Elvis vs. M. Jackson: Who has More Albums? Classification and Identification of Elements in Comparative Questions
Meriem Beloucif, Seid Muhie Yimam, Steffen Stahlhacke, Chris Biemann
Abstract
Comparative Question Answering (cQA) is the task of providing concrete and accurate responses to queries such as: “Is Lyft cheaper than a regular taxi?” or “What makes a mortgage different from a regular loan?”. In this paper, we propose two new open-domain real-world datasets for identifying and labeling comparative questions. While the first dataset contains instances of English questions labeled as comparative vs. non-comparative, the second dataset provides additional labels including the objects and the aspects of comparison. We conduct several experiments that evaluate the soundness of our datasets. The evaluation of our datasets using various classifiers show promising results that reach close-to-human results on a binary classification task with a neural model using ALBERT embeddings. When approaching the unsupervised sequence labeling task, some headroom remains.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.402
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3771–3779
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.402
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Meriem Beloucif, Seid Muhie Yimam, Steffen Stahlhacke, and Chris Biemann. 2022. Elvis vs. M. Jackson: Who has More Albums? Classification and Identification of Elements in Comparative Questions. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3771–3779, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Elvis vs. M. Jackson: Who has More Albums? Classification and Identification of Elements in Comparative Questions (Beloucif et al., LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.lrec-1.402.pdf