@inproceedings{xu-etal-2019-cross,
    title = "A Cross-Domain Transferable Neural Coherence Model",
    author = "Xu, Peng  and
      Saghir, Hamidreza  and
      Kang, Jin Sung  and
      Long, Teng  and
      Bose, Avishek Joey  and
      Cao, Yanshuai  and
      Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit",
    editor = "Korhonen, Anna  and
      Traum, David  and
      M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'i}s",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/P19-1067/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1067",
    pages = "678--687",
    abstract = "Coherence is an important aspect of text quality and is crucial for ensuring its readability. One important limitation of existing coherence models is that training on one domain does not easily generalize to unseen categories of text. Previous work advocates for generative models for cross-domain generalization, because for discriminative models, the space of incoherent sentence orderings to discriminate against during training is prohibitively large. In this work, we propose a local discriminative neural model with a much smaller negative sampling space that can efficiently learn against incorrect orderings. The proposed coherence model is simple in structure, yet it significantly outperforms previous state-of-art methods on a standard benchmark dataset on the Wall Street Journal corpus, as well as in multiple new challenging settings of transfer to unseen categories of discourse on Wikipedia articles."
}