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TechTexC: Classification of Technical Texts using Convolution and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory Network

Computation and Language 2020-12-22 v1

Abstract

This paper illustrates the details description of technical text classification system and its results that developed as a part of participation in the shared task TechDofication 2020. The shared task consists of two sub-tasks: (i) first task identify the coarse-grained technical domain of given text in a specified language and (ii) the second task classify a text of computer science domain into fine-grained sub-domains. A classification system (called 'TechTexC') is developed to perform the classification task using three techniques: convolution neural network (CNN), bidirectional long short term memory (BiLSTM) network, and combined CNN with BiLSTM. Results show that CNN with BiLSTM model outperforms the other techniques concerning task-1 of sub-tasks (a, b, c and g) and task-2a. This combined model obtained f1 scores of 82.63 (sub-task a), 81.95 (sub-task b), 82.39 (sub-task c), 84.37 (sub-task g), and 67.44 (task-2a) on the development dataset. Moreover, in the case of test set, the combined CNN with BiLSTM approach achieved that higher accuracy for the subtasks 1a (70.76%), 1b (79.97%), 1c (65.45%), 1g (49.23%) and 2a (70.14%).

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@article{arxiv.2012.11420,
  title  = {TechTexC: Classification of Technical Texts using Convolution and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory Network},
  author = {Omar Sharif and Eftekhar Hossain and Mohammed Moshiul Hoque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11420},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 tables, This paper is accepted and presented at 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2020)

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