Haoyang Wen
2020
Document Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension
Bo Zheng
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Haoyang Wen
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Yaobo Liang
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Nan Duan
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Wanxiang Che
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Daxin Jiang
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Ming Zhou
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Ting Liu
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Natural Questions is a new challenging machine reading comprehension benchmark with two-grained answers, which are a long answer (typically a paragraph) and a short answer (one or more entities inside the long answer). Despite the effectiveness of existing methods on this benchmark, they treat these two sub-tasks individually during training while ignoring their dependencies. To address this issue, we present a novel multi-grained machine reading comprehension framework that focuses on modeling documents at their hierarchical nature, which are different levels of granularity: documents, paragraphs, sentences, and tokens. We utilize graph attention networks to obtain different levels of representations so that they can be learned simultaneously. The long and short answers can be extracted from paragraph-level representation and token-level representation, respectively. In this way, we can model the dependencies between the two-grained answers to provide evidence for each other. We jointly train the two sub-tasks, and our experiments show that our approach significantly outperforms previous systems at both long and short answer criteria.
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- Yaobo Liang 1
- Nan Duan 1
- Wanxiang Che 1
- Daxin Jiang 1
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