How Can Context Help? Exploring Joint Retrieval of Passage and Personalized Context

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13760v1
• Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 04:49:46 GMT
• Title: How Can Context Help? Exploring Joint Retrieval of Passage and Personalized Context
• Authors: Hui Wan, Hongkang Li, Songtao Lu, Xiaodong Cui, Marina Danilevsky
• Abstract summary: Motivated by the concept of personalized context-aware document-grounded conversational systems, we introduce the task of context-aware passage retrieval. We propose a novel approach, Personalized Context-Aware Search (PCAS), that effectively harnesses contextual information during passage retrieval.
• Score: 39.334509280777425
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The integration of external personalized context information into document-grounded conversational systems has significant potential business value, but has not been well-studied. Motivated by the concept of personalized context-aware document-grounded conversational systems, we introduce the task of context-aware passage retrieval. We also construct a dataset specifically curated for this purpose. We describe multiple baseline systems to address this task, and propose a novel approach, Personalized Context-Aware Search (PCAS), that effectively harnesses contextual information during passage retrieval. Experimental evaluations conducted on multiple popular dense retrieval systems demonstrate that our proposed approach not only outperforms the baselines in retrieving the most relevant passage but also excels at identifying the pertinent context among all the available contexts. We envision that our contributions will serve as a catalyst for inspiring future research endeavors in this promising direction.

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