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Revisiting the Primacy of English in Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer
Iulia Turc, Kenton Lee, Jacob Eisenstein +2
Despite their success, large pre-trained multilingual models have not completely alleviated the need for labeled data, which is cumbersome to collect for all target languages. Zero…
Joint Passage Ranking for Diverse Multi-Answer Retrieval
Sewon Min, Kenton Lee, Ming-Wei Chang +2
We study multi-answer retrieval, an under-explored problem that requires retrieving passages to cover multiple distinct answers for a given question. This task requires joint model…
Representations for Question Answering from Documents with Tables and Text
Vicky Zayats, Kristina Toutanova, Mari Ostendorf
Tables in Web documents are pervasive and can be directly used to answer many of the queries searched on the Web, motivating their integration in question answering. Very often inf…
Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised Document-Level Question Answering
Hao Cheng, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee +1
We address the problem of extractive question answering using document-level distant super-vision, pairing questions and relevant documents with answer strings. We compare previous…
Sparse, Dense, and Attentional Representations for Text Retrieval
Yi Luan, Jacob Eisenstein, Kristina Toutanova +1
Dual encoders perform retrieval by encoding documents and queries into dense lowdimensional vectors, scoring each document by its inner product with the query. We investigate the c…
Well-Read Students Learn Better: On the Importance of Pre-training Compact Models
Iulia Turc, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee +1
Recent developments in natural language representations have been accompanied by large and expensive models that leverage vast amounts of general-domain text through self-supervise…