A survey on machine reading comprehension systems

R Baradaran, R Ghiasi, H Amirkhani - Natural Language Engineering, 2022 - cambridge.org
Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is a challenging task and hot topic in Natural
Language Processing. The goal of this field is to develop systems for answering the …

MRQA 2019 shared task: Evaluating generalization in reading comprehension

A Fisch, A Talmor, R Jia, M Seo, E Choi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We present the results of the Machine Reading for Question Answering (MRQA) 2019
shared task on evaluating the generalization capabilities of reading comprehension …

State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: a taxonomy and review

D Hupkes, M Giulianelli, V Dankers, M Artetxe… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The ability to generalise well is one of the primary desiderata of natural language
processing (NLP). Yet, what'good generalisation'entails and how it should be evaluated is …

The effect of natural distribution shift on question answering models

J Miller, K Krauth, B Recht… - … conference on machine …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
We build four new test sets for the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) and
evaluate the ability of question-answering systems to generalize to new data. Our first test …

Contrastive domain adaptation for question answering using limited text corpora

Z Yue, B Kratzwald, S Feuerriegel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2108.13854, 2021 - arxiv.org
Question generation has recently shown impressive results in customizing question
answering (QA) systems to new domains. These approaches circumvent the need for …

On the domain adaptation and generalization of pretrained language models: A survey

X Guo, H Yu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2211.03154, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in NLP are brought by a range of large-scale pretrained language models
(PLMs). These PLMs have brought significant performance gains for a range of NLP tasks …

Out-of-distribution generalization in natural language processing: Past, present, and future

L Yang, Y Song, X Ren, C Lyu, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Machine learning (ML) systems in natural language processing (NLP) face
significant challenges in generalizing to out-of-distribution (OOD) data, where the test …

[PDF][PDF] Unsupervised energy-based adversarial domain adaptation for cross-domain text classification

H Zou, J Yang, X Wu - Findings of the Association for …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Transferring knowledge from a label-rich domain (source domain) to a label-scarce domain
(target domain) for pervasive cross-domain Text Classification (TC) is a non-trivial task. To …

Domain adaptation for question answering via question classification

Z Yue, H Zeng, Z Kou, L Shang, D Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2209.04998, 2022 - arxiv.org
Question answering (QA) has demonstrated impressive progress in answering questions
from customized domains. Nevertheless, domain adaptation remains one of the most elusive …

Unsupervised domain adaptation via contrastive adversarial domain mixup: A case study on covid-19

H Zeng, Z Yue, L Shang, Y Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Training large deep learning (DL) models with high performance for natural language
downstream tasks usually requires rich-labeled data. However, in a real-world application of …