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Three-stage question answering system with sentence ranking

8 pagesPublished: March 18, 2019

Abstract

We explore a recently proposed question answering system. We developed a high speed modification based on dividing the question answering system into three consecutive stages. The first step is to find the candidate documents that most likely contain the answer to the question. The second step is to rank sentences by the probability of having a correct answer to the question. The third step is to find the exact phrase that answers the question. At the third step we used a recently proposed recurrent bidirectional neural network predicting the beginning and the end of a response. In this paper we showed that the proposed question answering system allows to speed up its work without significant losses in the quality. For each step we also explored the feature space construction techniques allowing to improve the final quality.

Keyphrases: document retrieval, question answering, ranking system, recurrent neural network

In: Gerhard Wohlgenannt, Ruprecht von Waldenfels, Svetlana Toldova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Denis Paperno, Olga Lyashevskaya, Natalia Loukachevitch, Sergei O. Kuznetsov, Olga Kultepina, Dmitry Ilvovsky, Boris Galitsky, Ekaterina Artemova and Elena Bolshakova (editors). Proceedings of Third Workshop "Computational linguistics and language science", vol 4, pages 18-25.

BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{CLLS2018:Three_stage_question_answering,
  author    = {Daria Soboleva and Konstantin Vorontsov},
  title     = {Three-stage question answering system with sentence ranking},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of Third Workshop "Computational linguistics and language science"},
  editor    = {Gerhard Wohlgenannt and Ruprecht von Waldenfels and Svetlana Toldova and Ekaterina Rakhilina and Denis Paperno and Olga Lyashevskaya and Natalia Loukachevitch and Sergei O. Kuznetsov and Olga Kultepina and Dmitry Ilvovsky and Boris Galitsky and Ekaterina Artemova and Elena Bolshakova},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics},
  volume    = {4},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5283},
  url       = {/publications/paper/pzz7},
  doi       = {10.29007/bj7w},
  pages     = {18-25},
  year      = {2019}}
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