Interactive Attention for Semantic Text Matching
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Semantic text matching, which matches a target text to a source text, is a general problem in many domains like information retrieval, question answering, and recommendation. There are several challenges for this problem, such as semantic gaps between words, implicit matching, and mismatch due to out-of-vocabulary or low-frequency words, etc. Most existing studies made great efforts to overcome these challenges by learning good representations for different text pieces or operating on global matching signals to get the matching score. However, they did not learn the local fine-grained interactive information for a specific source and target pair. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive attention model for semantic text matching, which learns new representations for source and target texts through interactive attention via global matching matrix and updates local fine-grained relevance between source and target. Our model could enrich the representations of source and target objects by adopting global relevance and learned local fine-grained relevance. The enriched representations of source and target encode global relevance and local relevance of each other, therefore, could empower the semantic match of texts. We conduct empirical evaluations of our model with three applications including biomedical literature retrieval, tweet and news linking, and factoid question answering. Experimental results on three data sets demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms competitive baseline methods.
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