ConvGQR: Generative Query Reformulation for Conversational Search
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| author | Mo, Fengran Mao, Kelong Zhu, Yutao Wu, Yihong Huang, Kaiyu Nie, Jian-Yun |
| author_facet | Mo, Fengran Mao, Kelong Zhu, Yutao Wu, Yihong Huang, Kaiyu Nie, Jian-Yun |
| contents | In conversational search, the user's real search intent for the current turn is dependent on the previous conversation history. It is challenging to determine a good search query from the whole conversation context. To avoid the expensive re-training of the query encoder, most existing methods try to learn a rewriting model to de-contextualize the current query by mimicking the manual query rewriting. However, manually rewritten queries are not always the best search queries. Training a rewriting model on them would limit the model's ability to produce good search queries. Another useful hint is the potential answer to the question. In this paper, we propose ConvGQR, a new framework to reformulate conversational queries based on generative pre-trained language models (PLMs), one for query rewriting and another for generating potential answers. By combining both, ConvGQR can produce better search queries. In addition, to relate query reformulation to retrieval performance, we propose a knowledge infusion mechanism to optimize both query reformulation and retrieval. Extensive experiments on four conversational search datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of ConvGQR. |
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| spellingShingle | ConvGQR: Generative Query Reformulation for Conversational Search Mo, Fengran Mao, Kelong Zhu, Yutao Wu, Yihong Huang, Kaiyu Nie, Jian-Yun Information Retrieval Computation and Language In conversational search, the user's real search intent for the current turn is dependent on the previous conversation history. It is challenging to determine a good search query from the whole conversation context. To avoid the expensive re-training of the query encoder, most existing methods try to learn a rewriting model to de-contextualize the current query by mimicking the manual query rewriting. However, manually rewritten queries are not always the best search queries. Training a rewriting model on them would limit the model's ability to produce good search queries. Another useful hint is the potential answer to the question. In this paper, we propose ConvGQR, a new framework to reformulate conversational queries based on generative pre-trained language models (PLMs), one for query rewriting and another for generating potential answers. By combining both, ConvGQR can produce better search queries. In addition, to relate query reformulation to retrieval performance, we propose a knowledge infusion mechanism to optimize both query reformulation and retrieval. Extensive experiments on four conversational search datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of ConvGQR. |
| title | ConvGQR: Generative Query Reformulation for Conversational Search |
| topic | Information Retrieval Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15645 |