Select, Extract and Generate: Neural Keyphrase Generation with Layer-wise Coverage Attention

Wasi Ahmad, Xiao Bai, Soomin Lee, Kai-Wei Chang


Abstract
Natural language processing techniques have demonstrated promising results in keyphrase generation. However, one of the major challenges in neural keyphrase generation is processing long documents using deep neural networks. Generally, documents are truncated before given as inputs to neural networks. Consequently, the models may miss essential points conveyed in the target document. To overcome this limitation, we propose SEG-Net, a neural keyphrase generation model that is composed of two major components, (1) a selector that selects the salient sentences in a document and (2) an extractor-generator that jointly extracts and generates keyphrases from the selected sentences. SEG-Net uses Transformer, a self-attentive architecture, as the basic building block with a novel layer-wise coverage attention to summarize most of the points discussed in the document. The experimental results on seven keyphrase generation benchmarks from scientific and web documents demonstrate that SEG-Net outperforms the state-of-the-art neural generative methods by a large margin.
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2021.acl-long.111
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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August
Year:
2021
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Online
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Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
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ACL | IJCNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1389–1404
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.111
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.111
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Wasi Ahmad, Xiao Bai, Soomin Lee, and Kai-Wei Chang. 2021. Select, Extract and Generate: Neural Keyphrase Generation with Layer-wise Coverage Attention. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1389–1404, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Select, Extract and Generate: Neural Keyphrase Generation with Layer-wise Coverage Attention (Ahmad et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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