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Natural Language Inference by Tree-Based Convolution and Heuristic Matching

28 Dec 2015ACL 2016 8arXiv:1512.08422archive 2025-07-28

Lili Mou, Rui Men, Ge Li, Yan Xu, Lu Zhang, Rui Yan, Zhi Jin

In this paper, we propose the TBCNN-pair model to recognize entailment and contradiction between two sentences. In our model, a tree-based convolutional neural network (TBCNN) captures sentence-level semantics; then heuristic matching layers like concatenation, element-wise product/difference combine the information in individual sentences. Experimental results show that our model outperforms existing sentence encoding-based approaches by a large margin.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Natural Language Inference SNLI 300D Tree-based CNN encoders % Test Accuracy 82.1 #87 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 300D Tree-based CNN encoders % Train Accuracy 83.3 #87 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 300D Tree-based CNN encoders Parameters 3.5m #87 of 98 Archive leaderboard report

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