Character-level Convolutional Neural Network for Sentence Paraphrase Detection

This paper reports on the results of an experimental study on the application of characterlevel embeddings and basic convolutional neural network to the shared task of sentence paraphrase detection in Russian. The approach was tested in Task#2 standard run and offered competitive results (72.74% accuracy against the test set). This approach is compared against a word-level convolutional neural network for the same task.