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Named Entity Recognition Tool
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Why LSTM's forget gate are not used? #17

Closed chqiwang closed 8 years ago

chqiwang commented 8 years ago

Hi! @glample ,why LSTM's forget gate are not used? Will the forget gate hurt the performance? Any explanation on that?

glample commented 8 years ago

Hello, This small modification reduces the number of parameters, and makes the training a little bit faster. However, I didn't observe significant differences of scores with and without it.