A Flexible and Extensible Framework for Multiple Answer Modes Question Answering

Cheng-Chung Fan, Chia-Chih Kuo, Shang-Bao Luo, Pei-Jun Liao, Kuang-Yu Chang, Chiao-Wei Hsu, Meng-Tse Wu, Shih-Hong Tsai, Tzu-Man Wu, Aleksandra Smolka, Chao-Chun Liang, Hsin-Min Wang, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu Tsao, Keh-Yih Su


Abstract
This paper presents a framework to answer the questions that require various kinds of inference mechanisms (such as Extraction, Entailment-Judgement, and Summarization). Most of the previous approaches adopt a rigid framework which handles only one inference mechanism. Only a few of them adopt several answer generation modules for providing different mechanisms; however, they either lack an aggregation mechanism to merge the answers from various modules, or are too complicated to be implemented with neural networks. To alleviate the problems mentioned above, we propose a divide-and-conquer framework, which consists of a set of various answer generation modules, a dispatch module, and an aggregation module. The answer generation modules are designed to provide different inference mechanisms, the dispatch module is used to select a few appropriate answer generation modules to generate answer candidates, and the aggregation module is employed to select the final answer. We test our framework on the 2020 Formosa Grand Challenge Contest dataset. Experiments show that the proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art Roberta-large model by about 11.4%.
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2021.rocling-1.5
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Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021)
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October
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2021
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Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Lung-Hao Lee, Chia-Hui Chang, Kuan-Yu Chen
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The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)
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Cheng-Chung Fan, Chia-Chih Kuo, Shang-Bao Luo, Pei-Jun Liao, Kuang-Yu Chang, Chiao-Wei Hsu, Meng-Tse Wu, Shih-Hong Tsai, Tzu-Man Wu, Aleksandra Smolka, Chao-Chun Liang, Hsin-Min Wang, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu Tsao, and Keh-Yih Su. 2021. A Flexible and Extensible Framework for Multiple Answer Modes Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), pages 33–42, Taoyuan, Taiwan. The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP).
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