We consider the task of inferring is-a relationships from large text corpora. For this purpose, we propose a new method combining hyperbolic embeddings and Hearst patterns. This approach allows us to set appropriate constraints for inferring concept hierarchies from distributional contexts while also being able to predict missing is-a-relationships and to correct wrong extractions. Moreover -and in contrast with other methods -the hierarchical nature of hyperbolic space allows us to learn highly efficient representations and to improve the taxonomic consistency of the inferred hierarchies. Experimentally, we show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on several commonly-used benchmarks.

This paper describes Facebook AI's submission to the WAT 2019 Myanmar-English translation task (Nakazawa et al., 2019). Our baseline systems are BPE-based transformer models. We explore methods to leverage monolingual data to improve generalization, including self-training, back-translation and their combination. We further improve results by using noisy channel re-ranking and ensembling. We demonstrate that these techniques can significantly improve not only a system trained with additional monolingual data, but even the baseline system trained exclusively on the provided small parallel dataset. Our system ranks first in both directions according to human evaluation and BLEU, with a gain of over 8 BLEU points above the second best system.

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This secondary analysis of the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial uses a random forest–based analysis to assess whether clinically important heterogeneity exists in the risk of harm associated with intensive blood pressure treatment among adults with hypertension who smoke.

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