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Translation of natural language query into keyword query using a rnn encoder-decoder

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  • Kyungpook National University

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Abstract

The number of natural language queries submi.ed to search engines is increasing as search environments get diversified. However, legacy search engines are still optimized for short keyword queries.Thus, the use of natural language queries at legacy search engines degrades the retrieval performance of the engines. This paper proposes a novel method to translate a natural language query into a keyword query relevant to the natural language query for retrieving beffer search results without change of the engines. .The proposed method formulates the translation as a generation task. .that is, the method generates a keyword query from a natural language query by preserving the semantics of the natural language query. A recurrent neural network encoder-decoder architecture is adopted as a generator of keyword queries from natural language queries. In addition, an a.ention mechanism is also used to cope with long natural language queries.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages965-968
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450350228
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017.08.7
Event40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017 - Tokyo, Shinjuku, Japan
Duration: 2017.08.72017.08.11

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo, Shinjuku
Period17.08.717.08.11

Keywords

  • Neural machine translation
  • Query reformulation
  • RNN encoder-decoder
  • Translation natural language query into keyword query

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