Semi-supervised training data generation for multilingual question answering

Kyungjae Lee, Kyoungho Yoon, Sunghyun Park, Seung Won Hwang

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Abstract

Recently, various datasets for question answering (QA) research have been released, such as SQuAD, Marco, WikiQA, MCTest, and SearchQA. However, such existing training resources for these task mostly support only English. In contrast, we study semi-automated creation of the Korean Question Answering Dataset (K-QuAD), by using automatically translated SQuAD and a QA system bootstrapped on a small QA pair set. As a naïve approach for other language, using only machine-translated SQuAD shows limited performance due to translation errors. We study why such approach fails and motivate needs to build seed resources to enable leveraging such resources. Specifically, we annotate seed QA pairs of small size (4K) for Korean language, and design how such seed can be combined with translated English resources. These approach, by combining two resources, leads to 71.50 F1 on Korean QA (comparable to 77.3 F1 on SQuAD).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
EditorsHitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Stelios Piperidis, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Koiti Hasida, Helene Mazo, Khalid Choukri, Sara Goggi, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Nicoletta Calzolari, Jan Odijk, Takenobu Tokunaga
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages2758-2762
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9791095546009
StatePublished - 2019
Event11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 - Miyazaki, Japan
Duration: 7 May 201812 May 2018

Publication series

NameLREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMiyazaki
Period7/05/1812/05/18

Keywords

  • Machine Comprehension
  • Multilingual Resource
  • QA dataset

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