Diverse Multi-Answer Retrieval with Determinantal Point Processes

Poojitha Nandigam, Nikhil Rayaprolu, Manish Shrivastava


Abstract
Often questions provided to open-domain question answering systems are ambiguous. Traditional QA systems that provide a single answer are incapable of answering ambiguous questions since the question may be interpreted in several ways and may have multiple distinct answers. In this paper, we address multi-answer retrieval which entails retrieving passages that can capture majority of the diverse answers to the question. We propose a re-ranking based approach using Determinantal point processes utilizing BERT as kernels. Our method jointly considers query-passage relevance and passage-passage correlation to retrieve passages that are both query-relevant and diverse. Results demonstrate that our re-ranking technique outperforms state-of-the-art method on the AmbigQA dataset.
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2022.coling-1.194
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Month:
October
Year:
2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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2220–2225
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.194
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Poojitha Nandigam, Nikhil Rayaprolu, and Manish Shrivastava. 2022. Diverse Multi-Answer Retrieval with Determinantal Point Processes. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 2220–2225, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Data
Natural Questions