Neural approaches to conversational information retrieval / Jianfeng Gao, Chenyan Xiong, Paul Bennett, Nick Craswell.
Gao, Jianfeng, author.; Xiong, Chenyan, author.; Bennett, Paul, author.; Craswell, Nick, author.
2023
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Title Neural approaches to conversational information retrieval / Jianfeng Gao, Chenyan Xiong, Paul Bennett, Nick Craswell.
Author Gao, Jianfeng, author.
ISBN 9783031230806 (electronic bk.)
3031230809 (electronic bk.)
3031230795
9783031230790
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23080-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-23080-6 doi
Call Number P98
Dewey Decimal Classification 006.3/5
Summary This book surveys recent advances in Conversational Information Retrieval (CIR), focusing on neural approaches that have been developed in the last few years. Progress in deep learning has brought tremendous improvements in natural language processing (NLP) and conversational AI, leading to a plethora of commercial conversational services that allow naturally spoken and typed interaction, increasing the need for more human-centric interactions in IR. The book contains nine chapters. Chapter 1 motivates the research of CIR by reviewing the studies on how people search and subsequently defines a CIR system and a reference architecture which is described in detail in the rest of the book. Chapter 2 provides a detailed discussion of techniques for evaluating a CIR system a goal-oriented conversational AI system with a human in the loop. Then Chapters 3 to 7 describe the algorithms and methods for developing the main CIR modules (or sub-systems). In Chapter 3, conversational document search is discussed, which can be viewed as a sub-system of the CIR system. Chapter 4 is about algorithms and methods for query-focused multi-document summarization. Chapter 5 describes various neural models for conversational machine comprehension, which generate a direct answer to a user query based on retrieved query-relevant documents, while Chapter 6 details neural approaches to conversational question answering over knowledge bases, which is fundamental to the knowledge base search module of a CIR system. Chapter 7 elaborates various techniques and models that aim to equip a CIR system with the capability of proactively leading a human-machine conversation. Chapter 8 reviews a variety of commercial systems for CIR and related tasks. It first presents an overview of research platforms and toolkits which enable scientists and practitioners to build conversational experiences, and continues with historical highlights and recent trends in a range of application areas. Chapter 9 eventually concludes the book with a brief discussion of research trends and areas for future work. The primary target audience of the book are the IR and NLP research communities. However, audiences with another background, such as machine learning or human-computer interaction, will also find it an accessible introduction to CIR.
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Added Author Xiong, Chenyan, author.
Bennett, Paul, author.
Craswell, Nick, author.
Series Information retrieval series ; 44.
Available in Other Form NEURAL APPROACHES TO CONVERSATIONAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL.
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Intro
Preface
Book Organization
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Related Surveys
1.2 How People Search
1.2.1 Information-Seeking Tasks
1.2.2 Information-Seeking Models
1.3 CIR as Task-Oriented Dialog
1.4 CIR System Architecture
1.4.1 CIR Engine Layer
1.4.2 User Experience Layer
1.4.3 Data Layer
1.4.4 An Example: Macaw
1.5 Remarks on Building an Intelligent CIR System
1.6 Early Works on CIR
1.6.1 System-Oriented and User-Oriented IR Research
1.6.2 System Architecture
1.6.3 Search Result Presentation

1.6.4 Relevance Feedback Interactions
1.6.5 Exploratory Search
2 Evaluating Conversational Information Retrieval
2.1 Forms of Evaluation
2.2 System-Oriented Evaluation
2.2.1 Evaluating Retrieval
2.2.2 Evaluating Retrieval in Conversational Context
2.2.3 Evaluating Non-retrieval Components
2.3 User-Oriented Evaluation
2.3.1 Lab Studies
2.3.2 Scaling Up Evaluation
2.4 Emerging Forms of Evaluation
2.4.1 CIR User Simulation
2.4.2 Responsible CIR
3 Conversational Search
3.1 Task
3.2 Benchmarks
3.2.1 TREC CAsT
3.2.2 OR-QuAC

3.2.3 Other Related Resources
3.3 Pre-trained Language Models
3.3.1 BERT: A Bidirectional Transformer PLM
3.3.2 The Pre-training and Fine-Tuning Framework
3.4 System Architecture
3.4.1 Contextual Query Understanding
3.4.2 Document Retrieval
3.4.3 Document Ranking
3.5 Contextual Query Understanding
3.5.1 Heuristic Query Expansion Methods
3.5.2 Machine Learning-Based Query Expansion Methods
3.5.3 Neural Query Rewriting
3.5.4 Training Data Generation via Rules and Self-supervised Learning
3.6 Sparse Document Retrieval
3.7 Dense Document Retrieval

3.7.1 The Dual-Encoder Architecture
3.7.2 Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
3.7.3 Model Training
3.8 Conversational Dense Document Retrieval
3.8.1 Few-Shot ConvDR
3.9 Document Ranking
4 Query-Focused Multi-document Summarization
4.1 Task and Datasets
4.2 An Overview of Text Summarization Methods
4.2.1 Extractive Summarizers
Sentence Representation
Sentence Scoring
Summary Sentence Selection
4.2.2 Abstractive Summarizers
FFLMs
RNNs
Transformers
4.3 QMDS Methods
4.3.1 Extractive Methods
Sentence Representation
Sentence Scoring

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