Knowledge Transfer from Answer Ranking to Answer Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12865v1
• Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:51:27 GMT
• Title: Knowledge Transfer from Answer Ranking to Answer Generation
• Authors: Matteo Gabburo, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Siddhant Garg, Luca Soldaini, Alessandro Moschitti
• Abstract summary: We propose to train a GenQA model by transferring knowledge from a trained AS2 model. We also propose to use the AS2 model prediction scores for loss weighting and score-conditioned input/output shaping.
• Score: 97.38378660163414
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent studies show that Question Answering (QA) based on Answer Sentence Selection (AS2) can be improved by generating an improved answer from the top-k ranked answer sentences (termed GenQA). This allows for synthesizing the information from multiple candidates into a concise, natural-sounding answer. However, creating large-scale supervised training data for GenQA models is very challenging. In this paper, we propose to train a GenQA model by transferring knowledge from a trained AS2 model, to overcome the aforementioned issue. First, we use an AS2 model to produce a ranking over answer candidates for a set of questions. Then, we use the top ranked candidate as the generation target, and the next k top ranked candidates as context for training a GenQA model. We also propose to use the AS2 model prediction scores for loss weighting and score-conditioned input/output shaping, to aid the knowledge transfer. Our evaluation on three public and one large industrial datasets demonstrates the superiority of our approach over the AS2 baseline, and GenQA trained using supervised data.

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