Question answering (QA) systems provide a way of querying the information available in various formats including, but not limited to, unstructured and structured data in natural …
S Sun, Y Cheng, Z Gan, J Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09355, 2019 - arxiv.org
Pre-trained language models such as BERT have proven to be highly effective for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the high demand for computing resources in …
Humans gather information through conversations involving a series of interconnected questions and answers. For machines to assist in information gathering, it is therefore …
In humans, Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given our limited ability to process competing sources, attention mechanisms select, modulate, and …
Conversational search is an emerging topic in the information retrieval community. One of the major challenges to multi-turn conversational search is to model the conversation history …
We present GluonCV and GluonNLP, the deep learning toolkits for computer vision and natural language processing based on Apache MXNet (incubating). These toolkits provide …
In a conversational question answering scenario, a questioner seeks to extract information about a topic through a series of interdependent questions and answers. As the …
Conversational search is one of the ultimate goals of information retrieval. Recent research approaches conversational search by simplified settings of response ranking and …
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant transformation with the introduction of Transformers. From the first introduction of this technology in 2017 …