Shaimaa Sedek

OBLIQ-IR: Training a Dense Retriever for Oblique Queries

Oblique retrieval, as exemplified by OBLIQ-Bench, asks a retriever to find documents whose relevance is determined by a latent attribute (an implicit stance, an analogous reasoning technique, an authorial fingerprint, or a vague tip-of-the-tongue recollection) that has little or no surface expression in the document. S...