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افتح سؤال نطاق الرد على الجداول عبر استرجاع كثيف
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تقدم التطورات الحديثة في QA في الهواء الطلق إلى نماذج قوية تعتمد على استرجاع كثيف، ولكن ركزت فقط على استرداد المقاطع النصية.في هذا العمل، نتعامل مع QA المجال المفتوح على الجداول لأول مرة، وإظهار أنه يمكن تحسين الاسترجاع من خلال المسترد المصمم للتعامل مع سياق الجدول.نقدم إجراءات فعالة مسبقة التدريب لاستردادنا وتحسين جودة الاسترجاع مع السلبيات الصلبة الملغومة.نظرا لأن مجموعات البيانات ذات الصلة مفقودة، فإننا نستخلص مجموعة فرعية من الأسئلة الطبيعية (Kwiatkowski et al.، 2019) في مجموعة بيانات QA.نجد أن المسترد الخاص بنا يحسن نتائج الاسترجاع من 72.0 إلى 81.1 استدعاء @ 10 وتنفذ QA نهاية إلى نهاية من 33.8 إلى 37.7 مباراة دقيقة، عبر المسترد القائم على بيرت.
Recent advances in open-domain QA have led to strong models based on dense retrieval, but only focused on retrieving textual passages. In this work, we tackle open-domain QA over tables for the first time, and show that retrieval can be improved by a retriever designed to handle tabular context. We present an effective pre-training procedure for our retriever and improve retrieval quality with mined hard negatives. As relevant datasets are missing, we extract a subset of Natural Questions (Kwiatkowski et al., 2019) into a Table QA dataset. We find that our retriever improves retrieval results from 72.0 to 81.1 recall@10 and end-to-end QA results from 33.8 to 37.7 exact match, over a BERT based retriever.
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