@inproceedings{yang-etal-2019-simple,
    title = "Simple and Effective Text Matching with Richer Alignment Features",
    author = "Yang, Runqi  and
      Zhang, Jianhai  and
      Gao, Xing  and
      Ji, Feng  and
      Chen, Haiqing",
    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/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/P19-1465/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1465",
    pages = "4699--4709",
    abstract = "In this paper, we present a fast and strong neural approach for general purpose text matching applications. We explore what is sufficient to build a fast and well-performed text matching model and propose to keep three key features available for inter-sequence alignment: original point-wise features, previous aligned features, and contextual features while simplifying all the remaining components. We conduct experiments on four well-studied benchmark datasets across tasks of natural language inference, paraphrase identification and answer selection. The performance of our model is on par with the state-of-the-art on all datasets with much fewer parameters and the inference speed is at least 6 times faster compared with similarly performed ones."
}