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Answering Event-Related Questions over Long-term News Article Archives


Answering Event-Related Questions over Long-term News Article Archives



Published: 2020 April

Buchtitel: Proceedings of the 42th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'20)
Verlag: Springer

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Kurzfassung
Long-term news article archives are valuable resources about our past, allowing people to know detailed information of events that occurred at specific time points. To make better use of such heritage collections, this work considers the task of large scale question answering on long-term news article archives. Questions on such archives are often event-related. In addition, they usually exhibit strong temporal aspects and can be roughly categorized into two types: (1) ones containing explicit temporal expressions, and (2) ones only implicitly associated with particular time periods. We focus on the latter type as such questions are more difficult to be answered, and we propose a retriever-reader model with an additional module for reranking articles by exploiting temporal information from different angles. Experimental results on carefully constructed test set show that our model outperforms the existing question answering systems, thanks to an additional module that finds more relevant documents.

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Forschungsgruppe

Web Science


Forschungsgebiet

Information Retrieval, Natürliche Sprachverarbeitung, Digitale Bibliotheken