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In open-domain question answering, due to the ambiguity of questions, multiple plausible answers may exist. To provide feasible answers to an ambiguous question, one approach is to directly predict all valid answers, but this can struggle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Weiwei Sun , Hengyi Cai , Hongshen Chen , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

This paper is an empirical study of the distributed deep learning for question answering subtasks: answer selection and question classification. Comparison studies of SGD, MSGD, ADADELTA, ADAGRAD, ADAM/ADAMAX, RMSPROP, DOWNPOUR and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Minwei Feng , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

Self-training is a useful strategy for semi-supervised learning, leveraging raw texts for enhancing model performances. Traditional self-training methods depend on heuristics such as model confidence for instance selection, the manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Chenhua Chen , Yue Zhang

Relation linking is essential to enable question answering over knowledge bases. Although there are various efforts to improve relation linking performance, the current state-of-the-art methods do not achieve optimal results, therefore,…

This paper evaluates existing and newly proposed answer selection methods based on pre-trained word embeddings. Word embeddings are highly effective in various natural language processing tasks and their integration into traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Rishav Chakravarti , Jiri Navratil , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos

A compelling approach to complex question answering is to convert the question to a sequence of actions, which can then be executed on the knowledge base to yield the answer, aka the programmer-interpreter approach. Use similar training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yuncheng Hua , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari , Guilin Qi , Wei Wu

This work explores the application of deep learning, a machine learning technique that uses deep neural networks (DNN) in its core, to an automated theorem proving (ATP) problem. To this end, we construct a statistical model which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Taro Sekiyama , Kohei Suenaga

Question answering is an important and difficult task in the natural language processing domain, because many basic natural language processing tasks can be cast into a question answering task. Several deep neural network architectures have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Fenglong Ma , Radha Chitta , Saurabh Kataria , Jing Zhou , Palghat Ramesh , Tong Sun , Jing Gao

Intelligent and adaptive online education systems aim to make high-quality education available for a diverse range of students. However, existing systems usually depend on a pool of hand-made questions, limiting how fine-grained and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Megha Srivastava , Noah Goodman

Automatic question generation aims to generate questions from a text passage where the generated questions can be answered by certain sub-spans of the given passage. Traditional methods mainly use rigid heuristic rules to transform a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Qingyu Zhou , Nan Yang , Furu Wei , Chuanqi Tan , Hangbo Bao , Ming Zhou

This paper proposes a novel architecture to generate multi-hop answers to open domain questions that require information from texts and tables, using the Open Table-and-Text Question Answering dataset for validation and training. One of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Marcos M. José , Flávio N. Cação , Maria F. Ribeiro , Rafael M. Cheang , Paulo Pirozelli , Fabio G. Cozman

We introduce a new automatic evaluation method for speaker similarity assessment, that is consistent with human perceptual scores. Modern neural text-to-speech models require a vast amount of clean training data, which is why many solutions…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Deja Kamil , Sanchez Ariadna , Roth Julian , Cotescu Marius

Identifying semantically identical questions on, Question and Answering social media platforms like Quora is exceptionally significant to ensure that the quality and the quantity of content are presented to users, based on the intent of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Navedanjum Ansari , Rajesh Sharma

We apply a general deep learning framework to address the non-factoid question answering task. Our approach does not rely on any linguistic tools and can be applied to different languages or domains. Various architectures are presented and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Minwei Feng , Bing Xiang , Michael R. Glass , Lidan Wang , Bowen Zhou

Relational databases are valuable resources for learning novel and interesting relations and concepts. In order to constraint the search through the large space of candidate definitions, users must tune the algorithm by specifying a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Jose Picado , Arash Termehchy , Sudhanshu Pathak , Alan Fern , Praveen Ilango , Yunqiao Cai

Recently machine learning is being applied to almost every data domain one of which is Question Answering Systems (QAS). A typical Question Answering System is fairly an information retrieval system, which matches documents or text and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Muhammad Zain Amin , Noman Nadeem

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

An overarching goal of natural language processing is to enable machines to communicate seamlessly with humans. However, natural language can be ambiguous or unclear. In cases of uncertainty, humans engage in an interactive process known as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Julia White , Gabriel Poesia , Robert Hawkins , Dorsa Sadigh , Noah Goodman

Predicting the answer to a product-related question is an emerging field of research that recently attracted a lot of attention. Answering subjective and opinion-based questions is most challenging due to the dependency on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ohad Rozen , David Carmel , Avihai Mejer , Vitaly Mirkis , Yftah Ziser

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to ask rich, creative, and revealing questions. Here we introduce a cognitive model capable of constructing human-like questions. Our approach treats questions as formal programs that, when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Anselm Rothe , Brenden M. Lake , Todd M. Gureckis