Friendly hello - pingback about punctuator2

[colinskow]

WOW! I never would have thought to try a Conv1D model. 92% precision is impressive. Although you are using binary punctuation (yes or no) verses 8 categories. I'll try this model out in addition to my other experiments (such as using POS tags).

How many epochs did it take to get those results?

[colinskow]

This is very promising. I plugged this rough architecture into EuroParl with 8 punctuation categories and am getting 83% precision, 48% recall after just 5 epochs. It is training 50x faster than @ottokart's model -- which gives me freedom to experiment and get results much faster. I'll post the results after some experimenting.

[ottokart]

Hi!

that's definitely very interesting, thanks for sharing! 50x speedup is really impressive.
Do you include the no-punct category in your precision/recall/f-score computations?
If so, then what are the scores without no-punct?

Best,
Ottokar

[colinskow]

Hi Ottokar,

I am using the TensorFlow Estimator API since it is very efficient and designed to take models into large-scale distributed production.

It works well with large volumes of static data. Training went perfectly. But I am running into an issue since predicting punctuation needs to be done one line at a time since we are using EOS tokens from the previous results to partition.

I need to figure out how to create an input_fn for estimator.predict which will accept one line at a time asynchronously.

I've done some manual testing and results are very promising...

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[ottokart]

This looks very nice indeed.

[vackosar]

I didn't measure f-scores without no-punct. I am very sceptical regarding the precision of the app.

BTW, if you like the project you can link back to it in your readme.

[colinskow]

I got it working (after hacking the TensorFlow prediction function)!!!

PUNCTUATION	PRECISION	RECALL	F-SCORE
,COMMA	58.2	62.1	60.1
.PERIOD	73.0	59.4	65.5
?QUESTIONMARK	58.9	11.2	18.9
!EXCLAMATIONMARK	75.0	8.8	15.7
:COLON	53.4	25.0	34.1
;SEMICOLON	46.1	10.7	17.4
-DASH	56.9	9.7	16.6
Overall	63.7	57.6	60.5

It doesn't reach the full accuracy of your model, but still quite impressive for training 40-50x faster. It peaked at about 17 epochs (a few hours on my CPU) but I didn't have early stopping on and lost the checkpoint (peak precision was a few percent higher). There's also definite room for improvement by tuning hyper-parameters.

[ottokart]

@vackosar There's and alternatives section in the readme now that refers to your work as well.

[nshmyrev]

The problem is that the precision/recall calculation in keras-punctuator is simply wrong. The real numbers are much lower and thats why you get impression it trains faster. The overall approach with CNN is about the same as CNN-2A from X. Che, C. Wang, H. Yang, and C. Meinel, “Punctuation predic- tion for unsegmented transcript based on word vector" paper also referenced in punctuator2 paper and the numbers match the results in the punctuator2 paper table 2 (about 54% overall f-score instead of 64% for punctuator2)

[vackosar]

I would definitely like to fix the precision/recall calculation. I agree that there is obviously something wrong with it.
On the other hand the model does seem to converge faster to it's best possible result - which is worse than with the other network.

[vackosar]

@nshmyrev interesting article about RNN vs Feed Forward http://www.offconvex.org/2018/07/27/approximating-recurrent/

[nshmyrev]

@vackosar this article has multiple factual mistakes and misinterpretations. For example take:

Upon publication, the feed-forward, autoregressive WaveNet was a substantial improvement over LSTM-RNN parametric models.

Wavenet is a different codec operated on sample-by-sample basis thats why it got more quality than previous vocoder-based architectures, they do not compare apples to apples here.

On the Billion Word Benchmark, an intriguing Google Technical Report suggests an LSTM n-gram model with n=13 words of memory is as good as an LSTM with arbitrary context.

Actually perplexity difference is significant. 46 vs 43 is a meaningful difference in many applications.

And so forth.