%0 Generic %1 boleda2017living %A Boleda, Gemma %A Padó, Sebastian %A Pham, Nghia The %A Baroni, Marco %D 2017 %K coreference kallimachos %T Living a discrete life in a continuous world: Reference with distributed representations %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01815 %X Reference is the crucial property of language that allows us to connect linguistic expressions to the world. Modeling it requires handling both continuous and discrete aspects of meaning. Data-driven models excel at the former, but struggle with the latter, and the reverse is true for symbolic models. We propose a fully data-driven, end-to-end trainable model that, while operating on continuous multimodal representations, learns to organize them into a discrete-like entity library. We also introduce a referential task to test it, cross-modal tracking. Our model beats standard neural network architectures, but is outperformed by some parametrizations of Memory Networks, another model with external memory.

@misc{boleda2017living, abstract = {Reference is the crucial property of language that allows us to connect linguistic expressions to the world. Modeling it requires handling both continuous and discrete aspects of meaning. Data-driven models excel at the former, but struggle with the latter, and the reverse is true for symbolic models. We propose a fully data-driven, end-to-end trainable model that, while operating on continuous multimodal representations, learns to organize them into a discrete-like entity library. We also introduce a referential task to test it, cross-modal tracking. Our model beats standard neural network architectures, but is outperformed by some parametrizations of Memory Networks, another model with external memory.}, added-at = {2017-08-17T14:13:14.000+0200}, author = {Boleda, Gemma and Padó, Sebastian and Pham, Nghia The and Baroni, Marco}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/297626df8388d4f7f1d932c7e4585d821/albinzehe}, description = {[1702.01815] Living a discrete life in a continuous world: Reference with distributed representations}, interhash = {4eafe4ef0b92377e9e1b83088df53a79}, intrahash = {97626df8388d4f7f1d932c7e4585d821}, keywords = {coreference kallimachos}, note = {cite arxiv:1702.01815Comment: Under review at ACL 2017. 6 pages, 1 figure}, timestamp = {2017-08-17T14:13:14.000+0200}, title = {Living a discrete life in a continuous world: Reference with distributed representations}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01815}, year = 2017 }