Adobe Inc.
READER-RETRIEVER APPROACH FOR QUESTION ANSWERING

Abstract:

Techniques and systems are provided for predicting answers in response to one or more input queries. For instance, text from a corpus of text can be processed by a reader to generate one or multiple question and answer spaces. A question and answer space can include answerable questions and the answers associated with the questions (referred to as "question and answer pairs"). A query defining a question can be received (e.g., from a user input device) and processed by a retriever portion of the system. The retriever portion of the system can retrieve an answer to the question from the one or more pre-constructed question and answer spaces, and/or can determine an answer by comparing one or more answers retrieved from the one or more pre-constructed question and answer spaces to an answer generated by a retriever-reader system.