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Macaw

5 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Oyvind Tafjord et al. in General-Purpose Question-Answering with Macaw

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

Macaw is a generative question-answering (QA) system that is built on UnifiedQA, itself built on T5. Macaw has three interesting features. First, it often produces high-quality answers to questions far outside the domain it was trained on, sometimes surprisingly so. Second, Macaw allows different permutations (“an gles”) of inputs and outputs to be used. For example, we can give it a question and get an answer; or give it an answer and get a question; or give it a question and answer and get a set of multiple-choice (MC) options for that question. This multi-angle QA capability allows versatility in the way Macaw can be used, include recursively using outputs as new inputs to the system. Finally, Macaw also generates explanations as an optional output (or even input) element.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

8 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Question Answering4
Generative Question Answering1
Logical Reasoning1
Multiple-choice1
Natural Language Inference1
Negation1
Survey1
Visual Question Answering (VQA)1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Macaw: 2021 to 2025, peak 2 2 0 2021: 2 papers 2021 2022: 2 papers 2022 2023: 0 papers 2023 2024: 0 papers 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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