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Discriminative Information Retrieval for Knowledge Discovery

Information Retrieval 2016-10-07 v1

Abstract

We propose a framework for discriminative Information Retrieval (IR) atop linguistic features, trained to improve the recall of tasks such as answer candidate passage retrieval, the initial step in text-based Question Answering (QA). We formalize this as an instance of linear feature-based IR (Metzler and Croft, 2007), illustrating how a variety of knowledge discovery tasks are captured under this approach, leading to a 44% improvement in recall for candidate triage for QA.

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@article{arxiv.1610.01901,
  title  = {Discriminative Information Retrieval for Knowledge Discovery},
  author = {Tongfei Chen and Benjamin Van Durme},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01901},
  year   = {2016}
}
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