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deepsquirrelnet • today at 3:54 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

> 1 - Is the document about desks designed for children?

> 2 - Does the document offer products or information on kids’ desks?

> ...

> 9 - Are brands or models of children’s desks listed?

> 10 - Does it cover where to buy or how to choose a desk for kids?

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> Each of these can be turned into a noul question. P(yes) of each can be summed to score overall relevance

It seems to me that this is a rediscovery of natural language inference (NLI), which was very active in NLP research pre-LLMs. I have a side hobby of training NLI cross encoders, and I'd bet that many of these use cases could be serviced by a good quality small NLI model.

See: https://huggingface.co/dleemiller/finecat-nli-v2-l

And also: "Less Annotating, More Classifying: Addressing the Data Scarcity Issue of Supervised Machine Learning with Deep Transfer Learning and BERT-NLI" https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Less-Annotating%2C-Mor...