Reference-based Weak Supervision for Answer Sentence Selection using Web Data

04/18/2021
by   Vivek Krishnamurthy, et al.
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Answer sentence selection (AS2) modeling requires annotated data, i.e., hand-labeled question-answer pairs. We present a strategy to collect weakly supervised answers for a question based on its reference to improve AS2 modeling. Specifically, we introduce Reference-based Weak Supervision (RWS), a fully automatic large-scale data pipeline that harvests high-quality weakly-supervised answers from abundant Web data requiring only a question-reference pair as input. We study the efficacy and robustness of RWS in the setting of TANDA, a recent state-of-the-art fine-tuning approach specialized for AS2. Our experiments indicate that the produced data consistently bolsters TANDA. We achieve the state of the art in terms of P@1, 90.1

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