Retrieving and reading: A comprehensive survey on open-domain question answering

F Zhu, W Lei, C Wang, J Zheng, S Poria… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Open-domain Question Answering (OpenQA) is an important task in Natural Language
Processing (NLP), which aims to answer a question in the form of natural language based …

Paraphrase generation: A survey of the state of the art

J Zhou, S Bhat - Proceedings of the 2021 conference on empirical …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
This paper focuses on paraphrase generation, which is a widely studied natural language
generation task in NLP. With the development of neural models, paraphrase generation …

A deep generative framework for paraphrase generation

A Gupta, A Agarwal, P Singh, P Rai - … of the aaai conference on artificial …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
Paraphrase generation is an important problem in NLP, especially in question answering,
information retrieval, information extraction, conversation systems, to name a few. In this …

Neural paraphrase generation with stacked residual LSTM networks

A Prakash, SA Hasan, K Lee, V Datla, A Qadir… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a novel neural approach for paraphrase generation. Conventional
para-phrase generation methods either leverage hand-written rules and thesauri-based …

[PDF][PDF] Sentence simplification by monolingual machine translation

S Wubben, A Van Den Bosch… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we describe a method for simplifying sentences using Phrase Based Machine
Translation, augmented with a re-ranking heuristic based on dissimilarity, and trained on a …

Transformer models used for text-based question answering systems

K Nassiri, M Akhloufi - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
The question answering system is frequently applied in the area of natural language
processing (NLP) because of the wide variety of applications. It consists of answering …

Submodular optimization-based diverse paraphrasing and its effectiveness in data augmentation

A Kumar, S Bhattamishra, M Bhandari… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Inducing diversity in the task of paraphrasing is an important problem in NLP with
applications in data augmentation and conversational agents. Previous paraphrasing …

Syntax-guided controlled generation of paraphrases

A Kumar, K Ahuja, R Vadapalli… - Transactions of the …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Given a sentence (eg,“I like mangoes”) and a constraint (eg, sentiment flip), the goal of
controlled text generation is to produce a sentence that adapts the input sentence to meet …

Split and rephrase

S Narayan, C Gardent, SB Cohen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
We propose a new sentence simplification task (Split-and-Rephrase) where the aim is to
split a complex sentence into a meaning preserving sequence of shorter sentences. Like …

[PDF][PDF] Learning to simplify sentences using wikipedia

W Coster, D Kauchak - … of the workshop on monolingual text-to …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we examine the sentence simplification problem as an English-to-English
translation problem, utilizing a corpus of 137K aligned sentence pairs extracted by aligning …