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Sentence-State LSTM for Text Representation

7 May 2018ACL 2018 7arXiv:1805.02474archive 2025-07-28

Yue Zhang, Qi Liu, Linfeng Song

Bi-directional LSTMs are a powerful tool for text representation. On the other hand, they have been shown to suffer various limitations due to their sequential nature. We investigate an alternative LSTM structure for encoding text, which consists of a parallel state for each word. Recurrent steps are used to perform local and global information exchange between words simultaneously, rather than incremental reading of a sequence of words. Results on various classification and sequence labelling benchmarks show that the proposed model has strong representation power, giving highly competitive performances compared to stacked BiLSTM models with similar parameter numbers.

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General ClassificationNamed Entity Recognition (NER)Part-Of-Speech TaggingSentenceSentiment AnalysisText Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Named Entity Recognition (NER) CoNLL 2003 (English) S-LSTM F1 91.57 #59 of 73 Archive leaderboard report
Part-Of-Speech Tagging Penn Treebank S-LSTM Accuracy 97.55 #12 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Sentiment Analysis IMDb S-LSTM Accuracy 87.15 #44 of 49 Archive leaderboard report
Sentiment Analysis MR S-LSTM Accuracy 76.2 #16 of 19 Archive leaderboard report

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BiLSTMLSTMSigmoid ActivationTanh Activation

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