Multi-Task Learning

This example is inspired by the classic paper Natural Language Processing (Almost) from Scratch by Collobert et al..

sentence chunks part_of_speech named_entities
San Francisco is very foggy B-NP I-NP B-VP B-ADJP I-ADJP NNP NNP VBZ RB JJ B-Loc I-Loc O O O
My dog likes eating sausage B-NP I-NP B-VP B-VP B-NP PRP NN VBZ VBG NN O O O O O
Brutus Killed Julius Caesar B-NP B-VP B-NP I-NP NNP VBD NNP NNP B-Per O B-Per I-Per
ludwig experiment \
--dataset nl_data.csv \
  --config config.yaml

With config.yaml:

input_features:
    -
        name: sentence
        type: sequence
        encoder: rnn
        cell: lstm
        bidirectional: true
        reduce_output: null

output_features:
    -
        name: chunks
        type: sequence
        decoder: tagger
    -
        name: part_of_speech
        type: sequence
        decoder: tagger
    -
        name: named_entities
        type: sequence
        decoder: tagger