Towards building a Robust Industry-scale Question Answering System (2020.coling-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems that use “zero-shot transfer learning” (ZSTL) are difficult to train and have observation biases. |
| Approach: | They propose a production model called GAAMA which has two characteristics . it is robust and efficient, and trains on the recently introduced Natural Questions dataset . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs on two benchmarks: BioASQ and CovidQA. |
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