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Question Dependent Recurrent Entity Network for Question Answering

Computation and Language 2017-10-09 v2

Abstract

Question Answering is a task which requires building models capable of providing answers to questions expressed in human language. Full question answering involves some form of reasoning ability. We introduce a neural network architecture for this task, which is a form of Memory NetworkMemory\ Network, that recognizes entities and their relations to answers through a focus attention mechanism. Our model is named Question Dependent Recurrent Entity NetworkQuestion\ Dependent\ Recurrent\ Entity\ Network and extends Recurrent Entity NetworkRecurrent\ Entity\ Network by exploiting aspects of the question during the memorization process. We validate the model on both synthetic and real datasets: the bAbIbAbI question answering dataset and the CNN & Daily NewsCNN\ \&\ Daily\ News reading comprehensionreading\ comprehension dataset. In our experiments, the models achieved a State-of-The-Art in the former and competitive results in the latter.

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@article{arxiv.1707.07922,
  title  = {Question Dependent Recurrent Entity Network for Question Answering},
  author = {Andrea Madotto and Giuseppe Attardi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07922},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages

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