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Two-Stage Synthesis Networks for Transfer Learning in Machine Comprehension

29 Jun 2017EMNLP 2017 9arXiv:1706.09789archive 2025-07-28

David Golub, Po-Sen Huang, Xiaodong He, Li Deng

We develop a technique for transfer learning in machine comprehension (MC) using a novel two-stage synthesis network (SynNet). Given a high-performing MC model in one domain, our technique aims to answer questions about documents in another domain, where we use no labeled data of question-answer pairs. Using the proposed SynNet with a pretrained model from the SQuAD dataset on the challenging NewsQA dataset, we achieve an F1 measure of 44.3% with a single model and 46.6% with an ensemble, approaching performance of in-domain models (F1 measure of 50.0%) and outperforming the out-of-domain baseline of 7.6%, without use of provided annotations.

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