Query Expansion Using Contextual Clue Sampling with Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07093v1
• Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:18:04 GMT
• Title: Query Expansion Using Contextual Clue Sampling with Language Models
• Authors: Linqing Liu, Minghan Li, Jimmy Lin, Sebastian Riedel, Pontus Stenetorp
• Abstract summary: We propose a combination of an effective filtering strategy and fusion of the retrieved documents based on the generation probability of each context. Our lexical matching based approach achieves a similar top-5/top-20 retrieval accuracy and higher top-100 accuracy compared with the well-established dense retrieval model DPR. For end-to-end QA, the reader model also benefits from our method and achieves the highest Exact-Match score against several competitive baselines.
• Score: 69.51976926838232
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Query expansion is an effective approach for mitigating vocabulary mismatch between queries and documents in information retrieval. One recent line of research uses language models to generate query-related contexts for expansion. Along this line, we argue that expansion terms from these contexts should balance two key aspects: diversity and relevance. The obvious way to increase diversity is to sample multiple contexts from the language model. However, this comes at the cost of relevance, because there is a well-known tendency of models to hallucinate incorrect or irrelevant contexts. To balance these two considerations, we propose a combination of an effective filtering strategy and fusion of the retrieved documents based on the generation probability of each context. Our lexical matching based approach achieves a similar top-5/top-20 retrieval accuracy and higher top-100 accuracy compared with the well-established dense retrieval model DPR, while reducing the index size by more than 96%. For end-to-end QA, the reader model also benefits from our method and achieves the highest Exact-Match score against several competitive baselines.

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