@inproceedings{fang-etal-2024-reano,
title = "{REANO}: Optimising Retrieval-Augmented Reader Models through Knowledge Graph Generation",
author = "Fang, Jinyuan and
Meng, Zaiqiao and
Macdonald, Craig",
editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
Martins, Andre and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.luhme-long.115/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.115",
pages = "2094--2112",
abstract = "Open domain question answering (ODQA) aims to answer questions with knowledge from an external corpus. Fusion-in-Decoder (FiD) is an effective retrieval-augmented reader model to address this task. Given that FiD independently encodes passages, which overlooks the semantic relationships between passages, some studies use knowledge graphs (KGs) to establish dependencies among passages. However, they only leverage knowledge triples from existing KGs, which suffer from incompleteness and may lack certain information critical for answering given questions. To this end, in order to capture the dependencies between passages while tacking the issue of incompleteness in existing KGs, we propose to enhance the retrieval-augmented reader model with a knowledge graph generation module (REANO). Specifically, REANO consists of a KG generator and an answer predictor. The KG generator aims to generate KGs from the passages and the answer predictor then generates answers based on the passages and the generated KGs. Experimental results on five ODQA datasets indicate that compared with baselines, REANO can improve the exact match score by up to 2.7{\%} on the EntityQuestion dataset, with an average improvement of 1.8{\%} across all the datasets."
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%T REANO: Optimising Retrieval-Augmented Reader Models through Knowledge Graph Generation
%A Fang, Jinyuan
%A Meng, Zaiqiao
%A Macdonald, Craig
%Y Ku, Lun-Wei
%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
%S Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand
%F fang-etal-2024-reano
%X Open domain question answering (ODQA) aims to answer questions with knowledge from an external corpus. Fusion-in-Decoder (FiD) is an effective retrieval-augmented reader model to address this task. Given that FiD independently encodes passages, which overlooks the semantic relationships between passages, some studies use knowledge graphs (KGs) to establish dependencies among passages. However, they only leverage knowledge triples from existing KGs, which suffer from incompleteness and may lack certain information critical for answering given questions. To this end, in order to capture the dependencies between passages while tacking the issue of incompleteness in existing KGs, we propose to enhance the retrieval-augmented reader model with a knowledge graph generation module (REANO). Specifically, REANO consists of a KG generator and an answer predictor. The KG generator aims to generate KGs from the passages and the answer predictor then generates answers based on the passages and the generated KGs. Experimental results on five ODQA datasets indicate that compared with baselines, REANO can improve the exact match score by up to 2.7% on the EntityQuestion dataset, with an average improvement of 1.8% across all the datasets.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.115
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.luhme-long.115/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.115
%P 2094-2112
Markdown (Informal)
[REANO: Optimising Retrieval-Augmented Reader Models through Knowledge Graph Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2024.luhme-long.115/) (Fang et al., ACL 2024)
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