This paper describes a method for using Generative Adversarial Networks to learn distributed representations of natural language documents. We propose a model that is based on the recently proposed Energy-Based GAN, but instead uses a Denoising Autoencoder as the discriminator network. Document representations are extracted from the hidden layer of the discriminator and evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Representations for documents are often created by using generative topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) @cite_12 . In LDA, documents consist of a mixture of topics, with each topic defining a probability distribution over the words in the vocabulary. Each document is therefore represented by a vector of mixture weights over its associated topics.
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Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) mining thematic structure of documents plays an important role in nature language processing and machine learning areas. However, the probability distribution from LDA only describes the statistical relationship of occurrences in the corpus and usually in practice, probability is not the best choice for feature representations. Recently, embedding methods have been proposed to represent words and documents by learning essential concepts and representations, such as Word2Vec and Doc2Vec. The embedded representations have shown more effectiveness than LDA-style representations in many tasks. In this paper, we propose the Topic2Vec approach which can learn topic representations in the same semantic vector space with words, as an alternative to probability. The experimental results show that Topic2Vec achieves interesting and meaningful results.