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Is Sluice Resolution really just Question Answering?

Computation and Language 2021-06-01 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Sluice resolution is a problem where a system needs to output the corresponding antecedents of wh-ellipses. The antecedents are elided contents behind the wh-words but are implicitly referred to using contexts. Previous work frames sluice resolution as question answering where this setting outperforms all its preceding works by large margins. Ellipsis and questions are referentially dependent expressions (anaphoras) and retrieving the corresponding antecedents are like answering questions to output pieces of clarifying information. However, the task is not fully solved. Therefore, we want to further investigate what makes sluice resolution differ to question answering and fill in the error gaps. We also present some results using recent state-of-the-art question answering systems which improve the previous work (86.01 to 90.39 F1).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.14347,
  title  = {Is Sluice Resolution really just Question Answering?},
  author = {Peratham Wiriyathammabhum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.14347},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Extended Abstract at the The First Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language @ ACL-2021

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