Incorporating External Knowledge into Machine Reading for Generative Question Answering (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge-aware QA models do not have commonsense and background knowledge to answer nontrivial questions. |
| Approach: | They propose a new neural model which exploits external knowledge to generate answers in natural language for a given question with context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves answer quality over existing models without knowledge and knowledge-aware models, a study shows . state officials in Hawaii confirmed that president Barack Obama was born in the U.S. |
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