Relation Module for Non-Answerable Predictions on Reading Comprehension
Kevin J. Huang, Yun Tang, Jing Huang, Xiaodong He, Bowen Zhou · 2019
Machine reading comprehension (MRC) has attracted significant amounts of research attention recently, due to an increase of challenging reading comprehension datasets.In this paper, we aim to improve a MRC model's ability to determine whether a question has an answer in a given context (e.g. the recently proposed SQuAD 2.0 task).Our solution is a relation module that is adaptable to any MRC model.The relation module consists of both semantic extraction and relational information.We first extract high level semantics as objects from both question and context with multihead self-attentive pooling.These semantic objects are then passed to a relation network, which generates relationship scores for each object pair in a sentence.These scores are used to determine whether a question is nonanswerable.We test the relation module on the SQuAD 2.0 dataset using both the BiDAF and BERT models as baseline readers.We obtain 1.8% gain of F1 accuracy on top of the BiDAF reader, and 1.0% on top of the BERT base model.These results show the effectiveness of our relation module on MRC.