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Improving Cross-Lingual Reading Comprehension with Self-Training

Computation and Language 2021-05-11 v1

Abstract

Substantial improvements have been made in machine reading comprehension, where the machine answers questions based on a given context. Current state-of-the-art models even surpass human performance on several benchmarks. However, their abilities in the cross-lingual scenario are still to be explored. Previous works have revealed the abilities of pre-trained multilingual models for zero-shot cross-lingual reading comprehension. In this paper, we further utilized unlabeled data to improve the performance. The model is first supervised-trained on source language corpus, and then self-trained with unlabeled target language data. The experiment results showed improvements for all languages, and we also analyzed how self-training benefits cross-lingual reading comprehension in qualitative aspects.

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@article{arxiv.2105.03627,
  title  = {Improving Cross-Lingual Reading Comprehension with Self-Training},
  author = {Wei-Cheng Huang and Chien-yu Huang and Hung-yi Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03627},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures

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