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Semantic-Unit-Based Dilated Convolution for Multi-Label Text Classification

26 Aug 2018EMNLP 2018 10arXiv:1808.08561archive 2025-07-28

Junyang Lin, Qi Su, Pengcheng Yang, Shuming Ma, Xu sun

We propose a novel model for multi-label text classification, which is based on sequence-to-sequence learning. The model generates higher-level semantic unit representations with multi-level dilated convolution as well as a corresponding hybrid attention mechanism that extracts both the information at the word-level and the level of the semantic unit. Our designed dilated convolution effectively reduces dimension and supports an exponential expansion of receptive fields without loss of local information, and the attention-over-attention mechanism is able to capture more summary relevant information from the source context. Results of our experiments show that the proposed model has significant advantages over the baseline models on the dataset RCV1-V2 and Ren-CECps, and our analysis demonstrates that our model is competitive to the deterministic hierarchical models and it is more robust to classifying low-frequency labels.

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ClassificationGeneral ClassificationMulti Label Text ClassificationMulti-Label Text ClassificationText Classificationtext-classification

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