Multi-View Domain Adapted Sentence Embeddings for Low-Resource Unsupervised Duplicate Question Detection

Nina Poerner, Hinrich Schütze


Abstract
We address the problem of Duplicate Question Detection (DQD) in low-resource domain-specific Community Question Answering forums. Our multi-view framework MV-DASE combines an ensemble of sentence encoders via Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis, using unlabeled data only. In our experiments, the ensemble includes generic and domain-specific averaged word embeddings, domain-finetuned BERT and the Universal Sentence Encoder. We evaluate MV-DASE on the CQADupStack corpus and on additional low-resource Stack Exchange forums. Combining the strengths of different encoders, we significantly outperform BM25, all single-view systems as well as a recent supervised domain-adversarial DQD method.
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D19-1173
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Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
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November
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2019
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Hong Kong, China
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Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1630–1641
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10.18653/v1/D19-1173
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Nina Poerner and Hinrich Schütze. 2019. Multi-View Domain Adapted Sentence Embeddings for Low-Resource Unsupervised Duplicate Question Detection. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 1630–1641, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Multi-View Domain Adapted Sentence Embeddings for Low-Resource Unsupervised Duplicate Question Detection (Poerner & Schütze, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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