Papers by Yanfu Xu
Ranking and Sampling in Open-Domain Question Answering (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches focus on positive paragraphs which contain the answer during training, making it disturbed by similar but irrelevant paragraphs during testing. |
| Approach: | They propose a ranking model leveraging the paragraph-question and the paragraph relevance to compute a confidence score for each paragraph. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on three datasets show that the proposed model advances the state of the art. |