Paper Reading AI Learner

Multilingual Question Answering from Formatted Text applied to Conversational Agents

2019-10-10 15:44:29
Wissam Siblini, Charlotte Pasqual, Axel Lavielle, Cyril Cauchois

Abstract

Recent advances in NLP with language models such as BERT, GPT-2, XLNet or XLM, have allowed surpassing human performance on Reading Comprehension tasks on large-scale datasets (e.g. SQuAD), and this opens up many perspectives for Conversational AI. However, task-specific datasets are mostly in English which makes it difficult to acknowledge progress in foreign languages. Fortunately, state-of-the-art models are now being pre-trained on multiple languages (e.g. BERT was released in a multilingual version managing a hundred languages) and are exhibiting ability for zero-shot transfer from English to others languages on XNLI. In this paper, we run experiments that show that multilingual BERT, trained to solve the complex Question Answering task defined in the English SQuAD dataset, is able to achieve the same task in Japanese and French. It even outperforms the best published results of a baseline which explicitly combines an English model for Reading Comprehension and a Machine Translation Model for transfer. We run further tests on crafted cross-lingual QA datasets (context in one language and question in another) to provide intuition on the mechanisms that allow BERT to transfer the task from one language to another. Finally, we introduce our application Kate. Kate is a conversational agent dedicated to HR support for employees that exploits multilingual models to accurately answer to questions, in several languages, directly from information web pages.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04659

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.04659.pdf


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