Title
Incorporating Explicit Knowledge in Pre-trained Language Models for Passage Re-ranking
Abstract
Passage re-ranking is to obtain a permutation over the candidate passage set from retrieval stage. Re-rankers have been boomed by Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) due to their overwhelming advantages in natural language understanding. However, existing PLM based re-rankers may easily suffer from vocabulary mismatch and lack of domain specific knowledge. To alleviate these problems, explicit knowledge contained in knowledge graph is carefully introduced in our work. Specifically, we employ the existing knowledge graph which is incomplete and noisy, and first apply it in passage re-ranking task. To leverage a reliable knowledge, we propose a novel knowledge graph distillation method and obtain a knowledge meta graph as the bridge between query and passage. To align both kinds of embedding in the latent space, we employ PLM as text encoder and graph neural network over knowledge meta graph as knowledge encoder. Besides, a novel knowledge injector is designed for the dynamic interaction between text and knowledge encoder. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method especially in queries requiring in-depth domain knowledge.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3477495.3531997
SIGIR '22: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Learning to Rank, Language models, Semantic Matching
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qian Dong100.34
Yiding Liu273.19
Suqi Cheng352.19
Shuaiqiang Wang425422.72
Zhicong Cheng541.47
Shuzi Niu612411.19
Dawei Yin786661.99