Role of Activation Functions and Order of Input Sequences in Question Answering

Author(s):  
B. S. Chenna Keshava ◽  
P. K. Sumukha ◽  
K. Chandrasekaran ◽  
D. Usha
Author(s):  
Pierre Andrews ◽  
Silvia Quarteroni

We present the role of conversational agents in two task-oriented human-computer dialogue applications: Interactive Question Answering and Persuasive Dialogue. We show that conversational agents can be effectively deployed for interaction that goes beyond user entertainment and can be successfully used as a means to achieve complex tasks. Conversational agents are a winning solution in Persuasive Dialogue because, combined with a planning infrastructure, they can help manage the parts of the dialogue that cannot be planned a priori and are primordial to keep the system persuasive. In Interactive Question Answering, conversational approaches lead users to the explicit formulation of queries, allow for the submission of further queries and accomodate related queries thanks to their ability to handle context.


Author(s):  
Manuel Pérez-Coutiño ◽  
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez ◽  
Aurelio López-López ◽  
Luis Villaseñor-Pineda
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Enfance ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol N°3 (3) ◽  
pp. 313
Author(s):  
Ignacio Máñez ◽  
Eduardo Vidal-Abarca

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Lihua Zhen ◽  
Xiaoqi Sun

As a new generation of search engine, automatic question answering system (QAS) is becoming more and more important and has become one of the hotspots of computer application research and natural language processing (NLP). However, as an indispensable part of the QAS, the role of question classification is an understood thing in the system. In view of this, to further make the performance of question classification much better, both the feature extraction and the classification model were explored. On the study of existing CNN research, an improved CNN model based on Bagging integrated classification (“W2V + B-CNN” for short) is proposed and applied to question classification. Firstly, we combine the characteristics of short texts, use the Word2Vec tool to map the features of the words to a certain dimension, and organize the question sentences into the form of a two-dimensional matrix similar to the image. Then, the trained word vectors are used as the input of the CNN for feature extraction. Finally, the Bagging integrated classification algorithm is used to replace the Softmax classification of the traditional CNN for classification. In other words, the good of W2V + B-CNN model is that it can make use of the advantages of CNN and Bagging integrated classification at the same time. Overall, the new model can not only use the powerful feature extraction capabilities of CNN to extract the potential features of natural language questions but also use the good data classification capabilities of the integrated classification algorithm for feature classification at the same time, which can help improve the accuracy of the W2V + B-CNN in the application of question classification. The comparative experiment results prove that the effect of the W2V + B-CNN is significantly better than that of the CNN and other classification algorithms in question classification.


2011 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delphine Bernhard ◽  
Bruno Cartoni ◽  
Delphine Tribout

Morphology is a key component for many Language Technology applications. However, morphological relations, especially those relying on the derivation and compounding processes, are often addressed in a superficial manner. In this article, we focus on assessing the relevance of deep and motivated morphological knowledge in Natural Language Processing applications. We first describe an annotation experiment whose goal is to evaluate the role of morphology for one task, namely Question Answering (QA). We then highlight the kind of linguistic knowledge that is necessary for this particular task and propose a qualitative analysis of morphological phenomena in order to identify the morphological processes that are most relevant. Based on this study, we perform an intrinsic evaluation of existing tools and resources for French morphology, in order to quantify their coverage. Our conclusions provide helpful insights for using and building appropriate morphological resources and tools that could have a significant impact on the application performance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 1779-1783
Author(s):  
Rahul Parhi ◽  
Robert D. Nowak

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