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Weakly supervised question answering

Weakly supervised question answering (WS-QA) trains neural reading-comprehension models using indirect or automatically derived answer labels rather than expensive human-annotated span annotations. By exploiting distant supervision, heuristic labeling, or answer-presence signals, WS-QA makes QA feasible in domains and languages where full annotation is impractical.

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Weakly Supervised Question Answering
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / deep-learning
  • Clark, C., & Gardner, M. (2018). Simple and Effective Multi-Paragraph Reading Comprehension. In Proceedings of ACL 2018, pp. 845–855. Association for Computational Linguistics. · URL
  • Min, S., Chen, D., Hajishirzi, H., & Zettlemoyer, L. (2019). A Discrete Hard EM Approach for Weakly Supervised Question Answering. In Proceedings of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, pp. 2083–2093. Association for Computational Linguistics. · URL
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