Bridging Hierarchical and Sequential Context Modeling for Question-driven Extractive Answer Summarization
SIGIR '20: The 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval Virtual Event China July, 2020(2020)
摘要
Non-factoid question answering (QA) is one of the most extensive yet challenging application and research areas of retrieval-based question answering. In particular, answers to non-factoid questions can often be too lengthy and redundant to comprehend, which leads to the great demand on answer sumamrization in non-factoid QA. However, the multi-level interactions between QA pairs and the interrelation among different answer sentences are usually modeled separately on current answer summarization studies. In this paper, we propose a unified model to bridge hierarchical and sequential context modeling for question-driven extractive answer summarization. Specifically, we design a hierarchical compare-aggregate method to integrate the interaction between QA pairs in both word-level and sentence-level into the final question and answer representations. After that, we conduct the question-aware sequential extractor to produce a summary for the lengthy answer. Experimental results show that answer summarization benefits from both hierarchical and sequential context modeling and our method achieves superior performance on WikiHowQA and PubMedQA.
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