Multi-hop reading comprehension (RC) across documents poses new challenge over singledocument RC because it requires reasoning over multiple documents to reach the final answer. In this paper, we propose a new model to tackle the multi-hop RC problem. We introduce a heterogeneous graph with different types of nodes and edges, which is named as Heterogeneous Document-Entity (HDE) graph. The advantage of HDE graph is that it contains different granularity levels of information including candidates, documents and entities in specific document contexts. Our proposed model can do reasoning over the HDE graph with nodes representation initialized with co-attention and self-attention based context encoders. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNN) based message passing algorithms to accumulate evidences on the proposed HDE graph. Evaluated on the blind test set of the Qangaroo WIKIHOP data set, our HDE graph based model (single model) achieves state-of-the-art result.
The study in REF ) proposed a heterogeneous graph including document, candidate and entity nodes to enable rich information interaction at different granularity levels.
Multi-hop Reading Comprehension across Multiple Documents by Reasoning over Heterogeneous Graphs
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