Relational Gating for ''What If'' Reasoning

Zheng, Chen; Kordjamshidi, Parisa

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2021/553

Relational Gating for ''What If'' Reasoning

Chen Zheng, Parisa Kordjamshidi

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Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Main Track. Pages 4015-4022.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/553

Keywords

Natural Language Processing: Question Answering

Abstract

This paper addresses the challenge of learning to do procedural reasoning over text to answer "What if..." questions. We propose a novel relational gating network that learns to filter the key entities and relationships and learns contextual and cross representations of both procedure and question for finding the answer. Our relational gating network contains an entity gating module, relation gating module, and contextual interaction module. These modules help in solving the "What if..." reasoning problem. We show that modeling pairwise relationships helps to capture higher-order relations and find the line of reasoning for causes and effects in the procedural descriptions. Our proposed approach achieves the state-of-the-art results on the WIQA dataset.

Chen Zheng, and Parisa Kordjamshidi. 2021. Relational Gating for ''What If'' Reasoning. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-21. IJCAI, 4015–4022. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/553

@inproceedings{ijcai2021p553,
  title     = {Relational Gating for ''What If'' Reasoning},
  author    = {Zheng, Chen and Kordjamshidi, Parisa},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-21}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou},
  pages     = {4015--4022},
  year      = {2021},
  month     = {8},
  note      = {Main Track},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2021/553},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/553},
}

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