Difficult samples

This section will run samples that contain problems that the BERT-based transformer will first solve. Finally, we will end with an intractable sample.

Let’s start with a complex sample that the BERT-based transformer can analyze.

Sample 4

Sample 4 takes us into more tricky SRL territory. The sample separates Alice from the verb liked, creating a long-term dependency that has to jump over whose husband went jogging every Sunday.

The sentence is:

Alice, whose husband went jogging every Sunday, liked to go to a dancing class in the meantime.

A human can isolate Alice and find the predicate:

Alice liked to go to a dancing class in the meantime.

Can the BERT model find the predicate like us?

Let’s find out by first running the code in SRL.ipynb:

prediction=predictor.predict(
    sentence="Alice, whose husband went jogging every Sunday, liked to go to a dancing class in the meantime."
)
head(prediction)

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