MemSum-DQA: Adapting An Efficient Long Document Extractive Summarizer for Document Question Answering
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2023-10-10
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We introduce MemSum-DQA, an efficient system for document question answering (DQA) that leverages MemSum, a long document extractive summarizer. By prefixing each text block in the parsed document with the provided question and question type, MemSum-DQA selectively extracts text blocks as answers from documents. On full-document answering tasks, this approach yields a 9% improvement in exact match accuracy over prior state-of-the-art baselines. Notably, MemSum-DQA excels in addressing questions related to child-relationship understanding, underscoring the potential of extractive summarization techniques for DQA tasks.
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2310.06436
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Cornell University
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Computation and Language (cs.CL); FOS: Computer and information sciences; Document understanding; Question answering
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03774 - Hahnloser, Richard H.R. / Hahnloser, Richard H.R.