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A curated list of question answering systems and techniques in natural language processing

😎 A curated list of the Question Answering (QA)

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.08422.pdfpaper:
https://github.com/wissam-sib/dilbert16almost 6 years agogithub:
https://unifiedqa.apps.allenai.org/Demo:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.00038.pdfpaper:
https://github.com/xwhan/ProQA43over 3 years agogithub:
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2003/2003.05002.pdfpaper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.09694v2.pdfpaper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.04118.pdfpaper:
ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators, Kevin Clark, et al., ICLR, 2020
TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding, Xiaoqi Jiao, et al., ICLR, 2020
MINILM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers, Wenhui Wang, et al., arXiv, 2020
T5: Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer, Colin Raffel, et al., arXiv preprint, 2019
ERNIE: Enhanced Language Representation with Informative Entities, Zhengyan Zhang, et al., ACL, 2019
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding, Zhilin Yang, et al., arXiv preprint, 2019
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations, Zhenzhong Lan, et al., arXiv preprint, 2019
RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach, Yinhan Liu, et al., arXiv preprint, 2019
DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter, Victor sanh, et al., arXiv, 2019
SpanBERT: Improving Pre-training by Representing and Predicting Spans, Mandar Joshi, et al., TACL, 2019
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding, Jacob Devlin, et al., NAACL 2019, 2018
TANDA: Transfer and Adapt Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Answer Sentence Selection, Siddhant Garg, et al., AAAI 2020, Nov 2019
Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering, Asma Ben Abacha, et al., ACL-W 2019, Aug 2019
Towards Scalable and Reliable Capsule Networks for Challenging NLP Applications, Wei Zhao, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019
Cognitive Graph for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension at Scale, Ming Ding, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019
Real-Time Open-Domain Question Answering with Dense-Sparse Phrase Index, Minjoon Seo, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019
Unsupervised Question Answering by Cloze Translation, Patrick Lewis, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019
SemEval-2019 Task 10: Math Question Answering, Mark Hopkins, et al., ACL-W 2019, Jun 2019
Improving Question Answering over Incomplete KBs with Knowledge-Aware Reader, Wenhan Xiong, et al., ACL 2019, May 2019
Matching Article Pairs with Graphical Decomposition and Convolutions, Bang Liu, et al., ACL 2019, May 2019
Episodic Memory Reader: Learning what to Remember for Question Answering from Streaming Data, Moonsu Han, et al., ACL 2019, Mar 2019
Natural Questions: a Benchmark for Question Answering Research, Tom Kwiatkowski, et al., TACL 2019, Jan 2019
Textbook Question Answering with Multi-modal Context Graph Understanding and Self-supervised Open-set Comprehension, Daesik Kim, et al., ACL 2019, Nov 2018
Language Models as Knowledge Bases?, Fabio Petron, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Sep 2019
LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers, Hao Tan, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Dec 2019
Answering Complex Open-domain Questions Through Iterative Query Generation, Peng Qi, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Oct 2019
KagNet: Knowledge-Aware Graph Networks for Commonsense Reasoning, Bill Yuchen Lin, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Sep 2019
Mixture Content Selection for Diverse Sequence Generation, Jaemin Cho, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Sep 2019
A Discrete Hard EM Approach for Weakly Supervised Question Answering, Sewon Min, et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP, 2019, Sep 2019
Investigating the Successes and Failures of BERT for Passage Re-Ranking, Harshith Padigela, et al., arXiv preprint, May 2019
BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering, Chen Qu, et al., arXiv preprint, May 2019
Understanding the Behaviors of BERT in Ranking, Yifan Qiao, et al., arXiv preprint, Apr 2019
BERT Post-Training for Review Reading Comprehension and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis, Hu Xu, et al., arXiv preprint, Apr 2019
End-to-End Open-Domain Question Answering with BERTserini, Wei Yang, et al., arXiv preprint, Feb 2019
A BERT Baseline for the Natural Questions, Chris Alberti, et al., arXiv preprint, Jan 2019
Passage Re-ranking with BERT, Rodrigo Nogueira, et al., arXiv preprint, Jan 2019
SDNet: Contextualized Attention-based Deep Network for Conversational Question Answering, Chenguang Zhu, et al., arXiv, Dec 2018
ELI5: Long Form Question Answering, Angela Fan, et al., ACL 2019, Jul 2019
CODAH: An Adversarially-Authored Question Answering Dataset for Common Sense, Michael Chen, et al., RepEval 2019, Jun 2019

Awesome Question Answering / About QA / Analysis and Parsing for Pre-processing in QA systems

Morphological analysis
Named Entity Recognition(NER)

Awesome Question Answering / Systems

IBM WatsonHas state-of-the-arts performance
Facebook DrQAApplied to the SQuAD1.0 dataset. The SQuAD2.0 dataset has released. but DrQA is not tested yet
MIT media lab's Knowledge graphIs a freely-available semantic network, designed to help computers understand the meanings of words that people use

Awesome Question Answering / Competitions in QA

Story Cloze Test
SQuAD
SQuAD 2.0
TriviaQA
decaNLP
DuReader Ver1.
DuReader Ver2.
KorQuAD
KorQuAD 2.0
CoQA

Awesome Question Answering / Publications / Papers

"Learning to Skim Text", Adams Wei Yu, Hongrae Lee, Quoc V. Le, 2017. : Show only what you want in Text
"Deep Joint Entity Disambiguation with Local Neural Attention", Octavian-Eugen Ganea and Thomas Hofmann, 2017
"BI-DIRECTIONAL ATTENTION FLOW FOR MACHINE COMPREHENSION", Minjoon Seo, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Ali Farhadi, Hananneh Hajishirzi, ICLR, 2017
"Capturing Semantic Similarity for Entity Linking with Convolutional Neural Networks", Matthew Francis-Landau, Greg Durrett and Dan Klei, NAACL-HLT 2016

Awesome Question Answering / Publications / Papers / "Capturing Semantic Similarity for Entity Linking with Convolutional Neural Networks"

https://GitHub.com/matthewfl/nlp-entity-convnet

Awesome Question Answering / Publications / Papers

"Entity Linking with a Knowledge Base: Issues, Techniques, and Solutions", Wei Shen, Jianyong Wang, Jiawei Han, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering(TKDE), 2014
"Introduction to “This is Watson", IBM Journal of Research and Development, D. A. Ferrucci, 2012
"A survey on question answering technology from an information retrieval perspective", Information Sciences, 2011
"Question Answering in Restricted Domains: An Overview", Diego Mollá and José Luis Vicedo, Computational Linguistics, 2007
"Natural language question answering: the view from here", L Hirschman, R Gaizauskas, natural language engineering, 2001

Awesome Question Answering / Codes

BiDAF1,536over 3 years agoBi-Directional Attention Flow (BIDAF) network is a multi-stage hierarchical process that represents the context at different levels of granularity and uses bi-directional attention flow mechanism to obtain a query-aware context representation without early summarization

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QANet983over 8 years agoA Q&A architecture does not require recurrent networks: Its encoder consists exclusively of convolution and self-attention, where convolution models local interactions and self-attention models global interactions
R-Net578about 8 years agoAn end-to-end neural networks model for reading comprehension style question answering, which aims to answer questions from a given passage

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R-Net-in-Keras178almost 9 years agoR-NET re-implementation in Keras

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DrQA401over 4 years agoDrQA is a system for reading comprehension applied to open-domain question answering
BERT38,374about 2 years agoA new language representation model which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Unlike recent language representation models, BERT is designed to pre-train deep bidirectional representations by jointly conditioning on both left and right context in all layers

Awesome Question Answering / Codes / BERT

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Awesome Question Answering / Lectures

Question Answering - Natural Language ProcessingBy Dragomir Radev, Ph.D. | University of Michigan | 2016

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Question Answering with Knowledge Bases, Web and Beyond35about 7 years agoBy Scott Wen-tau Yih & Hao Ma | Microsoft Research | 2016
Question AnsweringBy Dr. Mariana Neves | Hasso Plattner Institut | 2017

Awesome Question Answering / Dataset Collections

NLIWOD's Question answering datasets94over 4 years ago
karthinkncode's Datasets for Natural Language Processing919over 6 years ago

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets

AI2 Science Questions v2.1(2017)

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / AI2 Science Questions v2.1(2017)

http://ai2-website.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/AI2ReasoningChallenge2018.pdfPaper:

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets

Children's Book Test
CODAH Dataset22almost 4 years ago
DeepMind Q&A Dataset; CNN/Daily Mail1,293over 9 years ago

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / DeepMind Q&A Dataset; CNN/Daily Mail

https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03340Paper:

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ELI5321about 5 years ago

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / ELI5

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09190Paper:

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GraphQuestions92almost 4 years ago
LC-QuAD
MS MARCO

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / MS MARCO

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09268Paper:

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MultiRC

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / MultiRC

http://cogcomp.org/page/publication_view/833Paper:

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NarrativeQA463over 6 years ago

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / NarrativeQA

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07040v1.pdfPaper:

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NewsQA253almost 4 years ago

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / NewsQA

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.09830.pdfPaper:

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets

Qestion-Answer Dataset by CMU
SQuAD1.0

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / SQuAD1.0

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05250Paper:

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SQuAD2.0

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / SQuAD2.0

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03822Paper:

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Story cloze test

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01696Paper:

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TriviaQA

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / TriviaQA

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03551Paper:

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WikiQA

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / The DeepQA Research Team in IBM Watson's publication within 5 years / 2015

"Unsupervised Entity-Relation Analysis in IBM Watson", Aditya Kalyanpur, J William Murdock, ACS, 2015

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / The DeepQA Research Team in IBM Watson's publication within 5 years / 2014

"WatsonPaths: Scenario-based Question Answering and Inference over Unstructured Information", Adam Lally, Sugato Bachi, Michael A. Barborak, David W. Buchanan, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, David A. Ferrucci*, Michael R. Glass, Aditya Kalyanpur, Erik T. Mueller, J. William Murdock, Siddharth Patwardhan, John M. Prager, Christopher A. Welty, IBM Research Report RC25489, 2014
"Medical Relation Extraction with Manifold Models", Chang Wang and James Fan, ACL, 2014

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / MS Research's publication within 5 years / 2018

"FigureQA: An Annotated Figure Dataset for Visual Reasoning", Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Adam Atkinson, Akos Kadar, Adam Trischler, Yoshua Bengio, ICLR, 2018

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / MS Research's publication within 5 years / 2016

"Stacked Attention Networks for Image Question Answering", Zichao Yang, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Alex Smola, CVPR, 2016
"Question Answering with Knowledge Base, Web and Beyond", Yih, Scott Wen-tau and Ma, Hao, ACM SIGIR, 2016
"NewsQA: A Machine Comprehension Dataset", Adam Trischler, Tong Wang, Xingdi Yuan, Justin Harris, Alessandro Sordoni, Philip Bachman, Kaheer Suleman, RepL4NLP, 2016
"Table Cell Search for Question Answering", Sun, Huan and Ma, Hao and He, Xiaodong and Yih, Wen-tau and Su, Yu and Yan, Xifeng, WWW, 2016

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / MS Research's publication within 5 years / 2015

"WIKIQA: A Challenge Dataset for Open-Domain Question Answering", Yi Yang, Wen-tau Yih, and Christopher Meek, EMNLP, 2015
"Web-based Question Answering: Revisiting AskMSR", Chen-Tse Tsai, Wen-tau Yih, and Christopher J.C. Burges, MSR-TR, 2015
"Open Domain Question Answering via Semantic Enrichment", Huan Sun, Hao Ma, Wen-tau Yih, Chen-Tse Tsai, Jingjing Liu, and Ming-Wei Chang, WWW, 2015

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / MS Research's publication within 5 years / 2014

"An Overview of Microsoft Deep QA System on Stanford WebQuestions Benchmark", Zhenghao Wang, Shengquan Yan, Huaming Wang, and Xuedong Huang, MSR-TR, 2014
"Semantic Parsing for Single-Relation Question Answering", Wen-tau Yih, Xiaodong He, Christopher Meek, ACL, 2014

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / Google AI's publication within 5 years / 2018

Google QA
"QANet: Combining Local Convolution with Global Self-Attention for Reading Comprehension", Adams Wei Yu, David Dohan, Minh-Thang Luong, Rui Zhao, Kai Chen, Mohammad Norouzi, Quoc V. Le, ICLR, 2018
"Ask the Right Questions: Active Question Reformulation with Reinforcement Learning", Christian Buck and Jannis Bulian and Massimiliano Ciaramita and Wojciech Paweł Gajewski and Andrea Gesmundo and Neil Houlsby and Wei Wang, ICLR, 2018
"Building Large Machine Reading-Comprehension Datasets using Paragraph Vectors", Radu Soricut, Nan Ding, 2018

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / Google AI's publication within 5 years / 2018 / Sentence representation

"An efficient framework for learning sentence representations", Lajanugen Logeswaran, Honglak Lee, ICLR, 2018

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / Google AI's publication within 5 years / 2018

"Did the model understand the question?", Pramod K. Mudrakarta and Ankur Taly and Mukund Sundararajan and Kedar Dhamdhere, ACL, 2018

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / Google AI's publication within 5 years / 2017

"Analyzing Language Learned by an Active Question Answering Agent", Christian Buck and Jannis Bulian and Massimiliano Ciaramita and Wojciech Gajewski and Andrea Gesmundo and Neil Houlsby and Wei Wang, NIPS, 2017
"Learning Recurrent Span Representations for Extractive Question Answering", Kenton Lee and Shimi Salant and Tom Kwiatkowski and Ankur Parikh and Dipanjan Das and Jonathan Berant, ICLR, 2017

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / Google AI's publication within 5 years / 2017 / Identify the same question

"Neural Paraphrase Identification of Questions with Noisy Pretraining", Gaurav Singh Tomar and Thyago Duque and Oscar Täckström and Jakob Uszkoreit and Dipanjan Das, SCLeM, 2017

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / Facebook AI Research's publication within 5 years / 2018

Embodied Question Answering, Abhishek Das, Samyak Datta, Georgia Gkioxari, Stefan Lee, Devi Parikh, and Dhruv Batra, CVPR, 2018
Do explanations make VQA models more predictable to a human?, Arjun Chandrasekaran, Viraj Prabhu, Deshraj Yadav, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, and Devi Parikh, EMNLP, 2018
Neural Compositional Denotational Semantics for Question Answering, Nitish Gupta, Mike Lewis, EMNLP, 2018

Awesome Question Answering / Datasets / Facebook AI Research's publication within 5 years / 2017

DrQA
Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions, Danqi Chen, Adam Fisch, Jason Weston & Antoine Bordes, ACL, 2017
Building a Question-Answering System from Scratch— Part 1
Qeustion Answering with Tensorflow By Steven Hewitt, O'REILLY, 2017
Why question answering is hard

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