Abstract
Point-of-Interest (POI) oriented question answering (QA) aims to return a list of POIs given a question issued by a user. Recent advances in intelligent virtual assistants have opened the possibility of engaging the client software more actively in the provision of location-based services, thereby showing great promise for automatic POI retrieval. Some existing QA methods can be adopted on this task such as QA similarity calculation and semantic parsing using pre-defined rules. The returned results, however, are subject to inherent limitations due to the lack of the ability for handling some important POI related information, including tags, location entities, and proximity-related terms (e.g. “nearby”, “close”). In this paper, we present a novel deep learning framework integrated with joint inference to capture both tag semantic and geographic correlation between question and POIs. One characteristic of our model is to propose a special cross attention question embedding neural network structure to obtain question-to-POI and POI-to-question information. Besides, we utilize a skewed distribution to simulate the spatial relationship between questions and POIs. By measuring the results offered by the model against existing methods, we demonstrate its robustness and practicability, and supplement our conclusions with empirical evidence.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.aacl-main.54
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Suzhou, China
- Venue:
- AACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 542–550
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.aacl-main.54
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Yifei Yuan, Jingbo Zhou, and Wai Lam. 2020. Point-of-Interest Oriented Question Answering with Joint Inference of Semantic Matching and Distance Correlation. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pages 542–550, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Point-of-Interest Oriented Question Answering with Joint Inference of Semantic Matching and Distance Correlation (Yuan et al., AACL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/2020.aacl-main.54.pdf