Dependency Relation Matching in
QA
• Tried before
– PIQASso and MIT systems have applied dependency
relations in QA.
– Used exact match of relations to extract answers
directly.
• Why need to consider dependency relations?
– An upper bound of 70% for answer extraction (Light
et al., 2001)
• Many NE’s with the same type appearing close to
each other.
– Some questions don’t have NE-type targets.
• E.g. what does AARP stand for?