Topical Change Detection in Documents via Embeddings of Long Sequences

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03619v1
• Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 12:09:37 GMT
• Title: Topical Change Detection in Documents via Embeddings of Long Sequences
• Authors: Dennis Aumiller, Satya Almasian, Sebastian Lackner and Michael Gertz
• Abstract summary: We formulate the task of text segmentation as an independent supervised prediction task. By fine-tuning on paragraphs of similar sections, we are able to show that learned features encode topic information. Unlike previous approaches, which mostly operate on sentence-level, we consistently use a broader context.
• Score: 4.13878392637062
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In a longer document, the topic often slightly shifts from one passage to the next, where topic boundaries are usually indicated by semantically coherent segments. Discovering this latent structure in a document improves the readability and is essential for passage retrieval and summarization tasks. We formulate the task of text segmentation as an independent supervised prediction task, making it suitable to train on Transformer-based language models. By fine-tuning on paragraphs of similar sections, we are able to show that learned features encode topic information, which can be used to find the section boundaries and divide the text into coherent segments. Unlike previous approaches, which mostly operate on sentence-level, we consistently use a broader context of an entire paragraph and assume topical independence of preceeding and succeeding text. We lastly introduce a novel large-scale dataset constructed from online Terms-of-Service documents, on which we compare against various traditional and deep learning baselines, showing significantly better performance of Transformer-based methods.

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