Multi-Hop Paragraph Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

Yair Feldman, Ran El-Yaniv


Abstract
This paper is concerned with the task of multi-hop open-domain Question Answering (QA). This task is particularly challenging since it requires the simultaneous performance of textual reasoning and efficient searching. We present a method for retrieving multiple supporting paragraphs, nested amidst a large knowledge base, which contain the necessary evidence to answer a given question. Our method iteratively retrieves supporting paragraphs by forming a joint vector representation of both a question and a paragraph. The retrieval is performed by considering contextualized sentence-level representations of the paragraphs in the knowledge source. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance over two well-known datasets, SQuAD-Open and HotpotQA, which serve as our single- and multi-hop open-domain QA benchmarks, respectively.
Anthology ID:
P19-1222
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2296–2309
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1222
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1222
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Cite (ACL):
Yair Feldman and Ran El-Yaniv. 2019. Multi-Hop Paragraph Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2296–2309, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Multi-Hop Paragraph Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering (Feldman & El-Yaniv, ACL 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1222.pdf
Code
 yairf11/MUPPET
Data
HotpotQA