ADAPT Centre Cone Team at IJCNLP-2017 Task 5: A Similarity-Based Logistic Regression Approach to Multi-choice Question Answering in an Examinations Shared Task

Daria Dzendzik, Alberto Poncelas, Carl Vogel, Qun Liu


Abstract
We describe the work of a team from the ADAPT Centre in Ireland in addressing automatic answer selection for the Multi-choice Question Answering in Examinations shared task. The system is based on a logistic regression over the string similarities between question, answer, and additional text. We obtain the highest grade out of six systems: 48.7% accuracy on a validation set (vs. a baseline of 29.45%) and 45.6% on a test set.
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I17-4010
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Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, Shared Tasks
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December
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Chao-Hong Liu, Preslav Nakov, Nianwen Xue
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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67–72
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Daria Dzendzik, Alberto Poncelas, Carl Vogel, and Qun Liu. 2017. ADAPT Centre Cone Team at IJCNLP-2017 Task 5: A Similarity-Based Logistic Regression Approach to Multi-choice Question Answering in an Examinations Shared Task. In Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, Shared Tasks, pages 67–72, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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ADAPT Centre Cone Team at IJCNLP-2017 Task 5: A Similarity-Based Logistic Regression Approach to Multi-choice Question Answering in an Examinations Shared Task (Dzendzik et al., IJCNLP 2017)
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