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Refining Raw Sentence Representations for Textual Entailment Recognition via Attention

Computation and Language 2017-07-13 v2

Abstract

In this paper we present the model used by the team Rivercorners for the 2017 RepEval shared task. First, our model separately encodes a pair of sentences into variable-length representations by using a bidirectional LSTM. Later, it creates fixed-length raw representations by means of simple aggregation functions, which are then refined using an attention mechanism. Finally it combines the refined representations of both sentences into a single vector to be used for classification. With this model we obtained test accuracies of 72.057% and 72.055% in the matched and mismatched evaluation tracks respectively, outperforming the LSTM baseline, and obtaining performances similar to a model that relies on shared information between sentences (ESIM). When using an ensemble both accuracies increased to 72.247% and 72.827% respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1707.03103,
  title  = {Refining Raw Sentence Representations for Textual Entailment Recognition via Attention},
  author = {Jorge A. Balazs and Edison Marrese-Taylor and Pablo Loyola and Yutaka Matsuo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.03103},
  year   = {2017}
}
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