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Question Answering with Texts and Tables Through Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Author(s):
Jose, Marcos M. ; Cacao, Flavio N. ; Ribeiro, Maria F. ; Cheang, Rafael M. ; Pirozelli, Paulo ; Cozman, Fabio G.
Total Authors: 6
Document type: Journal article
Source: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, BRACIS 2024, PT II; v. 15413, p. 15-pg., 2025-01-01.
Abstract

This paper proposes a novel architecture to generate multi-hop answers to open domain questions that require information from texts and tables, using the Open Table-and-Text Question Answering dataset for validation and training. One of the most common ways to generate answers in this setting is to retrieve information sequentially, where a selected piece of data helps searching for the next piece. As different models can have distinct behaviors when called in this sequential information search, a challenge is how to select models at each step. Our architecture employs reinforcement learning to choose between different state-of-the-art tools sequentially until, in the end, a desired answer is generated. This system achieved an F1-score of 19.03, comparable to iterative systems in the literature. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 19/07665-4 - Center for Artificial Intelligence
Grantee:Fabio Gagliardi Cozman
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Program in eScience and Data Science - Research Centers in Engineering Program
FAPESP's process: 19/26762-0 - Logical Structures in Argumentation
Grantee:Paulo Pirozelli Almeida Silva
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral