Exploiting Syntactic and Semantic Information for Textual Similarity Estimation

Jiajia Luo, Hongtao Shan, Gaoyu Zhang, George Yuan, Shuyi Zhang, Fengting Yan and Zhiwei Li

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021, vol. 2021, 1-12

Abstract:

The textual similarity task, which measures the similarity between two text pieces, has recently received much attention in the natural language processing (NLP) domain. However, due to the vagueness and diversity of language expression, only considering semantic or syntactic features, respectively, may cause the loss of critical textual knowledge. This paper proposes a new type of structure tree for sentence representation, which exploits both syntactic (structural) and semantic information known as the weight vector dependency tree (WVD-tree). WVD-tree comprises structure trees with syntactic information along with word vectors representing semantic information of the sentences. Further, Gaussian attention weight is proposed for better capturing important semantic features of sentences. Meanwhile, we design an enhanced tree kernel to calculate the common parts between two structures for similarity judgment. Finally, WVD-tree is tested on widely used semantic textual similarity tasks. The experimental results prove that WVD-tree can effectively improve the accuracy of sentence similarity judgments.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1155/2021/4186750

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