SSP: Self-Supervised Post-training for Conversational Search

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00569v1
• Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 13:36:36 GMT
• Title: SSP: Self-Supervised Post-training for Conversational Search
• Authors: Quan Tu, Shen Gao, Xiaolong Wu, Zhao Cao, Ji-Rong Wen and Rui Yan
• Abstract summary: We propose fullmodel (model) which is a new post-training paradigm with three self-supervised tasks to efficiently initialize the conversational search model. To verify the effectiveness of our proposed method, we apply the conversational encoder post-trained by model on the conversational search task using two benchmark datasets: CAsT-19 and CAsT-20.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Conversational search has been regarded as the next-generation search paradigm. Constrained by data scarcity, most existing methods distill the well-trained ad-hoc retriever to the conversational retriever. However, these methods, which usually initialize parameters by query reformulation to discover contextualized dependency, have trouble in understanding the dialogue structure information and struggle with contextual semantic vanishing. In this paper, we propose \fullmodel (\model) which is a new post-training paradigm with three self-supervised tasks to efficiently initialize the conversational search model to enhance the dialogue structure and contextual semantic understanding. Furthermore, the \model can be plugged into most of the existing conversational models to boost their performance. To verify the effectiveness of our proposed method, we apply the conversational encoder post-trained by \model on the conversational search task using two benchmark datasets: CAsT-19 and CAsT-20. Extensive experiments that our \model can boost the performance of several existing conversational search methods. Our source code is available at \url{https://github.com/morecry/SSP}.

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