Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20320
Publication type: Conference paper
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: DoQA : accessing domain-specific FAQs via conversational QA
Authors: Campos, Jon Ander
Otegi, Arantxa
Soroa, Aitor
Deriu, Jan Milan
Cieliebak, Mark
Agirre, Eneko
et. al: No
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.652
10.21256/zhaw-20320
Proceedings: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Page(s): 7302
Pages to: 7314
Conference details: 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), online, 5-10 July 2020
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher / Ed. Institution: Association for Computational Linguistics
Language: English
Subjects: Question answering; Deep learning; Natural language processing
Subject (DDC): 006: Special computer methods
400: Language, linguistics
Abstract: The goal of this work is to build conversational Question Answering (QA) interfaces for the large body of domain-specific information available in FAQ sites. We present DoQA, a dataset with 2,437 dialogues and 10,917 QA pairs. The dialogues are collected from three Stack Exchange sites using the Wizard of Oz method with crowdsourcing. Compared to previous work, DoQA comprises well-defined information needs, leading to more coherent and natural conversations with less factoid questions and is multi-domain. In addition, we introduce a more realistic information retrieval (IR) scenario where the system needs to find the answer in any of the FAQ documents. The results of an existing, strong, system show that, thanks to transfer learning from a Wikipedia QA dataset and fine tuning on a single FAQ domain, it is possible to build high quality conversational QA systems for FAQs without in-domain training data. The good results carry over into the more challenging IR scenario. In both cases, there is still ample room for improvement, as indicated by the higher human upperbound.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/20320
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement: School of Engineering
Organisational Unit: Institute of Computer Science (InIT)
Published as part of the ZHAW project: LIHLITH - Learning to Interact with Humans by Lifelong Interaction with Humans
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Campos, J. A., Otegi, A., Soroa, A., Deriu, J. M., Cieliebak, M., & Agirre, E. (2020). DoQA : accessing domain-specific FAQs via conversational QA [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 7302–7314. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.652
Campos, J.A. et al. (2020) ‘DoQA : accessing domain-specific FAQs via conversational QA’, in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 7302–7314. Available at: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.652.
J. A. Campos, A. Otegi, A. Soroa, J. M. Deriu, M. Cieliebak, and E. Agirre, “DoQA : accessing domain-specific FAQs via conversational QA,” in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, pp. 7302–7314. doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.652.
CAMPOS, Jon Ander, Arantxa OTEGI, Aitor SOROA, Jan Milan DERIU, Mark CIELIEBAK und Eneko AGIRRE, 2020. DoQA : accessing domain-specific FAQs via conversational QA. In: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Conference paper. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020. S. 7302–7314
Campos, Jon Ander, Arantxa Otegi, Aitor Soroa, Jan Milan Deriu, Mark Cieliebak, and Eneko Agirre. 2020. “DoQA : Accessing Domain-Specific FAQs via Conversational QA.” Conference paper. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 7302–14. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.652.
Campos, Jon Ander, et al. “DoQA : Accessing Domain-Specific FAQs via Conversational QA.” Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, pp. 7302–14, https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.652.


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