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Self-Attention Architectures for Answer-Agnostic Neural Question Generation

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Scialom, Thomas, Piwowarski, Benjamin, Staiano, Jacopo·2019·Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Neural architectures based on self-attention, such as Transformers, recently attracted interest from the research community, and obtained significant improvements over the state of the art in several tasks. We explore how Transformers can be adapted to the task of Neural Question Generation without constraining the model to focus on a specific answer passage. We study the effect of several strategies to deal with out-of-vocabulary words such as copy mechanisms, placeholders, and contextual word embeddings. We report improvements obtained over the state-of-the-art on the SQuAD dataset according to automated metrics (BLEU, ROUGE), as well as qualitative human assessments of the system outputs.

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Authors
Scialom, T., Piwowarski, B., & Staiano, J.
Venue
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Published
2019
Pages
6027-6032
ISSN
0736-587X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2951785908
Cited by
70
References
18
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 16
FWCI
4.11
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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cc-by
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
self-attention

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