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Neural Classification of Linguistic Coherence using Long Short-Term Memories

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Given a set of sentences, a sentence orderer permutes the sentences in a way that the final text is linguistically coherent and semantically understandable. In this work, we focus on the binary and ternary tasks of ordering a pair of sentences regarding their linguistic coherence. We propose a methodology to automatically collect and annotate sentence ordering corpora in the news domain for English and German documents. Furthermore, we introduce a data-driven end-to-end neural architecture to learn the order of a pair of sentences and also recognize the cases where no ordering can be determined due to missing context.

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FIRE '16: Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation
December 2016
47 pages
ISBN:9781450348386
DOI:10.1145/3015157
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  1. Sentence ordering
  2. long short-term memory
  3. neural coherence classification

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FIRE '16: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation
December 8 - 10, 2016
Kolkata, India

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