Addressing Semantic Drift in Generative Question Answering with Auxiliary Extraction (2021.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Recent work focuses on question answering based on machine reading comprehension . current approaches treat QA as extracting a consecutive piece of text to a given question. |
| Approach: | They propose a generative QA model that incorporates an extractive mechanism into a model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves quality and semantic accuracy over baseline models. |
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