nlp

Syntax is the grammar. It describes the way to construct a correct sentence. For example, this water is triangular is syntactically correct.
Semantics relates to the meaning. this water is triangular does not mean anything, though the grammar is ok.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/209979/are-semantics-and-syntax-the-same

BERT can achieve high accuracy with small sample size (e.g. 1000): https://github.com/Socialbird-AILab/BERT-Classification-Tutorial/blob/master/pictures/Results.png

To simply get features (embedding) from BERT, this Keras package is easy to start with: https://pypi.org/project/keras-bert/

For fine-tuning with GPUs, this PyTorch version is handy (gradient accumulation is implemented): https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-pretrained-BERT

For people how have access to TPUs: https://github.com/google-research/bert

How to take advantage of different word embeddings in text classification task? Please check my Kaggle post: https://www.kaggle.com/c/quora-insincere-questions-classification/discussion/71778

A subset of this field is called meta-embedding. Here is a list of papers: https://github.com/Shujian2015/meta-embedding-paper-list

I found that just taking average of different embeddings is already powerful enough.

One thing to try is BERT: https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard

https://github.com/allenai/writing-code-for-nlp-research-emnlp2018/blob/master/writing_code_for_nlp_research.pdf

http://ruder.io/deep-learning-nlp-best-practices/