25/07/2020

Contextual re-ranking with behavior aware transformers

Chen Qu, Chenyan Xiong, Yizhe Zhang, Corby Rosset, W. Bruce Croft, Paul Bennett

Keywords: behavior aware transformers, neural-IR, conversational search

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Abstract: In this work, we focus on the contextual document ranking task, which deals with the challenge of user interaction modeling for conversational search. Given a history of user feedback behaviors, such as issuing a query, clicking a document, and skipping a document, we propose to introduce behavior awareness to a neural ranker, resulting in a Hierarchical Behavior Aware Transformers (HBA-Transformers) model. The hierarchy is composed of an intra-behavior attention layer and an inter-behavior attention layer to let the system effectively distinguish and model different user behaviors. Our extensive experiments on the AOL session dataset demonstrate that the hierarchical behavior aware architecture is more powerful than a simple combination of history behaviors. Besides, we analyze the conversational property of queries. We show that coherent sessions tend to be more conversational and thus are more demanding in terms of considering history user behaviors.

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