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Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers with Weak Supervision

by fitzwatermellow on 11/2/16, 1:02 PM with 8 comments

• by RMarcus on 11/2/16, 3:43 PM

  I know that the field of deep learning / machine learning generally moves too fast for researchers to target conferences or journals, but several of the citations in the PDF of this article are missing (LaTeX inserted [?]).

  (GRU, in case anyone is wondering, stands for "gated recurrent unit" and is a building block of standard LSTMs)

  EDIT: now that I've finished the paper, I've realized that the citations are straight-up missing. That's no good, but I'm sure the authors just messed up the arxiv upload. If OP knows them, they should let them know... failing to include any citations at all is a quick way to decrease the credibility of an article.

• by crazydonkey200 on 11/3/16, 1:36 AM

  Hi, I am Chen Liang, the first author of the paper. Thanks for pointing out the Latex problem and sorry for the inconvenience.

  We are trying to fix the Latex problem and submit a replacement to ArXiv soon. In the meantime, we hosted the PDF version of the paper on another link:

  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chen_Liang14/publicatio...

  Thanks and look forward to your feedbacks and suggestions :)

• by chewxy on 11/2/16, 8:46 PM

  Interesting. It wasn't until the end of the paper and re-read the top that I noticed "Liang" isn't actually Percy Liang (with whom Berant has collaborated a lot in the past)