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Self-supervised Question Answering

Self-supervised Question Answering (SSQA) is a training paradigm that automatically generates question-answer pairs from unlabeled text — using cloze translation, span masking, or neural question generation — to train QA models without any human-labeled data. It enables high-quality reading comprehension systems even when annotated datasets are scarce or domain-specific.

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Self-supervised Question Answering (SSQA)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / deep-learning
  • Lewis, P., Denoyer, L., & Riedel, S. (2019). Unsupervised Question Answering by Cloze Translation. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019), pp. 4896–4910. · DOI 10.18653/v1/P19-1484
  • Alberti, C., Andor, D., Pitler, E., Devlin, J., & Collins, M. (2019). Synthetic QA Corpora Generation with Roundtrip Consistency. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019), pp. 6168–6173. · DOI 10.18653/v1/p19-1620
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