Master’s Thesis Presentation: Simple Convolutional Neural Networks with Linguistically-Annotated Input for Answer Selection in Question Answering
Royal Sequiera, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
With the advent of deep learning methods, researchers are abandoning decades-old work in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The research community has been increasingly moving away from otherwise dominant feature engineering approaches; rather, it is gravitating towards more complicated neural architectures. Highly competitive tools like Parts-of-Speech taggers that exhibit human-like accuracy are traded for complex networks, with the hope that the neural network will learn the features needed. In fact, there have been efforts to do NLP "from scratch" with neural networks that altogether eschew featuring engineering based tools (Collobert et al., 2011).