Cross-genre Document Retrieval: Matching between Conversational and Formal Writings
Tomasz Jurczyk, Jinho D. Choi · 2017
This paper challenges a cross-genre document retrieval task, where the queries are in formal writing and the target documents are in conversational writing.In this task, a query, is a sentence extracted from either a summary or a plot of an episode in a TV show, and the target document consists of transcripts from the corresponding episode.To establish a strong baseline, we employ the current state-of-the-art search engine to perform document retrieval on the dataset collected for this work.We then introduce a structure reranking approach to improve the initial ranking by utilizing syntactic and semantic structures generated by NLP tools.Our evaluation shows an improvement of more than 4% when the structure reranking is applied, which is very promising.Dialogue Summary + Plot Joey One woman?That's like saying there's only one flavor of ice cream for you.Lemme tell you something, Ross.There's lots of flavors out there.Joey compares women to ice cream.(S) Ross You know you probably didn't know this, but back in high school, I had a, um, major crush on you.Ross reveals his high school crush on Rachel.(S) Rachel I knew.Chandler Alright, one of you give me your underpants.Chandler asks Joey for his underwear, but Joey Can't help you, I'm not wearing any.Joey can't help