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BAG: Bi-directional Attention Entity Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-hop Reasoning Question Answering

Computation and Language 2019-04-11 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Multi-hop reasoning question answering requires deep comprehension of relationships between various documents and queries. We propose a Bi-directional Attention Entity Graph Convolutional Network (BAG), leveraging relationships between nodes in an entity graph and attention information between a query and the entity graph, to solve this task. Graph convolutional networks are used to obtain a relation-aware representation of nodes for entity graphs built from documents with multi-level features. Bidirectional attention is then applied on graphs and queries to generate a query-aware nodes representation, which will be used for the final prediction. Experimental evaluation shows BAG achieves state-of-the-art accuracy performance on the QAngaroo WIKIHOP dataset.

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@article{arxiv.1904.04969,
  title  = {BAG: Bi-directional Attention Entity Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-hop Reasoning Question Answering},
  author = {Yu Cao and Meng Fang and Dacheng Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04969},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure, accepted short paper on NAACL-HLT 2019

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