Improving Knowledge Production Efficiency With Question Answering on Conversation (2023.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing researches on conversation-based QA focus on document-based tasks . current researche focuses on document based tasks, but there is a lack of researche on conversation based qa . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-span extraction model on conversation-based QA and introduce continual pre-training and multi-task learning schemes to further improve model performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline on two Chinese datasets and will be released for research purposes. |
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