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Conditioning LSTM Decoder and Bi-directional Attention Based Question Answering System

Computation and Language 2019-05-07 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

Applying neural-networks on Question Answering has gained increasing popularity in recent years. In this paper, I implemented a model with Bi-directional attention flow layer, connected with a Multi-layer LSTM encoder, connected with one start-index decoder and one conditioning end-index decoder. I introduce a new end-index decoder layer, conditioning on start-index output. The Experiment shows this has increased model performance by 15.16%. For prediction, I proposed a new smart-span equation, rewarding both short answer length and high probability in start-index and end-index, which further improved the prediction accuracy. The best single model achieves an F1 score of 73.97% and EM score of 64.95% on test set.

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@article{arxiv.1905.02019,
  title  = {Conditioning LSTM Decoder and Bi-directional Attention Based Question Answering System},
  author = {Heguang Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.02019},
  year   = {2019}
}

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7 pages, 7 figures

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