Zero-shot Query Contextualization for Conversational Search
Antonios Minas Krasakis,
Andrew Yates,
Evangelos Kanoulas
Abstract:Current conversational passage retrieval systems cast conversational search into ad-hoc search by using an intermediate query resolution step that places the user's question in context of the conversation. While the proposed methods have proven effective, they still assume the availability of large-scale question resolution and conversational search datasets. To waive the dependency on the availability of such data, we adapt a pre-trained token-level dense retriever on ad-hoc search data to perform conversatio… Show more
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