A Neural Local Coherence Model

Dat Tien Nguyen, Shafiq Joty


Abstract
We propose a local coherence model based on a convolutional neural network that operates over the entity grid representation of a text. The model captures long range entity transitions along with entity-specific features without loosing generalization, thanks to the power of distributed representation. We present a pairwise ranking method to train the model in an end-to-end fashion on a task and learn task-specific high level features. Our evaluation on three different coherence assessment tasks demonstrates that our model achieves state of the art results outperforming existing models by a good margin.
Anthology ID:
P17-1121
Volume:
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2017
Address:
Vancouver, Canada
Editors:
Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1320–1330
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P17-1121
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P17-1121
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Dat Tien Nguyen and Shafiq Joty. 2017. A Neural Local Coherence Model. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1320–1330, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Neural Local Coherence Model (Tien Nguyen & Joty, ACL 2017)
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Code
 datienguyen/cnn_coherence