EQuANt (Enhanced Question Answer Network)

06/24/2019
by   François-Xavier Aubet, et al.
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Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is an important topic in the domain of automated question answering and in natural language processing more generally. Since the release of the SQuAD 1.1 and SQuAD 2 datasets, progress in the field has been particularly significant, with current state-of-the-art models now exhibiting near-human performance at both answering well-posed questions and detecting questions which are unanswerable given a corresponding context. In this work, we present Enhanced Question Answer Network (EQuANt), an MRC model which extends the successful QANet architecture of Yu et al. to cope with unanswerable questions. By training and evaluating EQuANt on SQuAD 2, we show that it is indeed possible to extend QANet to the unanswerable domain. We achieve results which are close to 2 times better than our chosen baseline obtained by evaluating a lightweight version of the original QANet architecture on SQuAD 2. In addition, we report that the performance of EQuANt on SQuAD 1.1 after being trained on SQuAD2 exceeds that of our lightweight QANet architecture trained and evaluated on SQuAD 1.1, demonstrating the utility of multi-task learning in the MRC context.

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