Unsupervised Multi-hop Question Answering by Question Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12623v2
• Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:48:29 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Multi-hop Question Answering by Question Generation
• Authors: Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Min-Yen Kan, William Yang Wang
• Abstract summary: MQA-QG is an unsupervised framework that can generate human-like multi-hop training data. Using only generated training data, we can train a competent multi-hop QA which achieves 61% and 83% of the supervised learning performance.
• Score: 108.61653629883753
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Obtaining training data for multi-hop question answering (QA) is time-consuming and resource-intensive. We explore the possibility to train a well-performed multi-hop QA model without referencing any human-labeled multi-hop question-answer pairs, i.e., unsupervised multi-hop QA. We propose MQA-QG, an unsupervised framework that can generate human-like multi-hop training data from both homogeneous and heterogeneous data sources. MQA-QG generates questions by first selecting/generating relevant information from each data source and then integrating the multiple information to form a multi-hop question. Using only generated training data, we can train a competent multi-hop QA which achieves 61% and 83% of the supervised learning performance for the HybridQA and the HotpotQA dataset, respectively. We also show that pretraining the QA system with the generated data would greatly reduce the demand for human-annotated training data. Our codes are publicly available at https://github.com/teacherpeterpan/Unsupervised-Multi-hop-QA.

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