Background This article provides an overview of the first BioASQ challenge, a competition on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA), which took …
Despite showing increasingly human-like conversational abilities, state-of-the-art dialogue models often suffer from factual incorrectness and hallucination of knowledge (Roller et al …
Lexical matching remains the de facto evaluation method for open-domain question answering (QA). Unfortunately, lexical matching fails completely when a plausible candidate …
Dual encoders perform retrieval by encoding documents and queries into dense low- dimensional vectors, scoring each document by its inner product with the query. We …
The advent of recent Natural Language Processing technology has led human and machine interactions more toward conversation. In Conversational Search Systems (CSS) like …
We study open-domain question answering with structured, unstructured and semi- structured knowledge sources, including text, tables, lists and knowledge bases. Departing …
Advances in computational linguistics and discourse processing have made it possible to automate many language-and text-processing mechanisms. We have developed a …
A Mishra, SK Jain - Journal of King Saud University-Computer and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Question answering systems (QASs) generate answers of questions asked in natural languages. Early QASs were developed for restricted domains and have limited capabilities …
Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …