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arxiv 1906.02916 v2 pith:M66SIQMV submitted 2019-06-07 cs.CL cs.AI

Multi-hop Reading Comprehension through Question Decomposition and Rescoring

classification cs.CL cs.AI
keywords sub-questionsdecompositionmulti-hopapproachcomprehensionquestionreadingrescoring
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Multi-hop Reading Comprehension (RC) requires reasoning and aggregation across several paragraphs. We propose a system for multi-hop RC that decomposes a compositional question into simpler sub-questions that can be answered by off-the-shelf single-hop RC models. Since annotations for such decomposition are expensive, we recast sub-question generation as a span prediction problem and show that our method, trained using only 400 labeled examples, generates sub-questions that are as effective as human-authored sub-questions. We also introduce a new global rescoring approach that considers each decomposition (i.e. the sub-questions and their answers) to select the best final answer, greatly improving overall performance. Our experiments on HotpotQA show that this approach achieves the state-of-the-art results, while providing explainable evidence for its decision making in the form of sub-questions.

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