Alternate Uses for Domain Adaptation and Neural Machine Translation
Recent advances in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) have had ripple effects in other areas of NLP. The advances I am concerned with in this talk have to do with using NMT sentence encodings in downstream NLP tasks. After verifying an experiment where Wang et al. (2017) used this technique for sentence selection, I would now like to use this approach for paraphrase identification. In this talk, I will discuss Wang et al.’s experiment, my reimplementation, and my plans for integrating similar approaches for augmenting data used in the Virtual Patient project.