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Open-Domain Question Answering with Pre-Constructed Question Spaces

2020-06-02 04:31:09
Jinfeng Xiao, Lidan Wang, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Tong Sun, Jiawei Han

Abstract

Open-domain question answering aims at solving the task of locating the answers to user-generated questions in large collections of documents. There are two families of solutions to this challenge. One family of algorithms, namely retriever-readers, first retrieves some pieces of text that are probably relevant to the question, and then feeds the retrieved text to a neural network to get the answer. Another line of work first constructs some knowledge graphs from the corpus, and queries the graph for the answer. We propose a novel algorithm with a reader-retriever structure that differs from both families. Our algorithm first reads off-line the corpus to generate collections of all answerable questions associated with their answers, and then queries the pre-constructed question spaces online to find answers that are most likely to be asked in the given way. The final answer returned to the user is decided with an accept-or-reject mechanism that combines multiple candidate answers by comparing the level of agreement between the retriever-reader and reader-retriever results. We claim that our algorithm solves some bottlenecks in existing work, and demonstrate that it achieves superior accuracy on a public dataset.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08337

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08337.pdf


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