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Identifying Well-formed Natural Language Questions

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arxiv 1808.09419 v1 pith:IX3Y6JVY submitted 2018-08-28 cs.CL

classification cs.CL
keywords well-formedidentifyinglanguagenaturalqueryquestionsquestionunderstanding
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Understanding search queries is a hard problem as it involves dealing with "word salad" text ubiquitously issued by users. However, if a query resembles a well-formed question, a natural language processing pipeline is able to perform more accurate interpretation, thus reducing downstream compounding errors. Hence, identifying whether or not a query is well formed can enhance query understanding. Here, we introduce a new task of identifying a well-formed natural language question. We construct and release a dataset of 25,100 publicly available questions classified into well-formed and non-wellformed categories and report an accuracy of 70.7% on the test set. We also show that our classifier can be used to improve the performance of neural sequence-to-sequence models for generating questions for reading comprehension.

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