A dataset and baselines for sequential open-domain question answering

Ahmed Elgohary, Chen Zhao, Jordan Boyd-Graber


Abstract
Previous work on question-answering systems mainly focuses on answering individual questions, assuming they are independent and devoid of context. Instead, we investigate sequential question answering, asking multiple related questions. We present QBLink, a new dataset of fully human-authored questions. We extend existing strong question answering frameworks to include previous questions to improve the overall question-answering accuracy in open-domain question answering. The dataset is publicly available at http://sequential.qanta.org.
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D18-1134
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October-November
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2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1077–1083
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https://aclanthology.org/D18-1134
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10.18653/v1/D18-1134
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Ahmed Elgohary, Chen Zhao, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. 2018. A dataset and baselines for sequential open-domain question answering. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1077–1083, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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