Semantic Document Distance Measures and Unsupervised Document Revision Detection

Xiaofeng Zhu, Diego Klabjan, Patrick Bless


Abstract
In this paper, we model the document revision detection problem as a minimum cost branching problem that relies on computing document distances. Furthermore, we propose two new document distance measures, word vector-based Dynamic Time Warping (wDTW) and word vector-based Tree Edit Distance (wTED). Our revision detection system is designed for a large scale corpus and implemented in Apache Spark. We demonstrate that our system can more precisely detect revisions than state-of-the-art methods by utilizing the Wikipedia revision dumps and simulated data sets.
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I17-1095
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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947–956
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https://aclanthology.org/I17-1095
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Xiaofeng Zhu, Diego Klabjan, and Patrick Bless. 2017. Semantic Document Distance Measures and Unsupervised Document Revision Detection. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 947–956, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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Semantic Document Distance Measures and Unsupervised Document Revision Detection (Zhu et al., IJCNLP 2017)
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 XiaofengZhu/wDTW-wTED