Participation of group Rachael for SCAI 2021.
Fine-tuned Pegasus model can be found in Hugging Face: gonced8/pegasus-conversational-qa
Gonçalo Raposo
@InProceedings{Raposo2022,
author = {Raposo, Gon{\c{c}}alo and Ribeiro, Rui and Martins, Bruno and Coheur, Lu{\'i}sa},
booktitle = {Advances in Information Retrieval},
title = {Question Rewriting? Assessing Its Importance for Conversational Question Answering},
year = {2022},
address = {Cham},
editor = {Hagen, Matthias and Verberne, Suzan and Macdonald, Craig and Seifert, Christin and Balog, Krisztian and N{\o}rv{\aa}g, Kjetil and Setty, Vinay},
month = apr,
pages = {199--206},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
abstract = {In conversational question answering, systems must correctly interpret the interconnected interactions and generate knowledgeable answers, which may require the retrieval of relevant information from a background repository. Recent approaches to this problem leverage neural language models, although different alternatives can be considered in terms of modules for (a) representing user questions in context, (b) retrieving the relevant background information, and (c) generating the answer. This work presents a conversational question answering system designed specifically for the Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI) shared task, and reports on a detailed analysis of its question rewriting module. In particular, we considered different variations of the question rewriting module to evaluate the influence on the subsequent components, and performed a careful analysis of the results obtained with the best system configuration. Our system achieved the best performance in the shared task and our analysis emphasizes the importance of the conversation context representation for the overall system performance.},
keywords = {conversational question answering, conversational search, question rewriting, transformer-based neural language models},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_23},
eprint = {2201.09146},
eprintclass = {cs.CL},
eprinttype = {arXiv},
isbn = {978-3-030-99739-7},
}