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We introduce an approach for open-domain question answering (QA) that retrieves and reads a passage graph, where vertices are passages of text and edges represent relationships that are derived from an external knowledge base or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Sewon Min , Danqi Chen , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Current methods in open-domain question answering (QA) usually employ a pipeline of first retrieving relevant documents, then applying strong reading comprehension (RC) models to that retrieved text. However, modern RC models are complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Shih-Ting Lin , Greg Durrett

Question answering (QA) system aims at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents against a query. This paper describes the architecture of a Natural Language Question Answering (NLQA) system for a specific domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Athira P. M. , Sreeja M. , P. C. Reghu Raj

Open-domain Question Answering (OpenQA) is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which aims to answer a question in the form of natural language based on large-scale unstructured documents. Recently, there has been a surge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Fengbin Zhu , Wenqiang Lei , Chao Wang , Jianming Zheng , Soujanya Poria , Tat-Seng Chua

Open Domain Question Answering (QA) is evolving from complex pipelined systems to end-to-end deep neural networks. Specialized neural models have been developed for extracting answers from either text alone or Knowledge Bases (KBs) alone.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Haitian Sun , Bhuwan Dhingra , Manzil Zaheer , Kathryn Mazaitis , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

End-to-end question answering (QA) requires both information retrieval (IR) over a large document collection and machine reading comprehension (MRC) on the retrieved passages. Recent work has successfully trained neural IR systems using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Bhavani Iyer , Md Arafat Sultan , Rong Zhang , Avi Sil , Vittorio Castelli , Radu Florian , Salim Roukos

Searching for new information requires talking to the system. In this research, an Open-domain Conversational information search system has been developed. This system has been implemented using the TREC CAsT 2019 track, which is one of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Omid Mohammadi Kia , Mahmood Neshati , Mahsa Soudi Alamdari

In the constantly evolving field of cybersecurity, it is imperative for analysts to stay abreast of the latest attack trends and pertinent information that aids in the investigation and attribution of cyber-attacks. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Sampath Rajapaksha , Ruby Rani , Erisa Karafili

Closed-book question answering (QA) requires a model to directly answer an open-domain question without access to any external knowledge. Prior work on closed-book QA either directly finetunes or prompts a pretrained language model (LM) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Dan Su , Mostofa Patwary , Shrimai Prabhumoye , Peng Xu , Ryan Prenger , Mohammad Shoeybi , Pascale Fung , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

In recent years researchers have achieved considerable success applying neural network methods to question answering (QA). These approaches have achieved state of the art results in simplified closed-domain settings such as the SQuAD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Shuohang Wang , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Zhiguo Wang , Tim Klinger , Wei Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Gerald Tesauro , Bowen Zhou , Jing Jiang

Existing approaches for open-domain question answering (QA) are typically designed for questions that require either single-hop or multi-hop reasoning, which make strong assumptions of the complexity of questions to be answered. Also,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ping Nie , Yuyu Zhang , Arun Ramamurthy , Le Song

In open question answering (QA), the answer to a question is produced by retrieving and then analyzing documents that might contain answers to the question. Most open QA systems have considered only retrieving information from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Wenhu Chen , Ming-Wei Chang , Eva Schlinger , William Wang , William W. Cohen

Open-domain question answering (QA) tasks usually require the retrieval of relevant information from a large corpus to generate accurate answers. We propose a novel approach called Generator-Retriever-Generator (GRG) that combines document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Adam Jatowt

This work presents a novel four-stage open-domain QA pipeline R2-D2 (Rank twice, reaD twice). The pipeline is composed of a retriever, passage reranker, extractive reader, generative reader and a mechanism that aggregates the final…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Martin Fajcik , Martin Docekal , Karel Ondrej , Pavel Smrz

Open Domain Question Answering requires systems to retrieve external knowledge and perform multi-hop reasoning by composing knowledge spread over multiple sentences. In the recently introduced open domain question answering challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Pratyay Banerjee , Chitta Baral

Question answering (QA) systems are among the most important and rapidly developing research topics in natural language processing (NLP). A reason, therefore, is that a QA system allows humans to interact more naturally with a machine,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Amer Farea , Zhen Yang , Kien Duong , Nadeesha Perera , Frank Emmert-Streib

As one promising way to inquire about any particular information through a dialog with the bot, question answering dialog systems have gained increasing research interests recently. Designing interactive QA systems has always been a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Munazza Zaib , Dai Hoang Tran , Subhash Sagar , Adnan Mahmood , Wei E. Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng

The usage and amount of information available on the internet increase over the past decade. This digitization leads to the need for automated answering system to extract fruitful information from redundant and transitional knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hariom A. Pandya , Brijesh S. Bhatt

During this pandemic situation, extracting any relevant information related to COVID-19 will be immensely beneficial to the community at large. In this paper, we present a very important resource, COVIDRead, a Stanford Question Answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Tanik Saikh , Sovan Kumar Sahoo , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Open-domain conversational question answering can be viewed as two tasks: passage retrieval and conversational question answering, where the former relies on selecting candidate passages from a large corpus and the latter requires better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Hung-Chieh Fang , Kuo-Han Hung , Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen