Multi-Task Learning with Multi-View Attention for Answer Selection and Knowledge Base Question Answering

Authors

  • Yang Deng Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
  • Yuexiang Xie Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
  • Yaliang Li Tencent Medical AI Lab
  • Min Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Nan Du Tencent Medical AI Lab
  • Wei Fan Tencent Medical AI Lab
  • Kai Lei Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
  • Ying Shen Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016318

Abstract

Answer selection and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are two important tasks of question answering (QA) systems. Existing methods solve these two tasks separately, which requires large number of repetitive work and neglects the rich correlation information between tasks. In this paper, we tackle answer selection and KBQA tasks simultaneously via multi-task learning (MTL), motivated by the following motivations. First, both answer selection and KBQA can be regarded as a ranking problem, with one at text-level while the other at knowledge-level. Second, these two tasks can benefit each other: answer selection can incorporate the external knowledge from knowledge base (KB), while KBQA can be improved by learning contextual information from answer selection. To fulfill the goal of jointly learning these two tasks, we propose a novel multi-task learning scheme that utilizes multi-view attention learned from various perspectives to enable these tasks to interact with each other as well as learn more comprehensive sentence representations. The experiments conducted on several real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the performance of answer selection and KBQA is improved. Also, the multi-view attention scheme is proved to be effective in assembling attentive information from different representational perspectives.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Deng, Y., Xie, Y., Li, Y., Yang, M., Du, N., Fan, W., Lei, K., & Shen, Y. (2019). Multi-Task Learning with Multi-View Attention for Answer Selection and Knowledge Base Question Answering. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 6318-6325. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016318

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AAAI Technical Track: Natural Language Processing