Manas Jain


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2024

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Natural Answer Generation: From Factoid Answer to Full-length Answer using Grammar Correction
Manas Jain | Sriparna Saha | Pushpak Bhattacharyya | Gladvin Chinnadurai | Manish Vatsa
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)

Question Answering systems these days typically use template-based language generation. Though adequate for a domain-specific task, these systems are too restrictive and predefined for domain-independent systems. This paper proposes a system that outputs a full-length answer given a question and the extracted factoid answer (short spans such as named entities) as the input. Our system uses constituency and dependency parse trees of questions. A transformer-based Grammar Error Correction model GECToR is used as a post-processing step for better fluency. We compare our system with (i) a Modified Pointer Generator (SOTA) and (ii) Fine-tuned DialoGPT for factoid questions. We also tested our approach on existential (yes-no) questions with better results. Our model generates more accurate and fluent answers than the state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches. The evaluation is done on NewsQA and SqUAD datasets with an increment of 0.4 and 0.9 percentage points in ROUGE-1 score respectively. Also, the inference time is reduced by 85% compared to the SOTA. The improved datasets used for our evaluation will be released as part of the research contribution.