Improving the BERT Model with Proposed Named Entity Recognition Method for Question Answering

Abstract

Recently, the analysis of textual data has gained importance due to the increase in comments made on web platforms and the need for ready-made answering systems. Therefore, there are many studies in the fields of natural language processing such as text summarization and question answering. In this paper, the accuracy of the BERT language model is analyzed for the question answering domain, which allows to automatically answer a question asked. Using SQuAD, one of the reading comprehension datasets, the answers to the questions that the BERT model cannot answer are researched with the proposed Named Entity Recognition method in natural language processing. The accuracy of BERT models used with the proposed Named Entity Recognition method increases between 1.7% and 2.7%. As a result of the analysis, it is shown that the BERT model doesn’t use Named Entity Recognition technique sufficiently.