A Deep Relevance Model for Zero-Shot Document Filtering

Chenliang Li, Wei Zhou, Feng Ji, Yu Duan, Haiqing Chen


Abstract
In the era of big data, focused analysis for diverse topics with a short response time becomes an urgent demand. As a fundamental task, information filtering therefore becomes a critical necessity. In this paper, we propose a novel deep relevance model for zero-shot document filtering, named DAZER. DAZER estimates the relevance between a document and a category by taking a small set of seed words relevant to the category. With pre-trained word embeddings from a large external corpus, DAZER is devised to extract the relevance signals by modeling the hidden feature interactions in the word embedding space. The relevance signals are extracted through a gated convolutional process. The gate mechanism controls which convolution filters output the relevance signals in a category dependent manner. Experiments on two document collections of two different tasks (i.e., topic categorization and sentiment analysis) demonstrate that DAZER significantly outperforms the existing alternative solutions, including the state-of-the-art deep relevance ranking models.
Anthology ID:
P18-1214
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2300–2310
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1214
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-1214
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Cite (ACL):
Chenliang Li, Wei Zhou, Feng Ji, Yu Duan, and Haiqing Chen. 2018. A Deep Relevance Model for Zero-Shot Document Filtering. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2300–2310, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
A Deep Relevance Model for Zero-Shot Document Filtering (Li et al., ACL 2018)
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https://aclanthology.org/P18-1214.pdf
Poster:
 P18-1214.Poster.pdf
Code
 WHUIR/DAZER