TextGraphs 2020 Shared Task on Multi-Hop Inference for Explanation Regeneration

Peter Jansen, Dmitry Ustalov

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Abstract

The 2020 Shared Task on Multi-Hop Inference for Explanation Regeneration tasks participants with regenerating large detailed multi-fact explanations for standardized science exam questions. Given a question, correct answer, and knowledge base, models must rank each fact in the knowledge base such that facts most likely to appear in the explanation are ranked highest. Explanations consist of an average of 6 (and as many as 16) facts that span both core scientific knowledge and world knowledge, and form an explicit lexically-connected “explanation graph” describing how the facts interrelate. In this second iteration of the explanation regeneration shared task, participants are supplied with more than double the training and evaluation data of the first shared task, as well as a knowledge base nearly double in size, both of which expand into more challenging scientific topics that increase the difficulty of the task. In total 10 teams participated, and 5 teams submitted system description papers. The best-performing teams significantly increased state-of-the-art performance both in terms of ranking (mean average precision) and inference speed on this challenge task.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCOLING 2020 - Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 14th Workshop, TextGraphs 2020
EditorsDmitry Ustalov, Swapna Somasundaran, Alexander Panchenko, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, Ioana Hulpus, Peter Jansen, Abhik Jana
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Pages85-97
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148422
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event14th Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing, TextGraphs 2020, in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020 - Virtual, Online, Spain
Duration: Dec 13 2020 → …

Publication series

NameCOLING 2020 - Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 14th Workshop, TextGraphs 2020

Conference

Conference14th Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing, TextGraphs 2020, in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityVirtual, Online
Period12/13/20 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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