Strong and Efficient Baselines for Open Domain Conversational Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14708v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:48:14 GMT
• Title: Strong and Efficient Baselines for Open Domain Conversational Question Answering
• Authors: Andrei C. Coman, Gianni Barlacchi, Adri\`a de Gispert
• Abstract summary: We study the State-of-the-Art (SotA) Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR) retriever and Fusion-in-Decoder (FiD) reader pipeline. We propose and evaluate strong yet simple and efficient baselines, by introducing a fast reranking component between the retriever and the reader. Experiments on two ODConvQA tasks, namely TopiOCQA and OR-QuAC, show that our method improves the SotA results, while reducing reader's latency by 60%.
• Score: 2.773656427800412
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Unlike the Open Domain Question Answering (ODQA) setting, the conversational (ODConvQA) domain has received limited attention when it comes to reevaluating baselines for both efficiency and effectiveness. In this paper, we study the State-of-the-Art (SotA) Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR) retriever and Fusion-in-Decoder (FiD) reader pipeline, and show that it significantly underperforms when applied to ODConvQA tasks due to various limitations. We then propose and evaluate strong yet simple and efficient baselines, by introducing a fast reranking component between the retriever and the reader, and by performing targeted finetuning steps. Experiments on two ODConvQA tasks, namely TopiOCQA and OR-QuAC, show that our method improves the SotA results, while reducing reader's latency by 60%. Finally, we provide new and valuable insights into the development of challenging baselines that serve as a reference for future, more intricate approaches, including those that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs).

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