MICRON: Multigranular Interaction for Contextualizing RepresentatiON in Non-factoid Question Answering (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches for non-factoid question answering can be categorized into representation and interaction focused approaches. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach which derives contextualized uni-gram representation from n-grams. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art in two public non-factoid question answering datasets. |
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