CoQAR: Question Rewriting on CoQA

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03240v1
• Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 11:47:22 GMT
• Title: CoQAR: Question Rewriting on CoQA
• Authors: Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona
• Abstract summary: CoQAR is a corpus containing $4.5$K conversations from the Conversational Question-Answering dataset CoQA. CoQAR can be used in the supervised learning of three tasks: question paraphrasing, question rewriting and conversational question answering.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Questions asked by humans during a conversation often contain contextual dependencies, i.e., explicit or implicit references to previous dialogue turns. These dependencies take the form of coreferences (e.g., via pronoun use) or ellipses, and can make the understanding difficult for automated systems. One way to facilitate the understanding and subsequent treatments of a question is to rewrite it into an out-of-context form, i.e., a form that can be understood without the conversational context. We propose CoQAR, a corpus containing $4.5$K conversations from the Conversational Question-Answering dataset CoQA, for a total of $53$K follow-up question-answer pairs. Each original question was manually annotated with at least 2 at most 3 out-of-context rewritings. CoQAR can be used in the supervised learning of three tasks: question paraphrasing, question rewriting and conversational question answering. In order to assess the quality of CoQAR's rewritings, we conduct several experiments consisting in training and evaluating models for these three tasks. Our results support the idea that question rewriting can be used as a preprocessing step for question answering models, thereby increasing their performances.

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