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Science Question Answering using Instructional Materials

Computation and Language 2016-04-06 v2 Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval Machine Learning

Abstract

We provide a solution for elementary science test using instructional materials. We posit that there is a hidden structure that explains the correctness of an answer given the question and instructional materials and present a unified max-margin framework that learns to find these hidden structures (given a corpus of question-answer pairs and instructional materials), and uses what it learns to answer novel elementary science questions. Our evaluation shows that our framework outperforms several strong baselines.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.04375,
  title  = {Science Question Answering using Instructional Materials},
  author = {Mrinmaya Sachan and Avinava Dubey and Eric P. Xing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04375},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Corrected that the science QA dataset is NOT freely available

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