MultiGranCNN: An Architecture for General Matching of Text Chunks on Multiple Levels of Granularity

Wenpeng Yin and Hinrich Schütze


Abstract

We present MultiGranCNN, a general deep learning architecture for matching text chunks. MultiGranCNN supports multigranular comparability of representations: shorter sequences in one chunk can be directly compared to longer sequences in the other chunk. MultiGranCNN also contains a flexible and modularized match feature component that is easily adaptable to different types of chunk matching. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance of MultiGranCNN on clause coherence and paraphrase identification tasks.