Enhancing Key-Value Memory Neural Networks for Knowledge Based Question Answering (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing Key-value Memory Neural Networks are effective for shallow reasoning over documents . but extending them to Knowledge Based Question Answering is not trivial . |
| Approach: | They propose a mechanism to enable conventional KV-MemNNs models to perform interpretable reasoning for complex questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed solution provides better reasoning abilities on complex questions and achieves state-of-the-art performance. |
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