An Experimental Study of Deep Neural Network Models for Vietnamese Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a challenging task in natural language processing that makes computers understanding natural language texts and answer questions based on those texts. There are many techniques for solving this problems, and word representation is a very important technique that impact most to the accuracy of machine reading comprehension problem in the popular languages like English and Chinese. However, few studies on MRC have been conducted in low-resource languages such as Vietnamese. In this paper, we conduct several experiments on neural network-based model to understand the impact of word representation to the Vietnamese multiple-choice machine reading comprehension. Our experiments include using the Co-match model on six different Vietnamese word embeddings and the BERT model for multiple-choice reading comprehension. On the ViMMRC corpus, the accuracy of BERT model is 61.28% on test set.

New Vietnamese Corpus for Machine ReadingComprehension of Health News Articles

Although over 95 million people in the world speak the Vietnamese language, there are not any large and qualified datasets for automatic reading comprehension. In addition, machine reading comprehension for the health domain offers great potential for practical applications; however, there is still very little machine reading comprehension research in this domain. In this study, we present ViNewsQA as a new corpus for the low-resource Vietnamese language to evaluate models of machine reading comprehension. The corpus comprises 10,138 human-generated question-answer pairs. Crowdworkers created the questions and answers based on a set of over 2,030 online Vietnamese news articles from the VnExpress news website, where the answers comprised spans extracted from the corresponding articles. In particular, we developed a process of creating a corpus for the Vietnamese language. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrated that our corpus requires abilities beyond simple reasoning such as word matching, as well as demanding difficult reasoning similar to inferences based on single-or-multiple-sentence information. We conducted experiments using state-of-the-art methods for machine reading comprehension to obtain the first baseline performance measures, which will be compared with further models' performances. We measured human performance based on the corpus and compared it with several strong neural models. Our experiments showed that the best model was BERT, which achieved an exact match score of 57.57% and F1-score of 76.90% on our corpus. The significant difference between humans and the best model (F1-score of 15.93%) on the test set of our corpus indicates that improvements in ViNewsQA can be explored in future research. Our corpus is freely available on our website in order to encourage the research community to make these improvements.

Job Prediction: From Deep Neural Network Models to Applications

Determining the job is suitable for a student or a person looking for work based on their job's descriptions such as knowledge and skills that are difficult, as well as how employers must find ways to choose the candidates that match the job they require. In this paper, we focus on studying the job prediction using different deep neural network models including TextCNN, Bi-GRU-LSTM-CNN, and Bi-GRU-CNN with various pre-trained word embeddings on the IT Job dataset. In addition, we also proposed a simple and effective ensemble model combining different deep neural network models. The experimental results illustrated that our proposed ensemble model achieved the highest result with an F1 score of 72.71%. Moreover, we analyze these experimental results to have insights about this problem to find better solutions in the future.

A Pilot Study on Multiple Choice Machine Reading Comprehension for Vietnamese Texts

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is the task of natural language processing which studies the ability to read and understand unstructured texts and then find the correct answers for questions. Until now, we have not yet had any MRC dataset for such a low-resource language as Vietnamese. In this paper, we introduce ViMMRC, a challenging machine comprehension corpus with multiple-choice questions, intended for research on the machine comprehension of Vietnamese text. This corpus includes 2,783 multiple-choice questions and answers based on a set of 417 Vietnamese texts used for teaching reading comprehension for 1st to 5th graders. Answers may be extracted from the contents of single or multiple sentences in the corresponding reading text. A thorough analysis of the corpus and experimental results in this paper illustrate that our corpus ViMMRC demands reasoning abilities beyond simple word matching. We proposed the method of Boosted Sliding Window (BSW) that improves 5.51% in accuracy over the best baseline method. We also measured human performance on the corpus and compared it to our MRC models. The performance gap between humans and our best experimental model indicates that significant progress can be made on Vietnamese machine reading comprehension in further research. The corpus is freely available at our website for research purposes.

Hate Speech Detection on Vietnamese Social Media Text using the Bi-GRU-LSTM-CNN Model

In recent years, Hate Speech Detection has become one of the interesting fields in natural language processing or computational linguistics. In this paper, we present the description of our system to solve this problem at the VLSP shared task 2019: Hate Speech Detection on Social Networks with the corpus which contains 20,345 human-labeled comments/posts for training and 5,086 for public-testing. We implement a deep learning method based on the Bi-GRU-LSTM-CNN classifier into this task. Our result in this task is 70.576% of F1-score, ranking the 5th of performance on public-test set.

Hate Speech Detection on Vietnamese Social Media Text using the Bidirectional-LSTM Model

In this paper, we describe our system which participates in the shared task of Hate Speech Detection on Social Networks of VLSP 2019 evaluation campaign. We are provided with the pre-labeled dataset and an unlabeled dataset for social media comments or posts. Our mission is to pre-process and build machine learning models to classify comments/posts. In this report, we use Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory to build the model that can predict labels for social media text according to Clean, Offensive, Hate. With this system, we achieve comparative results with 71.43% on the public standard test set of VLSP 2019.