Shalaka Vaidya


2019

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Samajh-Boojh: A Reading Comprehension system in Hindi
Shalaka Vaidya | Hiranmai Sri Adibhatla | Radhika Mamidi
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

This paper presents a novel approach designed to answer questions on a reading comprehension passage. It is an end-to-end system which first focuses on comprehending the given passage wherein it converts unstructured passage into a structured data and later proceeds to answer the questions related to the passage using solely the aforementioned structured data. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed design is first of its kind which accounts for entire process of comprehending the passage and then answering the questions associated with the passage. The comprehension stage converts the passage into a Discourse Collection that comprises of the relation shared amongst logical sentences in given passage along with the key characteristics of each sentence. This design has its applications in academic domain , query comprehension in speech systems among others.