Abstract
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.- Anthology ID:
- 2019.icon-1.28
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
- Editors:
- Dipti Misra Sharma, Pushpak Bhattacharya
- Venue:
- ICON
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- NLP Association of India
- Note:
- Pages:
- 239–248
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-affiliations/2019.icon-1.28/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Shalaka Vaidya, Hiranmai Sri Adibhatla, and Radhika Mamidi. 2019. Samajh-Boojh: A Reading Comprehension system in Hindi. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, pages 239–248, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. NLP Association of India.
- Cite (Informal):
- Samajh-Boojh: A Reading Comprehension system in Hindi (Vaidya et al., ICON 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-affiliations/2019.icon-1.28.pdf