Paper Info
Title
A Constituent-Centric Neural Architecture For Reading Comprehension
Abstract
Reading comprehension (RC), aiming to understand natural texts and answer questions therein, is a challenging task. In this paper, we study the RC problem on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD). Observing from the training set that most correct answers are centered around constituents in the parse tree, we design a constituent-centric neural architecture where the generation of candidate answers and their representation learning are both based on constituents and guided by the parse tree. Under this architecture, the search space of candidate answers can be greatly reduced without sacrificing the coverage of correct answers and the syntactic, hierarchical and compositional structure among constituents can be well captured, which contributes to better representation learning of the candidate answers. On SQuAD, our method achieves the state of the art performance and the ablation study corroborates the effectiveness of individual modules.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.18653/v1/P17-1129
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 55TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL 2017), VOL 1
Field
DocType
Volume
Architecture,Reading comprehension,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
P17-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pengtao Xie133922.63
Bo Xing27332471.43