Yongjin Bae  Hyun Kim  Joon-Ho Lim  Hyun-ki Kim  Kong Joo Lee

10.5626/JOK.2021.48.5.501

passage re-ranking Information Retrieval question answering system Information Extraction

Previous researches related to the QA system have focused on extracting exact answers for the given questions and passages. However, when expanding the problem from machine reading comprehension to open domain question answering, finding the passage containing the correct answer is as important as machine reading comprehension. DrQA reported that Exact Match@Top1 performance decreased from 69.5 to 27.1 when the QA system had the initial search step. In the present work, we have proposed the 2-phase passage reranking model to improve the performance of the question answering system. The proposed model integrates the results of the symbolic and neural ranking models to re-rank them again. The symbolic ranking model was trained based on the CatBoost algorithm and manual features between the question and passage. The neural model was trained based on the KorBERT model by fine-tuning. The second stage model was trained based on the neural regression model. We maximized the performance by combining ranking models with different characters. Finally, the proposed model showed the performance of 85.8% via MRR and 82.2% via BinaryRecall@Top1 measure while evaluating 1,000 questions. Each performance was improved by 17.3%(MRR) and 22.3%(BR@Top1) compared with the baseline model.