Description
Natural Language Processing
1 Word Embeddings
In this section, we will use the same dataset as in our first homework on text classification. Specifically,
in that dataset, we have four different files:
• trn-reviews.txt: the Yelp reviews in the training set
• trn-labels.txt: the corresponding labels of the Yelp reviews in the training set
• dev-reviews.txt: the Yelp reviews in the development set
• dev-labels.txt: the corresponding labels of the Yelp reviews in the development set
We are going to use this dataset to construct word embeddings and use these embeddings to further
improve the classification performance
Preprocessing: convert all characters in both trn-reviews.txt and dev-reviews.txt into lowercases,
then use WordPunctTokenizer from NLTK to separate punctuation from words1
Use the pretrained word embeddings from GloVe to construct sentence representations. You can
download the pretrained word embeddings from
http://nlp.stanford.edu/data/glove.6B.zip
This pretrained word embeddings set contains 400K words with various embedding dimensions. For this
problem set, we only the 50-D embeddings.
For a given text, the simplest way of constructing a text representation is to compute the average of
all the word embeddings in this sentence. For example, the representation of I love coffee is
sI love coffee =
1
3
(vi + vlove + vcoffee) (1)
Following the same way, we can construct all the text representations in the training and development
sets.
1. (2 points) Use the text representations and the LogisticRegression as in homework 01 to build a
text classifier and report the classification accuracy on the development set. Please use the default
setting of the classifier.
1http://www.nltk.org/api/nltk.tokenize.html#nltk.tokenize.regexp.WordPunctTokenizer
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# Sentences # Tokens
Training 17,556 1,800,391
Development 1,841 188,963
Test 2,183 212,719
Table 1: Dataset statistics
2. (3 points) Recall that in homework 01, we use CountVectorizer to construct the feature vector for
each text as x. Now, with Eq. 1, we have another numeric form of the same text as s. A simple
way to get a richer representation is to concatenate these two numeric vectors together as
[s, x] (2)
Build another text classifier with the concatenated representations as inputs and report the classification accuracy on the development set. Please use the default setting of the functions LogisticRegression
and CountVectorizer.
3. (2 extra points) Please find the best hyper-parameter settings with the concatenated inputs and
report the corresponding accuracy on the development set.
2 Recurrent Neural Network Language Models
In this section, you are going to implement a RNN for language modeling. To be specific, it is a RNN
with LSTM units. As a starting point, you need to implement a very simple RNN with LSTM units, so
please read the instruction carefully!
For this project, we are going to use the wikitext-2 data for language modeling. I did some additional
pre-processing on this dataset, therefore it is not exactly the same as the one available online.
In the data files, there are four special tokens
• : special token for low-frequency words
• : special token for all the numbers
• : special token to indicate the beginning of a sentence
• : special token to indicate the end of a sentence
Here are some simple statistics about the dataset
The goal of this part includes
• learn to implement a simple RNN LM with LSTM units
• get some experience on tuning hyper-parameters for a better model
I recommend to use PyTorch for the all the implementation in this section.
1. (3 points) Please implement a simple RNN with LSTM units to meet the following requirements:
• Input and hidden dimensions: 32
• No mini-batch or mini-batch size is 1
• No truncation on sentence length, every token in a sentence must be read into the RNN LM
to compute a hidden state, except the last token
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• Use SGD with no momentum and no weight decay, you may want to norm clipping to make
sure you can train the model without being interrupted by gradient explosion
• Use single-layer LSTM
• Use nn.Embedding with default initialization for word embeddings
Please write the code into a Python file with name simple-rnnlm.py. Please follow the requirements strictly, otherwise you will lose some points for this question and your answers for the
following questions will be invalid. If you want to use some technique or a deep learning trick that
is not covered in the requirement, feel free to use it and explain it in your report.
2. (3 points) Perplexity. It should be computed on corpus level. For example, if a corpus has only
two sentences as following
, w1,1, . . . , w1,N1
,
, w2,1, . . . , w2,N2
,
To compute the perplexity, we need to compute the average of the log probabilities first as
avg =
1
N1 + 1 + N2 + 1
{log p(w1,1) + · · · + log p(w1,N1
) + log p()
+ log p(w2,1) + · · · + log p(w2,N2
) + log p()}
(3)
and then
Perplexity = e
−avg
. (4)
Please implement the function to compute perplexity as explained above. Submit the code with a
separate Python file named [computingID]-perplexity.py.
Also, report the perplexity numbers of the simple RNN LM (as in [computingID]-simple-rnnlm.py)
on the training and development datasets.
3. (3 points) Stacked LSTM. Based on your implementation in [computingID]-simple-rnnlm.py,
modify the model to use multi-layer LSTM (stacked LSTM). Based on the perplexity on the dev
data, you can tune the number of hidden layers n as a hyper-parameter to find a better model.
Here, 1 ≤ n ≤ 3. In your report, explain the following information
• the value of n in the better model
• perplexity number on the training data based the better model
• perplexity number on the dev data based on the better model
Submit your code with file name [computingID]-stackedlstm-rnnlm.py
4. (3 points) Optimization. Based on your implementation [computingID]-simple-rnnlm.py again,
choose different optimization methods (SGD with momentum, AdaGrad, etc.) to find a better
model. In your report, explain the following information
• the optimization method used in the better model
• perplexity number on the training data based the better model
• perplexity number on the dev data based on the better model
Submit your code with file name [computingID]-opt-rnnlm.py
5. (3 points) Model Size. Based on your implementation [computingID]-simple-rnnlm.py again,
choose different input/hidden dimensions. Suggested dimensions for both input and hidden are 32,
64, 128, 256. Try different combinations of input/hidden dimensions to find a better model. In
your report, explain the following information
• input/hidden dimensions used in the better model
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• perplexity number on the training data based the better model
• perplexity number on the dev data based on the better model
Submit your code with file name [computingID]-model-rnnlm.py
6. (3 points, extra) Mini-batch. Based on your implementation [computingID]-simple-rnnlm.py
again, modify this code to add the mini-batch function. Tune the mini-batch size b as {16, 24, 32, 64}
to see whether it makes a difference. In your report, explain the following information
• whether different mini-batch sizes make a difference. If the answer is yes, then
• the best batch size
• perplexity number on the training data based the better model
• perplexity number on the dev data based on the better model
Submit your code with file name [computingID]-minibatch-rnnlm.py
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