CAM 2.0: End-to-End Open Domain Comparative Question Answering System
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Abstract
Comparative Question Answering (CompQA) is a Natural Language Processing task that combines Question Answering and Argument Mining approaches to answer subjective comparative questions in an efficient argumentative manner. In this paper, we present an end-to-end (full pipeline) system for answering comparative questions called CAM 2.0 as well as a public leaderboard called CompUGE that unifies the existing datasets under a single easy-to-use evaluation suite. As compared to previous web-form-based CompQA systems, it features question identification, object and aspect labeling, stance classification, and summarization using up-to-date models. We also select the most time- and memory-effective pipeline by comparing separately fine-tuned Transformer Encoder models which show state-of-the-art performance on the subtasks with Generative LLMs in few-shot and LoRA setups. We also conduct a user study for a whole-system evaluation.