Robust Text Clustering with Graph and Textual Adversarial Learning
Yongming Liang, Tian Tian, Kaifu Jin, Xiaoyu Yang, Yuefei Lv, Xi Zhang · 2020
Text clustering is a fundamental task that finds groups of similar texts in the corpus. Deep learning based models can capture the semantic and syntactic information in local word sequences to represent the texts but may ignore global text structures in the corpus. Recently, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in many applications, which may facilitate the text clustering task by exploiting the graph structures between texts via words and phrases. However, GCNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, e.g., small perturbations in graph structures and node attributes lead to poor performance. To address this issue, we propose a Robust Text Clustering (RTC) approach which consists of both autoencoder and GCN modules to exploit the local text features and global text structures respectively in one unified framework. We generate two types of adversarial perturbations targeting text structure and graph structure, and develop an adversarial training method to improve the robustness and generalization of the RTC framework. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposal in text clustering.