Efficient Data Preprocessing for Extractive Question Answering Models
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abstract: Thisstudypresentsasystematicapproachtobuildingadomain-specificquestion-answering(QA)
dataset fromIndianLokSabhaparliamentaryproceedings,withaprimaryfocusonmeticulousdataprepro
cessing.Parliamentarytranscriptsareoftenlengthy,noisy,andunstructured,posingsignificantchallengesfor
downstreamnatural languageprocessing(NLP)tasks.Toaddressthis,wedesignedacomprehensiveprepro
cessingpipelineinvolvingcleaning,segmentation,annotation,normalization,andtokenizationtoconvertraw
transcriptsintostructured,high-qualityQA-readydata.Eachstepwastailoredtothelinguisticandstructural
characteristicsofparliamentarytext. Experimentalevaluationthroughanablationstudydemonstratedthat
ourpreprocessingpipeline ledtoasignificantperformance improvementof9.4%inExactMatch(EM)and
8.5%inF1scorewhenusedtotrainaBERT-basedQAmodel.Additionally,weconductedbiasanalysisand
comparedourdataset’sperformancewithstandardbenchmarks tovalidate itsqualityandrelevance. This
workunderscoresthatrobustpreprocessingisfoundationaltocreatingreliable,domain-adaptedQAdatasets
forextractivemodels
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