Passage Re-ranking Method Based on Sentence Similarity Through Multitask Learning

Youngjin Jang, Hyeon-gu Lee, Jihyun Wang, Chunghee Lee, Harksoo Kim

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2020.47.4.416

The machine reading comprehension(MRC) system is a question answering system in which a computer understands a given passage and respond questions. Recently, with the development of the deep neural network, research on the machine reading system has been actively conducted, and the open domain machine reading system that identifies the correct answer from the results of the information retrieval(IR) model rather than the given passage is in progress. However, if the IR model fails to identify a passage comprising the correct answer, the MRC system cannot respond to the question. That is, the performance of the open domain MRC system depends on the performance of the IR model. Thus, for an open domain MRC system to record high performance, a high performance IR model must be preceded. The previous IR model has been studied through query expansion and reranking. In this paper, we propose a re-ranking method using deep neural networks. The proposed model re-ranks the retrieval results (passages) through multi-task learning-based sentence similarity, and improves the performance by approximately 8% compared to the performance of the existing IR model with experimental results of 58,980 pairs of MRC data.