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title = "Towards Effective Long-Form {QA} with Evidence Augmentation",
author = "Yu, Mengxia and
Rosenthal, Sara and
Bornea, Mihaela and
Sil, Avi",
editor = "Gehrmann, Sebastian and
Wang, Alex and
Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and
Clark, Elizabeth and
Dhole, Kaustubh and
Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi and
Santus, Enrico and
Sedghamiz, Hooman",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM)",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.gem-1.13",
pages = "155--164",
abstract = "In this study, we focus on the challenge of improving Long-form Question Answering (LFQA) by extracting and effectively utilizing knowledge from a large set of retrieved passages. We first demonstrate the importance of accurate evidence retrieval for LFQA, showing that optimal extracted knowledge from passages significantly benefits the generation. We also show that the choice of generative models impacts the system{'}s ability to leverage the evidence and produce answers that are grounded in the retrieved passages. We propose a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model as an alternative to the Fusion in Decoder (FiD) used in state-of-the-art LFQA systems and we compare these two models in our experiments.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Towards Effective Long-Form QA with Evidence Augmentation
%A Yu, Mengxia
%A Rosenthal, Sara
%A Bornea, Mihaela
%A Sil, Avi
%Y Gehrmann, Sebastian
%Y Wang, Alex
%Y Sedoc, João
%Y Clark, Elizabeth
%Y Dhole, Kaustubh
%Y Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi
%Y Santus, Enrico
%Y Sedghamiz, Hooman
%S Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM)
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F yu-etal-2023-towards
%X In this study, we focus on the challenge of improving Long-form Question Answering (LFQA) by extracting and effectively utilizing knowledge from a large set of retrieved passages. We first demonstrate the importance of accurate evidence retrieval for LFQA, showing that optimal extracted knowledge from passages significantly benefits the generation. We also show that the choice of generative models impacts the system’s ability to leverage the evidence and produce answers that are grounded in the retrieved passages. We propose a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model as an alternative to the Fusion in Decoder (FiD) used in state-of-the-art LFQA systems and we compare these two models in our experiments.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.gem-1.13
%P 155-164
Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Effective Long-Form QA with Evidence Augmentation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.gem-1.13) (Yu et al., GEM-WS 2023)
ACL
- Mengxia Yu, Sara Rosenthal, Mihaela Bornea, and Avi Sil. 2023. Towards Effective Long-Form QA with Evidence Augmentation. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), pages 155–164, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.