Question Answering in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
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This is a class project for the course 'Computational Linguistics I' at UBC. We worked in a group of 2 people and wrote a report. This is a Pedagogical Project which aims at teaching a particular topic in NLP, so in addition to the report, a lecture presentation and a sample homework (which includes a coding problem) is also provided.
Abstract is given below:
Question answering is a field of natural language processing, that involves methods which enable computer systems to understand and answer human questions, in natural language. It is an area which has many practical and important applications. This project report presents the review of question answering from a pedagogical perspective. An overview of the learning goals, description of methods for question answering including current state-of-the-art methods, evaluation metrics and the current research progress in this field are given. In addition, lecture slides and an assignment for the question answering topic are provided. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of question answering theoretically and look for future directions from a research point of view. In conclusion, we provide some challenges we faced during the course of building this project material and suggest options for developing an end-to-end question answering coding project.
Links to the files are given below:
Report.
Presentation.
Sample homework.
Abstract is given below:
Question answering is a field of natural language processing, that involves methods which enable computer systems to understand and answer human questions, in natural language. It is an area which has many practical and important applications. This project report presents the review of question answering from a pedagogical perspective. An overview of the learning goals, description of methods for question answering including current state-of-the-art methods, evaluation metrics and the current research progress in this field are given. In addition, lecture slides and an assignment for the question answering topic are provided. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of question answering theoretically and look for future directions from a research point of view. In conclusion, we provide some challenges we faced during the course of building this project material and suggest options for developing an end-to-end question answering coding project.
Links to the files are given below:
Report.
Presentation.
Sample homework.