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Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

Transfer Learning for Closed Domain Question Answering in COVID-19

Author 1: Nur Rachmawati
Author 2: Evi Yulianti

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131234

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 13 Issue 12, 2022.

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Abstract: COVID-19 has been a popular issue around 2019 until today. Recently, there has been a lot of research being conducted to utilize a big amount of data discussing about COVID-19. In this work, we conduct a closed domain question answering (CDQA) task in COVID-19 using transfer learning technique. The transfer learning technique is adopted because a large benchmark for question answering about COVID-19 is still unavailable. Therefore, rich knowledge learned from a large benchmark of open domain QA are utilized using transfer learning to improve the performance of our CDQA system. We use retriever-reader framework for our CDQA system, and propose to use Sequential Dependence Model (SDM) as our retriever component to enhance the effectiveness of the system. Our result shows that the use of SDM retriever can improve the F-1 score of the state-of-the-art baseline CDQA system using BM25 and TF-IDF+cosine similarity retriever by 3,26% and 32,62%, respectively. The optimal parameter settings for our CDQA system are found to be as follows: using 20 top-ranked documents as the retriever’s output, five sentences as the passage length, and BERT-Large-Uncased model as the reader. In this optimal parameter setting, SDM retriever can improve the F-1 score of the state-of-the-art baseline CDQA system using BM25 by 5,06 % and TF-IDF+cosine similarity retriever by 24,94 %. Our last experiment then confirms the merit of using transfer learning, since our best-performing model (double fine-tune SQuAD and COVID-QA) is shown to gain eight times higher accuracy than the baseline method without using transfer learning. Further fine-tuning the transfer learning model using closed domain dataset (COVID-QA) can increase the accuracy of the transfer learning model that only fine-tuning with SQuAD by 27, 26%.

Keywords: COVID-19; closed domain question answering; sequential dependence model; transfer learning; BERT

Nur Rachmawati and Evi Yulianti, “Transfer Learning for Closed Domain Question Answering in COVID-19” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 13(12), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131234

@article{Rachmawati2022,
title = {Transfer Learning for Closed Domain Question Answering in COVID-19},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131234},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131234},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {13},
number = {12},
author = {Nur Rachmawati and Evi Yulianti}
}


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