Matching Article Pairs with Graphical Decomposition and Convolutions

Bang Liu, Di Niu, Haojie Wei, Jinghong Lin, Yancheng He, Kunfeng Lai, Yu Xu


Abstract
Identifying the relationship between two articles, e.g., whether two articles published from different sources describe the same breaking news, is critical to many document understanding tasks. Existing approaches for modeling and matching sentence pairs do not perform well in matching longer documents, which embody more complex interactions between the enclosed entities than a sentence does. To model article pairs, we propose the Concept Interaction Graph to represent an article as a graph of concepts. We then match a pair of articles by comparing the sentences that enclose the same concept vertex through a series of encoding techniques, and aggregate the matching signals through a graph convolutional network. To facilitate the evaluation of long article matching, we have created two datasets, each consisting of about 30K pairs of breaking news articles covering diverse topics in the open domain. Extensive evaluations of the proposed methods on the two datasets demonstrate significant improvements over a wide range of state-of-the-art methods for natural language matching.
Anthology ID:
P19-1632
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
6284–6294
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1632
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1632
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Bang Liu, Di Niu, Haojie Wei, Jinghong Lin, Yancheng He, Kunfeng Lai, and Yu Xu. 2019. Matching Article Pairs with Graphical Decomposition and Convolutions. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 6284–6294, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Matching Article Pairs with Graphical Decomposition and Convolutions (Liu et al., ACL 2019)
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 BangLiu/ArticlePairMatching