Daxiang Dong


2021

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RocketQA: An Optimized Training Approach to Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering
Yingqi Qu | Yuchen Ding | Jing Liu | Kai Liu | Ruiyang Ren | Wayne Xin Zhao | Daxiang Dong | Hua Wu | Haifeng Wang
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

In open-domain question answering, dense passage retrieval has become a new paradigm to retrieve relevant passages for finding answers. Typically, the dual-encoder architecture is adopted to learn dense representations of questions and passages for semantic matching. However, it is difficult to effectively train a dual-encoder due to the challenges including the discrepancy between training and inference, the existence of unlabeled positives and limited training data. To address these challenges, we propose an optimized training approach, called RocketQA, to improving dense passage retrieval. We make three major technical contributions in RocketQA, namely cross-batch negatives, denoised hard negatives and data augmentation. The experiment results show that RocketQA significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art models on both MSMARCO and Natural Questions. We also conduct extensive experiments to examine the effectiveness of the three strategies in RocketQA. Besides, we demonstrate that the performance of end-to-end QA can be improved based on our RocketQA retriever.

2018

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Multi-Turn Response Selection for Chatbots with Deep Attention Matching Network
Xiangyang Zhou | Lu Li | Daxiang Dong | Yi Liu | Ying Chen | Wayne Xin Zhao | Dianhai Yu | Hua Wu
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Human generates responses relying on semantic and functional dependencies, including coreference relation, among dialogue elements and their context. In this paper, we investigate matching a response with its multi-turn context using dependency information based entirely on attention. Our solution is inspired by the recently proposed Transformer in machine translation (Vaswani et al., 2017) and we extend the attention mechanism in two ways. First, we construct representations of text segments at different granularities solely with stacked self-attention. Second, we try to extract the truly matched segment pairs with attention across the context and response. We jointly introduce those two kinds of attention in one uniform neural network. Experiments on two large-scale multi-turn response selection tasks show that our proposed model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art models.

2016

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Multi-view Response Selection for Human-Computer Conversation
Xiangyang Zhou | Daxiang Dong | Hua Wu | Shiqi Zhao | Dianhai Yu | Hao Tian | Xuan Liu | Rui Yan
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2015

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Multi-Task Learning for Multiple Language Translation
Daxiang Dong | Hua Wu | Wei He | Dianhai Yu | Haifeng Wang
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2014

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Improve Statistical Machine Translation with Context-Sensitive Bilingual Semantic Embedding Model
Haiyang Wu | Daxiang Dong | Xiaoguang Hu | Dianhai Yu | Wei He | Hua Wu | Haifeng Wang | Ting Liu
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

2013

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Compound Embedding Features for Semi-supervised Learning
Mo Yu | Tiejun Zhao | Daxiang Dong | Hao Tian | Dianhai Yu
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies