Challenge: Existing methods for sentence ordering are based on pairwise strategies.
Approach: They propose a topic-guided coherence modeling (TGCM) for sentence ordering that utilizes sentence vectors in a permutation-invariant manner.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models from various perspectives.

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Challenge: Recent supervised neural models have greatly promoted the development of topic segmentation, but the deeper relationship between coherence and topic segmenting is underexplored.
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Challenge: Topic models are evaluated for their ability to describe documents well (i.e. low perplexity) topic coherence is not optimized for and is only evaluated after training.
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Challenge: Existing work on coherence modeling has focused on integrating entity-based models.
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Challenge: Existing models for coherence modeling fail on harder tasks with more realistic application scenarios.
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Challenge: Existing methods for sentence ordering tasks rely on linguistic knowledge and are domain specific.
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