Question Answering and Some Deep Learning Methods Involved

summer courses, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Computer Science and Technology, 2019

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Introduction

Question answering (QA) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), which is concerned with building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural language.

Classification

QA is not a single atom task but a assembling application which is composed by a group of technical components and has various forms. Moreover, different forms have very different technical roadmaps.

Looking forward

  • Knowledge + NN (as human beings)
  • Transferring leaning QA
  • Commonsense based QA
  • Unsupervised QA