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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas Mieczyslaw Kwiatkowski, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Ankur P. Parikh, New York, NY (US);
Swabha Swayamdipta, Seattle, WA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting a text span from an input electronic document that answers an input question. One of the methods includes obtaining a respective first numeric representations of text spans in the input document; for each of the text spans: determining, for a segment that contains the text span, a question-aware segment vector, determining, for the question, a segment-aware question vector, and processing the first numeric representation of the text span, the question-aware segment vector, and the segment-aware question vector using a second feedforward neural network to generate a second numeric representation of the text span; for each unique text span in the plurality of text spans: determining an aggregate representation for the unique text span, and determining, from the aggregate representation, a final score for the unique text span; and selecting a unique text span.