🚧 BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering (SIGIR19)

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BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering

Contribution summary

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Authors

Chen Qu¹, Liu Yang¹, Minghui Qiu², W. Bruce Croft¹, Yongfeng Zhang³, Mohit Iyyer¹ (¹University of Massachusetts Amherst, ²Alibaba Group, ³Rutgers University)

Motivation

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Method

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• Add the history answer embedding (HAE) to BERT’s word embeddings.
• HAE encodes the information of the answer spans from the previous questions. (This explanation is from "Learn to Resolve Conversational Dependency: A Consistency Training Framework for Conversational Question Answering")

Results / Insight

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Note

• This method is used in Learn to Resolve Conversational Dependency: A Consistency Training Framework for Conversational Question Answering (ACL21)