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Speed Reading: Learning to Read ForBackward via Shuttle

1 Oct 2018EMNLP 2018 10archive 2025-07-28

Tsu-Jui Fu, Wei-Yun Ma

We present LSTM-Shuttle, which applies human speed reading techniques to natural language processing tasks for accurate and efficient comprehension. In contrast to previous work, LSTM-Shuttle not only reads shuttling forward but also goes back. Shuttling forward enables high efficiency, and going backward gives the model a chance to recover lost information, ensuring better prediction. We evaluate LSTM-Shuttle on sentiment analysis, news classification, and cloze on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, AG, and Children{'}s Book Test datasets. We show that LSTM-Shuttle predicts both better and more quickly. To demonstrate how LSTM-Shuttle actually behaves, we also analyze the shuttling operation and present a case study.

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Document ClassificationDocument SummarizationGeneral ClassificationMachine TranslationNamed Entity Recognition (NER)News ClassificationPart-Of-Speech TaggingQuestion AnsweringReading ComprehensionSentiment Analysis

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