Chinese idiom understanding with transformer-based pretrained language models

• Main Author: TAN, Minghuan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: natural language processing; multiword expressions; Chinese idioms; Databases and Information Systems; East Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/410; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/etd_coll/article/1408/viewcontent/GPIS_AY2017_PhD_Minghuan_TAN.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this dissertation, I study the understanding of Chinese idioms using transformer-based pretrained language models. By ``understanding", I confine the topics to word embeddings learning, contextualized word representations learning, multiple-choice cloze-test reading comprehension and conditi...