SRCH:B6A7F763
What is the impact of back-translation paraphrasing techniques on QA model generalization across different mod
Abstract
Abstract: To produce a domain-agnostic question answering model for the Machine Reading Question Answering (MRQA) 2019 Shared Task, we investigate the relative benefits of large pre-trained language models, various data sampling strategies, as well as query and context paraphrases generated by back-translation. We find a simple negative sampling technique to be particularly effective, even though it is typically used for datasets that include unanswerable questions, such as SQuAD 2.0. When applied in conjunction with per-domain sampling, our XLNet (Yang et al., 2019)-based submission achieved the second
Research Question
What is the impact of back-translation paraphrasing techniques on QA model generalization across different model scales and sampling strategies in domain-agnostic question answering tasks?
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| Citation grounding | MEDIUM | |
| Uncertainty disclosure | MEDIUM | |
| Reproducibility status | MEDIUM |
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| Claim lineage | 13 aggregate source-grounded claims |
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