One-shot and few-shot learning of word embeddings
Standard deep learning systems require thousands or millions of examples to learn a concept, and cannot integrate new concepts easily.By contrast, humans have an incredible ability to do one-shot or few-shot learning.For instance, from just hearing a word used in a sentence, humans can infer a great deal about it, by leveraging what the syntax and semantics of the surrounding words tells us.Here, we draw inspiration from this to highlight a simple technique by which deep recurrent networks can similarly exploit their prior knowledge to learn a useful representation for a new word from little data.This could make natural language processing systems much more flexible, by allowing them to learn continually from the new words they encounter.
We highlight a technique by which natural language processing systems can learn a new word from context, allowing them to be much more flexible.A technique for exploiting prior knowledge to learn embedding representations for new words with minimal data.