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Replicated Siamese LSTM in Ticketing System for Similarity Learning and Retrieval in Asymmetric Texts

Information Retrieval 2018-07-10 v1 Computation and Language Machine Learning

Abstract

The goal of our industrial ticketing system is to retrieve a relevant solution for an input query, by matching with historical tickets stored in knowledge base. A query is comprised of subject and description, while a historical ticket consists of subject, description and solution. To retrieve a relevant solution, we use textual similarity paradigm to learn similarity in the query and historical tickets. The task is challenging due to significant term mismatch in the query and ticket pairs of asymmetric lengths, where subject is a short text but description and solution are multi-sentence texts. We present a novel Replicated Siamese LSTM model to learn similarity in asymmetric text pairs, that gives 22% and 7% gain (Accuracy@10) for retrieval task, respectively over unsupervised and supervised baselines. We also show that the topic and distributed semantic features for short and long texts improved both similarity learning and retrieval.

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@article{arxiv.1807.02854,
  title  = {Replicated Siamese LSTM in Ticketing System for Similarity Learning and Retrieval in Asymmetric Texts},
  author = {Pankaj Gupta and Bernt Andrassy and Hinrich Schütze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02854},
  year   = {2018}
}

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In the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018) workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-3)