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Semantic Matching Algorithm for Legal Issues Based on BERT and Graph Convolution with Multi-granularity Features

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In recent years, pre-training models represented by BERT have shown amazing text semantic representation capabilities supported by large-scale corpus, and now have become one of the mainstream solutions for semantic matching tasks in legal Q&A systems. However, pre-training models generally do not set specific pre-training tasks in terms of syntactic information, but implicitly and incidentally learn in large-scale unsupervised, which does not make good use of syntactic information as an important factor for representing semantics. To address this problem, this paper proposes a multi-granularity feature semantic matching model based on BERT and graph convolution. The model first obtains syntactic features of sentences in the form of dependent syntactic trees using existing tools, and then fuses syntactic features with word features and sentence features of BERT using an attention mechanism and graph convolutional neural network to enhance the characterization of text semantics and make the model better for semantic matching tasks. Experimental results show that the algorithm achieves significant improvements in the semantic matching task and outperforms the five comparison methods in the DIAC2019 dataset. Compared to the baseline model Sentenct-BERT, the accuracy, precision, recall and F1 values are improved by 0.33%, 1.18%, 1.03% and 1.05% improvement.

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      ICCPR '23: Proceedings of the 2023 12th International Conference on Computing and Pattern Recognition
      October 2023
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      DOI:10.1145/3633637

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