Joint Verification-Identification in end-to-end Multi-Scale CNN Framework for Topic Identification

Abstract

We present an end-to-end multi-scale Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) framework for topic identification (topic ID). In this work, we examined multi -scale CNN for classification using raw text input. Topical word embeddings are learnt at multiple scales using parallel convolutional layers. A technique to integrate verification and identification objectives is examined to improve topic ID performance. With this approach, we achieved significant improvement in identification task. We evaluated our framework on two contrasting datasets: 20 newsgroups and Fisher. We obtained 92.93% accuracy on Fisher and 86.12% on 20 newsgroups, which to our know ledge are the best published results on these datasets at the moment.