Adversarial Training for Community Question Answer Selection Based on Multi-Scale Matching

Community-based question answering (CQA) websites represent an important source of information. As a result, the problem of matching the most valuable answers to their corresponding questions has become an increasingly popular research topic. We frame this task as a binary (relevant/irrelevant) classification problem, and present an adversarial training framework to alleviate label imbalance issue. We employ a generative model to iteratively sample a subset of challenging negative samples to fool our classification model. Both models are alternatively optimized using REIN- FORCE algorithm. The proposed method is completely different from previous ones, where negative samples in training set are directly used or uniformly down-sampled. Further, we propose using Multi-scale Matching which explicitly inspects the correlation between words and ngrams of different levels of granularity. We evaluate the proposed method on SemEval 2016 and SemEval 2017 datasets and achieves state-of-the-art or similar performance.

Authors

• Xiao Yang Nanyang Technological University
• Madian Khabsa Meta AI
• Miaosen Wang
• Wei Wang
• Ahmed Hassan Awadallah Microsoft
• Daniel Kifer The Pennsylvania State University
• C. Lee Giles The Pennsylvania State University

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