Does Meta-learning Help mBERT for Few-shot Question Generation in a Cross-lingual Transfer Setting for Indic Languages? (2022.coling-1)
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Aniruddha Roy, Rupak Kumar Thakur, Isha Sharma, Ashim Gupta, Amrith Krishna, Sudeshna Sarkar, Pawan Goyal
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to few-shot Question Generation (QG) are limited and require manual annotation. |
| Approach: | They propose to use multilingual BERT to perform few-shot question generation with cross-lingual transfer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves in few-shot QG and human evaluation confirms it. |
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