This work started as an attempt to reproduce Yu et al.'s http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1632

Used word embeddings: pre-trained GloVe vectors from http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/

So far implemented:

• Bag of words + basic gradient descent learning classification
• Bag of words + basic gradient descent learning classification + word counts logistic regression

For sentence selection development, used dataset: TREC-based originally by Wang et al., 2007; in the form by Yao et al., 2013 as downloaded from https://code.google.com/p/jacana/

Preprocessing (not required):

• Run save.py first with updated filepath constants (const.py) if you have different dataset (requires jacana formating)

Train and test:

• Run train.py for training from TREC TRAIN dataset and testing from TREC TEST dataset

• train.py generates truth.txt and res.txt, to evaluate using the official trec_eval tool, run

  trec_eval -a truth.txt res.txt

TODO:

• CNN instead of bag of words unigram averaging for aggregate embeddings.

Results (evaluated using stock TREC scripts):

Folow these steps if you want to retrain currently used weights:

• Gather input data (labelled tuples) according to the instructions in YodaQA data/ml/embsel/README.md.

• Run './std_run.sh -p PATH' (PATH is the directory of dumped yodaqa files). You can alter the training constants in basicgrad.py and train.py.

• If you are happy with the results, you copy the generated file data/Mbtemp.txt to yodaqa src/main/resources/cz/brmlab/yodaqa/analysis/rdf/Mbprop.txt

In summary, use this:

./std_run.sh -p ../yodaqa/data/ml/embsel/propdata
cp data/Mbtemp.txt ../yodaqa/src/main/resources/cz/brmlab/yodaqa/analysis/rdf/Mbprop.txt

(With a random 1:1 train:test split of the original curated-train.)

Used dataset:

train questions: 270 train sentences: 19624	(generated with curated-measure.sh train)
test questions: 222 test sentences: 17561	(generated with curated-measure.sh train)
2.7902739024% of the properties contains correct answers
random test mrr = 0.0475542678953

Current results:

MMR after unigram learning train: 0.600856454434
MMR after unigram learning test: 0.582881935037

Folow these steps if you want to retrain currently used weights:

• Gather input data (labelled tuples) according to the instructions in YodaQA data/ml/embsel/README.md.

• Run './std_run.sh -p PATH' (PATH is the directory of dumped yodaqa files). You can alter the training constants in basicgrad.py and train.py.

• If you are happy with the results, you copy the generated file data/Mbtemp.txt to yodaqa src/main/resources/cz/brmlab/yodaqa/analysis/passextract/Mb.txt

In summary, use this (with YodaQA's f/sentence-selection branch):

./std_run.sh ../yodaqa/data/ml/embsel/sentdata
cp data/Mbtemp.txt ../yodaqa/src/main/resources/cz/brmlab/yodaqa/analysis/passextract/Mb.txt

(With a random 1:1 train:test split of the original curated-train.)

Used dataset:

train questions: 186 train sentences: 43843	(generated with curated-measure.sh train)
test questions: 429 test sentences: 88779	(generated with curated-measure.sh test)
5.21294450264% of the properties contains correct answers
random test mrr = 0.0760195275186

Current results:

baseline (clue1+0.25*clue2):

MRR unigram+clues train 0.249327071552
MRR unigram+clues test 0.29659580682

glove only:

MMR after unigram learning train: 0.224787152966
MMR after unigram learning test: 0.222749753007

glove+clue1:

MRR unigram+clues train 0.358206351223
MRR unigram+clues test 0.388948882077