[NLPL Task Force (A)] [NLPL Board] Hosting of ELMo models

[Frankie Robertson]

Great! Thank you.
FrankieOn Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 20:06, Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
>
> dear frankie,
>
> thanks for making contact, and for the suggestion to inject these
> models into the NLPL vectors repository!
>
> i am taking this thread off the general ‘contact’ address, to spare
> the project steering group further traffic.
>
> the NLPL repository has been primarily designed and maintained by
> andrey kutuzov (copied) and myself.  i have posted an offer to host
> these models on the GitHub issue you mentioned, so i hope the original
> creators will find this possibility attractive and get back to us
> about one-time download, metadata, and such.
>
> best wishes, oe
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:49 PM Frankie Robertson
> <frankie.r.robertson at student.jyu.fi> wrote:
> >
> > Dear NLPL project management,
> >
> > I have been trying to use a pretrained ELMo language model/word
> > vectors in my work on word-sense disambiguation. They have been made
> > available by researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology at
> > https://github.com/HIT-SCIR/ELMoForManyLangs . As per
> > https://github.com/HIT-SCIR/ELMoForManyLangs/issues/5 -- there appears
> > to be some troubles with web hosting. I'm writing to see if this is
> > something NLPL might be able to help with, perhaps under the same
> > umbrella of the existing word vectors which you have made available.
> > As I understand these ELMo models are trained on the same CoNLL 17 raw
> > tokenized text. I have only been able to obtain the model for Finnish
> > successfully, so we would need to contact the authors to obtain the
> > rest.
> >
> > I suppose that long term it may be better to have a clean path to ELMo
> > word vectors based on the mainline AllenNLP code -- but perhaps simply
> > rehosting HIT's resources could be useful for people in the short
> > term?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Frankie Robertson