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In community-based question answering (CQA) platforms, automatic answer ranking for a given question is critical for finding potentially popular answers in early times. The mainstream approaches learn to generate answer ranking scores based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Wei Zhang , Zeyuan Chen , Chao Dong , Wen Wang , Hongyuan Zha , Jianyong Wang

We conduct large-scale studies on `human attention' in Visual Question Answering (VQA) to understand where humans choose to look to answer questions about images. We design and test multiple game-inspired novel attention-annotation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-20 Abhishek Das , Harsh Agrawal , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

We conduct large-scale studies on `human attention' in Visual Question Answering (VQA) to understand where humans choose to look to answer questions about images. We design and test multiple game-inspired novel attention-annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Abhishek Das , Harsh Agrawal , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Despite extensive research on a wide range of question answering (QA) systems, most existing work focuses on answer containment-i.e., assuming that answers can be directly extracted and/or generated from documents in the corpus. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jamshid Mozafari , Hamed Zamani , Guido Zuccon , Adam Jatowt

In this paper, the answer selection problem in community question answering (CQA) is regarded as an answer sequence labeling task, and a novel approach is proposed based on the recurrent architecture for this problem. Our approach applies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xiaoqiang Zhou , Baotian Hu , Qingcai Chen , Buzhou Tang , Xiaolong Wang

Open domain Question Answering (QA) systems must interact with external knowledge sources, such as web pages, to find relevant information. Information sources like Wikipedia, however, are not well structured and difficult to utilize in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yusuke Watanabe , Bhuwan Dhingra , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Question Answering has come a long way from answer sentence selection, relational QA to reading and comprehension. We shift our attention to generative question answering (gQA) by which we facilitate machine to read passages and answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Rajarshee Mitra

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

In this paper we explore deep learning models with memory component or attention mechanism for question answering task. We combine and compare three models, Neural Machine Translation, Neural Turing Machine, and Memory Networks for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Yang Yu , Wei Zhang , Chung-Wei Hang , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

Conversational question answering (CQA) is a novel QA task that requires understanding of dialogue context. Different from traditional single-turn machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks, CQA includes passage comprehension, coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

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

Natural language understanding (NLU) of text is a fundamental challenge in AI, and it has received significant attention throughout the history of NLP research. This primary goal has been studied under different tasks, such as Question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Daniel Khashabi

Non-extractive commonsense QA remains a challenging AI task, as it requires systems to reason about, synthesize, and gather disparate pieces of information, in order to generate responses to queries. Recent approaches on such tasks show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Kaixin Ma , Jonathan Francis , Quanyang Lu , Eric Nyberg , Alessandro Oltramari

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Andrea Madotto , Giuseppe Attardi

In this paper, we introduce Query-based Attention CNN(QACNN) for Text Similarity Map, an end-to-end neural network for question answering. This network is composed of compare mechanism, two-staged CNN architecture with attention mechanism,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Tzu-Chien Liu , Yu-Hsueh Wu , Hung-Yi Lee

Multi-hop question answering (QA) requires a model to retrieve and integrate information from different parts of a long text to answer a question. Humans answer this kind of complex questions via a divide-and-conquer approach. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yixuan Tang , Hwee Tou Ng , Anthony K. H. Tung

We implement a method for re-ranking top-10 results of a state-of-the-art question answering (QA) system. The goal of our re-ranking approach is to improve the answer selection given the user question and the top-10 candidates. We focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Michael Barz , Daniel Sonntag

Table Question Answering (TQA) aims to answer natural language questions about tabular data, often accompanied by additional contexts such as text passages. The task spans diverse settings, varying in table representation, question/answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wei Zhou , Bolei Ma , Annemarie Friedrich , Mohsen Mesgar

Complex question answering (CQA) over raw text is a challenging task. A prominent approach to this task is based on the programmer-interpreter framework, where the programmer maps the question into a sequence of reasoning actions which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xiao-Yu Guo , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari

We propose a machine reading comprehension model based on the compare-aggregate framework with two-staged attention that achieves state-of-the-art results on the MovieQA question answering dataset. To investigate the limitations of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Matthias Blohm , Glorianna Jagfeld , Ekta Sood , Xiang Yu , Ngoc Thang Vu