We release our ELMo representations trained on many languages which helps us win the CoNLL 2018 shared task on Universal Dependencies Parsing according to LAS.
We use the same hyperparameter settings as Peters et al. (2018) for the biLM and the character CNN. We train their parameters on a set of 20-million-words data randomly sampled from the raw text released by the shared task (wikidump + common crawl) for each language. We largely based ourselves on the code of AllenNLP, but made the following changes:
The training of ELMo on one language takes roughly 3 days on an NVIDIA P100 GPU.
The models are hosted on the NLPL Vectors Repository.
ELMo for Simplified Chinese
We also provided simplified-Chinese ELMo. It was trained on xinhua proportion of Chinese gigawords-v5, which is different from the Wikipedia for traditional Chinese ELMo.
You need to install the package to use the embeddings with the following commends
python setup.py install
config_path
After unzip the model, you will find a JSON file ${lang}.model/config.json
.
Please change the "config_path"
field to the relative path to
the model configuration cnn_50_100_512_4096_sample.json
.
For example, if your ELMo model is zht.model/config.json
and your model configuration
is zht.model/cnn_50_100_512_4096_sample.json
, you need to change "config_path"
in zht.model/config.json
to cnn_50_100_512_4096_sample.json
.
If there is no configuration cnn_50_100_512_4096_sample.json
under ${lang}.model
,
you can copy the elmoformanylangs/configs/cnn_50_100_512_4096_sample.json
into ${lang}.model
,
or change the "config_path"
into elmoformanylangs/configs/cnn_50_100_512_4096_sample.json
.
See issue 27 for more details.
Prepare your input file in the conllu format, like
1 Sue Sue _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2 likes like _ _ _ _ _ _ _
3 coffee coffee _ _ _ _ _ _ _
4 and and _ _ _ _ _ _ _
5 Bill Bill _ _ _ _ _ _ _
6 tea tea _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Fileds should be separated by '\t'
. We only use the second column and space (' '
) is supported in
this field (for Vietnamese, a word can contains spaces).
Do remember tokenization!
When it's all set, run
$ python -m elmoformanylangs test \
--input_format conll \
--input /path/to/your/input \
--model /path/to/your/model \
--output_prefix /path/to/your/output \
--output_format hdf5 \
--output_layer -1
It will dump an hdf5 encoded dict
onto the disk, where the key is '\t'
separated
words in the sentence and the value is it's 3-layer averaged ELMo representation.
You can also dump the cnn encoded word with --output_layer 0
,
the first layer of the LsTM with --output_layer 1
and the second layer
of the LSTM with --output_layer 2
.
We are actively changing the interface to make it more adapted to the
AllenNLP ELMo and more programmatically friendly.
Thanks @voidism for contributing the API.
By using Embedder
python object, you can use ELMo into your own code like this:
from elmoformanylangs import Embedder
e = Embedder('/path/to/your/model/')
sents = [['今', '天', '天氣', '真', '好', '阿'],
['潮水', '退', '了', '就', '知道', '誰', '沒', '穿', '褲子']]
# the list of lists which store the sentences
# after segment if necessary.
e.sents2elmo(sents)
# will return a list of numpy arrays
# each with the shape=(seq_len, embedding_size)
class Embedder(model_dir='/path/to/your/model/', batch_size=64):
def sents2elmo(sents, output_layer=-1):
Please run
$ python -m elmoformanylangs.biLM train -h
to get more details about the ELMo training.
Here is an example for training English ELMo.
$ less data/en.raw
... (snip) ...
Notable alumni
Aris Kalafatis ( Acting )
Labour Party
They build an open nest in a tree hole , or man - made nest - boxes .
Legacy
... (snip) ...
$ python -m elmoformanylangs.biLM train \
--train_path data/en.raw \
--config_path elmoformanylangs/configs/cnn_50_100_512_4096_sample.json \
--model output/en \
--optimizer adam \
--lr 0.001 \
--lr_decay 0.8 \
--max_epoch 10 \
--max_sent_len 20 \
--max_vocab_size 150000 \
--min_count 3
However, we
need to add that the training process is not very stable.
In some cases, we end up with a loss of nan
. We are actively working on that and hopefully
improve it in the future.
If our ELMo gave you nice improvements, please cite us.
@InProceedings{che-EtAl:2018:K18-2,
author = {Che, Wanxiang and Liu, Yijia and Wang, Yuxuan and Zheng, Bo and Liu, Ting},
title = {Towards Better {UD} Parsing: Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings, Ensemble, and Treebank Concatenation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {CoNLL} 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies},
month = {October},
year = {2018},
address = {Brussels, Belgium},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
pages = {55--64},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/K18-2005}
}
Please also cite the NLPL Vectors Repository for hosting the models.
@InProceedings{fares-EtAl:2017:NoDaLiDa,
author = {Fares, Murhaf and Kutuzov, Andrey and Oepen, Stephan and Velldal, Erik},
title = {Word vectors, reuse, and replicability: Towards a community repository of large-text resources},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics},
month = {May},
year = {2017},
address = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
pages = {271--276},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-0237}
}