Ensembling Ten Math Information Retrieval Systems: MIRMU and MSM at ARQMath 2021

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F21%3A00122410" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/21:00122410 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2936/paper-06.pdf" target="_blank" >http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2936/paper-06.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ensembling Ten Math Information Retrieval Systems: MIRMU and MSM at ARQMath 2021

Original language description

We report on the systems that the Math Information Retrieval group at Masaryk University (MIRMU) and the team of Faculty of Informatics students (MSM) prepared for task~1 (find answers) of the ARQMath lab at the CLEF conference. We have prototyped ten math-aware information retrieval (MIR) systems for the main question-answering task. We ensembled the results of the ten ``weak'' individual systems into committees and let them vote to provide answers to questions. We evaluated the proposed individual systems and ensembles, considering their diversity, hyperparameters, and representations used, and classified their approaches. We have shown the diversity of all systems and evaluated four voting algorithms to collect and rank the answers. Ensembling techniques consistently outperformed the base systems and showed the power of voting of diverse systems. Our prototypes help to understand the challenging problems of question-answering in the STEM domain and our novel reproducible evaluation framework sets a new direction in MIR research. Finally, we formulate ten commandments for future work in the area.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

ISBN

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ISSN

1613-0073

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

82-106

Publisher name

M. Jeusfeld c/o Redaktion Sun SITE, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen

Place of publication

Bucharest, Romania

Event location

online

Event date

Sep 22, 2021

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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