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Embedding-based Zero-shot Retrieval through Query Generation
Davis Liang, Peng Xu, Siamak Shakeri +4
Passage retrieval addresses the problem of locating relevant passages, usually from a large corpus, given a query. In practice, lexical term-matching algorithms like BM25 are popul…
TableQnA: Answering List Intent Queries With Web Tables
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Zhimin Chen, Siamak Shakeri +2
The web contains a vast corpus of HTML tables. They can be used to provide direct answers to many web queries. We focus on answering two classes of queries with those tables: those…
Open Domain Question Answering Using Web Tables
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Zhimin Chen, Siamak Shakeri +1
Tables extracted from web documents can be used to directly answer many web search queries. Previous works on question answering (QA) using web tables have focused on factoid queri…
Knowledge Distillation in Document Retrieval
Siamak Shakeri, Abhinav Sethy, Cheng Cheng
Complex deep learning models now achieve state of the art performance for many document retrieval tasks. The best models process the query or claim jointly with the document. Howev…
Direct optimization of F-measure for retrieval-based personal question answering
Rasool Fakoor, Amanjit Kainth, Siamak Shakeri +3
Recent advances in spoken language technologies and the introduction of many customer facing products, have given rise to a wide customer reliance on smart personal assistants for…