QuAC: Question Answering in Context

Eunsol Choi, He He, Mohit Iyyer, Mark Yatskar, Wen-tau Yih, Yejin Choi, Percy Liang, Luke Zettlemoyer


Abstract
We present QuAC, a dataset for Question Answering in Context that contains 14K information-seeking QA dialogs (100K questions in total). The dialogs involve two crowd workers: (1) a student who poses a sequence of freeform questions to learn as much as possible about a hidden Wikipedia text, and (2) a teacher who answers the questions by providing short excerpts from the text. QuAC introduces challenges not found in existing machine comprehension datasets: its questions are often more open-ended, unanswerable, or only meaningful within the dialog context, as we show in a detailed qualitative evaluation. We also report results for a number of reference models, including a recently state-of-the-art reading comprehension architecture extended to model dialog context. Our best model underperforms humans by 20 F1, suggesting that there is significant room for future work on this data. Dataset, baseline, and leaderboard available at http://quac.ai.
Anthology ID:
D18-1241
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
October-November
Year:
2018
Address:
Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2174–2184
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D18-1241
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1241
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Cite (ACL):
Eunsol Choi, He He, Mohit Iyyer, Mark Yatskar, Wen-tau Yih, Yejin Choi, Percy Liang, and Luke Zettlemoyer. 2018. QuAC: Question Answering in Context. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2174–2184, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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QuAC: Question Answering in Context (Choi et al., EMNLP 2018)
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Data
QuACCoQAMS MARCONewsQASQuADTriviaQA