Inter-Weighted Alignment Network for Sentence Pair Modeling

Gehui Shen, Yunlun Yang, Zhi-Hong Deng


Abstract
Sentence pair modeling is a crucial problem in the field of natural language processing. In this paper, we propose a model to measure the similarity of a sentence pair focusing on the interaction information. We utilize the word level similarity matrix to discover fine-grained alignment of two sentences. It should be emphasized that each word in a sentence has a different importance from the perspective of semantic composition, so we exploit two novel and efficient strategies to explicitly calculate a weight for each word. Although the proposed model only use a sequential LSTM for sentence modeling without any external resource such as syntactic parser tree and additional lexicon features, experimental results show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on three datasets of two tasks.
Anthology ID:
D17-1122
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
Venue:
EMNLP
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1179–1189
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D17-1122
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1122
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Gehui Shen, Yunlun Yang, and Zhi-Hong Deng. 2017. Inter-Weighted Alignment Network for Sentence Pair Modeling. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1179–1189, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Inter-Weighted Alignment Network for Sentence Pair Modeling (Shen et al., EMNLP 2017)
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