# Science Question Answering using Instructional Materials

Source: [Science Question Answering using Instructional Materials](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa62671e209131ce9f92bc>)

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Authors: Mrinmaya Sachan, Avinava Dubey, Eric P. Xing

Published: 2016-02-13T20:13:48.000Z

## Abstract

We provide a solution for elementary science test using instructional materials. We posit that there is a hidden structure that explains the correctness of an answer given the question and instructional materials and present a unified max-margin framework that learns to find these hidden structures (given a corpus of question-answer pairs and instructional materials), and uses what it learns to answer novel elementary science questions. Our evaluation shows that our framework outperforms several strong baselines.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04375>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04375.pdf>)