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AutoQA: From Databases To QA Semantic Parsers With Only Synthetic Training Data

Silei Xu, Sina J. Semnani, Giovanni Campagna, Monica S. LamPublished Jan 1, 2020
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Abstract

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We propose AutoQA, a methodology and toolkit to generate semantic parsers that answer questions on databases, with no manual effort. Given a database schema and its data, AutoQA automatically generates a large set of high-quality questions for training that covers different database operations. It uses automatic paraphrasing combined with templatebased parsing to find alternative expressions of an attribute in different parts of speech. It also uses a novel filtered auto-paraphraser to generate correct paraphrases of entire sentences.

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We propose AutoQA, a methodology and toolkit to generate semantic parsers that answer questions on databases, with no manual effort.

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Tasks

Computer science, Paraphrase, Parsing, Generality, Database schema, Training set, Logical form, Database

Methods

Schema (genetic algorithms), Information retrieval

Domains

Natural language processing, Artificial intelligence

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