Ning Jin


2021

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Neural Retrieval for Question Answering with Cross-Attention Supervised Data Augmentation
Yinfei Yang | Ning Jin | Kuo Lin | Mandy Guo | Daniel Cer
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Early fusion models with cross-attention have shown better-than-human performance on some question answer benchmarks, while it is a poor fit for retrieval since it prevents pre-computation of the answer representations. We present a supervised data mining method using an accurate early fusion model to improve the training of an efficient late fusion retrieval model. We first train an accurate classification model with cross-attention between questions and answers. The cross-attention model is then used to annotate additional passages in order to generate weighted training examples for a neural retrieval model. The resulting retrieval model with additional data significantly outperforms retrieval models directly trained with gold annotations on Precision at N (P@N) and Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR).

2015

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NCSU-SAS-Ning: Candidate Generation and Feature Engineering for Supervised Lexical Normalization
Ning Jin
Proceedings of the Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text