2023/09/15 by Piotr Rybak, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Rybak, Piotr +1
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Text Readability and Simplification #Topic Modeling
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2309.08469
openalex publication_date 2023/09/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Modern open-domain question answering systems often rely on accurate and efficient retrieval components to find passages containing the facts necessary to answer the question. Recently, neural retrievers have gained popularity over lexical alternatives due to their superior performance. However, most of the work concerns popular languages such as English or Chinese. For others, such as Polish, few models are available. In this work, we present Silver Retriever, a neural retriever for Polish trained on a diverse collection of manually or weakly labeled datasets. Silver Retriever achieves much better results than other Polish models and is competitive with larger multilingual models. Together with the model, we open-source five new passage retrieval datasets.