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In this paper, we focus on task-specific question answering (QA). To this end, we introduce a method for generating exhaustive and high-quality training data, which allows us to train compact (e.g., run on a mobile device), task-specific QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hai X. Pham , Isma Hadji , Xinnuo Xu , Ziedune Degutyte , Jay Rainey , Evangelos Kazakos , Afsaneh Fazly , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

We propose a recurrent neural model that generates natural-language questions from documents, conditioned on answers. We show how to train the model using a combination of supervised and reinforcement learning. After teacher forcing for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Xingdi Yuan , Tong Wang , Caglar Gulcehre , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Sandeep Subramanian , Saizheng Zhang , Adam Trischler

A question answering (QA) system is a type of conversational AI that generates natural language answers to questions posed by human users. QA systems often form the backbone of interactive dialogue systems, and have been studied extensively…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Aakash Bansal , Zachary Eberhart , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

Recent studies show that sentence-level extractive QA, i.e., based on Answer Sentence Selection (AS2), is outperformed by Generation-based QA (GenQA) models, which generate answers using the top-k answer sentences ranked by AS2 models (a la…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Matteo Gabburo , Siddhant Garg , Rik Koncel-Kedziorski , Alessandro Moschitti

Machine comprehension question answering, which finds an answer to the question given a passage, involves high-level reasoning processes of understanding and tracking the relevant contents across various semantic units such as words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Minjeong Kim , David Keetae Park , Hyungjong Noh , Yeonsoo Lee , Jaegul Choo

Question and answer generation (QAG) consists of generating a set of question-answer pairs given a context (e.g. a paragraph). This task has a variety of applications, such as data augmentation for question answering (QA) models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Asahi Ushio , Fernando Alva-Manchego , Jose Camacho-Collados

Users frequently ask simple factoid questions for question answering (QA) systems, attenuating the impact of myriad recent works that support more complex questions. Prompting users with automatically generated suggested questions (SQs) can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Xusen Yin , Li Zhou , Kevin Small , Jonathan May

In this paper, we propose a method for incorporating world knowledge (linked entities and fine-grained entity types) into a neural question generation model. This world knowledge helps to encode additional information related to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Deepak Gupta , Kaheer Suleman , Mahmoud Adada , Andrew McNamara , Justin Harris

We study the problem of stock related question answering (StockQA): automatically generating answers to stock related questions, just like professional stock analysts providing action recommendations to stocks upon user's requests. StockQA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Zhaopeng Tu , Yong Jiang , Xiaojiang Liu , Lei Shu , Shuming Shi

Question answering has emerged as an intuitive way of querying structured data sources, and has attracted significant advancements over the years. In this article, we provide an overview over these recent advancements, focusing on neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Nilesh Chakraborty , Denis Lukovnikov , Gaurav Maheshwari , Priyansh Trivedi , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

We propose a neural network-based approach to automatically learn and classify natural language questions into its corresponding template using recursive neural networks. An obvious advantage of using neural networks is the elimination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ram G Athreya , Srividya Bansal , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Ricardo Usbeck

We propose a novel method for applying Transformer models to extractive question answering (QA) tasks. Recently, pretrained generative sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models have achieved great success in question answering. Contributing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Peng Xu , Davis Liang , Zhiheng Huang , Bing Xiang

A trending paradigm for multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is using a text-to-text framework. By unifying data in different tasks into a single text-to-text format, it trains a generative encoder-decoder model which is both powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Zixian Huang , Ao Wu , Jiaying Zhou , Yu Gu , Yue Zhao , Gong Cheng

Question answering (QA) is an important aspect of open-domain conversational agents, garnering specific research focus in the conversational QA (ConvQA) subtask. One notable limitation of recent ConvQA efforts is the response being answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ashutosh Baheti , Alan Ritter , Kevin Small

Question answering is an effective method for obtaining information from knowledge bases (KB). In this paper, we propose the Neural-Symbolic Complex Question Answering (NS-CQA) model, a data-efficient reinforcement learning framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yuncheng Hua , Yuan-Fang Li , Guilin Qi , Wei Wu , Jingyao Zhang , Daiqing Qi

We study the problem of joint question answering (QA) and question generation (QG) in this paper. Our intuition is that QA and QG have intrinsic connections and these two tasks could improve each other. On one side, the QA model judges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Tao Qin , Zhao Yan , Ming Zhou

Long-form question answering (LFQA) aims to generate a paragraph-length answer for a given question. While current work on LFQA using large pre-trained model for generation are effective at producing fluent and somewhat relevant content,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dan Su , Xiaoguang Li , Jindi Zhang , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Pascale Fung

This work focuses on answering single-relation factoid questions over Freebase. Each question can acquire the answer from a single fact of form (subject, predicate, object) in Freebase. This task, simple question answering (SimpleQA), can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Wenpeng Yin , Mo Yu , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou , Hinrich Schütze

Deep learning methods that extract answers for non-factoid questions from QA sites are seen as critical since they can assist users in reaching their next decisions through conversations with AI systems. The current methods, however, have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Makoto Nakatsuji

Generative commonsense question answering (GenCQA) is a task of automatically generating a list of answers given a question. The answer list is required to cover all reasonable answers. This presents the considerable challenges of producing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Zhifeng Li , Bowei Zou , Yifan Fan , Yu Hong