Semanlink - NLP tasks / problems ; Information retrieval AND Unsupervised machine learning

1. synthetic queries
are generated for each passage from the target corpus (using an existing pre-trained [T5](tag:text_to_text_transfer_transformer)
encoder-decoder)
2. the generated queries are used for mining negative
passages (retrieving the most similar
paragraphs using an existing dense retrieval
model == hard negatives!)
3. the query-passage pairs are labeled by a cross-encoder and used to train the domain-adapted
dense retriever (using method described in [Hofstätter et al.,
2020](doc:2021/12/2010_02666_improving_efficien))

[Nils Reimers sur Twitter](doc:2021/12/nils_reimers_sur_twitter_do_), [GitHub](https://github.com/UKPLab/gpl),  by the author of [TSDAE](doc:2021/09/2104_06979_tsdae_using_trans)

Claims to improve "Doc2Query" [Document Expansion by Query Prediction](doc:2022/01/1904_08375_document_expansion): ([src](https://twitter.com/KexinWang2049/status/1471435779415150598))

> - GPL: Uses doc2query to construct synthetic data and does knowledge distillation (i.e. training) on that data.
> - Doc2query: Generates queries to extend the documents and use BM25 on top of them w/o training.

2021-12-15 About

Nils Reimers sur Twitter : "Do dense retrieval models work out-of-the-box for your specific domain? Often the answer was No😢..."

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2021-12-15 About

[2112.01488] ColBERTv2: Effective and Efficient Retrieval via Lightweight Late Interaction

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2021-12-05 About

Unsupervised Training for Sentence Transformers | Pinecone

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2021-11-24 About

Multilingual Sentence Transformers | Pinecone

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2021-11-04 About

[2012.04584] Distilling Knowledge from Reader to Retriever for Question Answering

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> a method to train an information retrieval module for downstream tasks, **without using pairs of queries and documents as annotations**.

Uses two models (standard pipeline for open-domain QA):

- the first one retrieves documents from a large source of knowledge (the retriever)
- the second one processes the support documents to solve the task (the reader).

> First the retriever selects support passages in a large knowledge
source. Then these passages are processed by the reader, along with the question, to generate an
answer

Inspired by knowledge distillation: the reader model is the teacher and the retriever is the student.

> More precisely, we use a sequence-to-sequence model as the reader, and use
the attention activations over the input documents as synthetic labels to train the retriever. 
> (**train the retriever by learning to approximate the attention score of the reader**)

Refers to:

- [REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training](doc:2020/12/2002_08909_realm_retrieval_a)
- [Dehghani: Neural Ranking Models with Weak Supervision](doc:?uri=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1704.08803)

2020-12-11 About

[1911.03814] Scalable Zero-shot Entity Linking with Dense Entity Retrieval

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2020-05-02 About

Elasticsearch meets BERT: Building Search Engine with Elasticsearch and BERT

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2020-01-10 About

[1902.10909] BERT for Joint Intent Classification and Slot Filling

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2020-01-09 About

[1908.10084] Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks

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2019-08-28 About

Result Clustering - Apache Solr Reference Guide - Apache Software Foundation

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2017-05-23 About