Conversational Question Answering
Project Description
This project concerns conversational question answering (CQA), which is the task of answering a sequence of interrelated questions that occur during a conversation between a human and a computer. In contrast to answering unrelated single questions one question at a time, CQA is a more challenging task, due to the requirement of understanding a question in the context of previous questions and answers, as well as dealing with the effect of cascading errors when previous questions are incorrectly answered. We propose a novel approach using neural networks, which incorporates co-reference resolution to enable correct understanding of a subsequent question in the context of previous questions and answers.
Research Technical Area
Benefits to the society
Project’s Publications
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Wee Chung Gan, Hwee Tou Ng.
Improving the Robustness of Question Answering Systems to Question Paraphrasing. ACL 2019. 6065-6075. 10.18653/v1/P19-1610.
Team’s Principal Investigator
Professor Hwee Tou Ng
School of Computing
National University of Singapore