Typo-Robust Representation Learning for Dense Retrieval

Panuthep Tasawong, Wuttikorn Ponwitayarat, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, Sarana Nutanong

Main: Information Retrieval and Text Mining Main-poster Paper

Poster Session 4: Information Retrieval and Text Mining (Poster)
Conference Room: Frontenac Ballroom and Queen's Quay
Conference Time: July 11, 11:00-12:30 (EDT) (America/Toronto)
Global Time: July 11, Poster Session 4 (15:00-16:30 UTC)
Keywords: passage retrieval, dense retrieval, contrastive learning
TLDR: Dense retrieval is a basic building block of information retrieval applications. One of the main challenges of dense retrieval in real-world settings is the handling of queries containing misspelled words. A popular approach for handling misspelled queries is minimizing the representations discrepan...
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Abstract: Dense retrieval is a basic building block of information retrieval applications. One of the main challenges of dense retrieval in real-world settings is the handling of queries containing misspelled words. A popular approach for handling misspelled queries is minimizing the representations discrepancy between misspelled queries and their pristine ones. Unlike the existing approaches, which only focus on the alignment between misspelled and pristine queries, our method also improves the contrast between each misspelled query and its surrounding queries. To assess the effectiveness of our proposed method, we compare it against the existing competitors using two benchmark datasets and two base encoders. Our method outperforms the competitors in all cases with misspelled queries. Our code and models are available at https://github.com/panuthept/DST-DenseRetrieval.