How to Answer Questions with Machine Learning

A look into the SQuAD dataset, its top NLP models, and whether they are overfitting.

Have you ever wanted to build an algorithm that does your homework? While the tech isn’t there yet, we’re getting close.

Figure 1: models with top exact match (EM) scores on the SQuAD 2.0 dataset —src. Image by author.

In 2016, researchers at Stanford released a question answering dataset to train NLP models. Since then, there have been hundreds of models submitted, each …

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