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Multi-strategies Method for Cold-Start Stage Question Matching of rQA Task

verfasst von : Dongfang Li, Qingcai Chen, Songjian Chen, Xin Liu, Buzhou Tang, Ben Tan

Erschienen in: Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Sentence Semantic Equivalence Identification (SSEI) plays a key role in the Retrieval-based Question Answering (rQA) systems. Nevertheless, for the resource limitation of many real applications, even the best SSEI models may underperform. To enhance the performance, this paper firstly proposes a novel deep neural network named Densely-connected Fusion Attentive Network (DFAN). The key idea behind our model is to learn the interactive semantic information with densely connection and fusion attentive mechanism. Secondly, for the limitation of the available corpus for the given domain, we add an auxiliary classification task, which categorizes questions into domain-specific classes. And pre-trained sentence embeddings learned from large unlabeled pairs are integrated as the weakly supervised learning strategy. We conduct experiments on datasets SNLI, Quora, and the domain corpus provided for a real rQA system, achieving competitive results on all. For the domain corpus, as the best F1 value of 93.29% reached by the proposed DFAN model with additional strategies, the measure hit@1 for the real rQA systems is 52.02%, which outperforms all compared methods. This result also shows that, getting satisfied performance for a real rQA system remains a challenging natural language processing task.

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The result of BERT and MT-DNN in this dataset is 89.3% and 89.6%, as they used other data split of [25].
 
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We use the pre-trained model released by authors. There is only a base model in Chinese.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Multi-strategies Method for Cold-Start Stage Question Matching of rQA Task
verfasst von
Dongfang Li
Qingcai Chen
Songjian Chen
Xin Liu
Buzhou Tang
Ben Tan
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32233-5_3