This is the official source code repository of the paper: Mele et al., Adaptive Utterance Rewriting for Conversational Search, IP&M, 2021.

Authors: Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Ophir Frieder.

Data

• Datasets: CAsT 2019 dataset divided into training and test sets. More details in the Dataset README.md file.
• Baselines: all the baselines used in the evaluation. More details in the Baselines README.md file.
• Rewritten Utterances: utterances rewritten with our approaches. More details in the rewritten_utterances README.md file.

Classification

Python notebooks and code for utterance classification. More details in the Classification README.md file.

Query resolution

The query resolution module uses both supervised and unsupervised methods for rewriting queries. More details in the Query resolution README.md file.

Retrieval

Code used for the retrieval of the results using INDRI. More details in the retrieval README.md file.

Re-ranking

Details about how we used BERT for re-ranking are found in the Reranking README.md file.

Citation Licence

This source code is subject to the following citation license:

By downloading and using the source code stored in this GitHub repository, you agree to cite at the undernoted paper in any kind of material you produce where this code has been used to conduct search or experimentation, whether be it a research paper, dissertation, article, poster, presentation, or documentation. By using this software, you have agreed to the citation licence.

Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto, Ophir Frieder. 2021. Adaptive Utterance Rewriting in Conversational Search. Information Processing & Management.

@article{mele2021adaptive,
	title = {Adaptive Utterance Rewriting for Conversational Search},
	journal = {Information Processing \& Management},
	volume = {58},
	number = {6},
	pages = {102682},
	year = {2021},
	issn = {0306-4573},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102682},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457321001679},
	author = {Ida Mele and Cristina Ioana Muntean and Franco Maria Nardini and Raffaele Perego and Nicola Tonellotto and Ophir Frieder},
}

Contact Us

For any other question/comment, write us an email: {ida.mele@iasi.cnr.it, cristina.muntean@isti.cnr.it}