@InProceedings{nie-bansal:2017:RepEval,
 author    = {Nie, Yixin  and  Bansal, Mohit},
 title     = {Shortcut-Stacked Sentence Encoders for Multi-Domain Inference},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP},
 year      = {2017}
}

Please ensure you have followed instructions in the main README doc before running any further commands in this doc. The commands in this doc assume you are under the root directory of the Castor repo.

SICK Dataset

To run SSE on the SICK dataset, use the following command. --dropout 0 is for mimicking the original paper, although adding dropout can improve results. If you have any problems running it check the Troubleshooting section below.

python -m sse sse.sick.model.castor --dataset sick --epochs 19 --dropout 0.5 --lr 0.0002 --regularization 1e-4

Implementation and config	Pearson's r	Spearman's p	MSE
PyTorch using above config	0.8812158	0.8292130938075161	0.22950001060962677

TrecQA Dataset

To run SSE on the TrecQA dataset, use the following command:

python -m sse sse.trecqa.model --dataset trecqa --epochs 5 --holistic-filters 200 --lr 0.00018 --regularization 0.0006405 --dropout 0

Implementation and config	map	mrr
PyTorch using above config

This are the TrecQA raw dataset results. The paper results are reported in Noise-Contrastive Estimation for Answer Selection with Deep Neural Networks.

WikiQA Dataset

You also need trec_eval for this dataset, similar to TrecQA.

Then, you can run:

python -m sse sse.wikiqa.model --epochs 10 --dataset wikiqa --epochs 5 --holistic-filters 100 --lr 0.00042 --regularization 0.0001683 --dropout 0

Implementation and config	map	mrr
PyTorch using above config

To see all options available, use

python -m sse --help

Optional Dependencies

To optionally visualize the learning curve during training, we make use of https://github.com/lanpa/tensorboard-pytorch to connect to TensorBoard. These projects require TensorFlow as a dependency, so you need to install TensorFlow before running the commands below. After these are installed, just add --tensorboard when running the training commands and open TensorBoard in the browser.

pip install tensorboardX
pip install tensorflow-tensorboard