Sentence Retrieval Task

An Sentence Retrieval Task is an information retrieval task that is required to report ranked sentence lists of relevant sentences.

• AKA: Sentence Matching.
• Context:
  • It can range from being an Exact Sentence Matching Task to being a Approximate Sentence Matching Task.
  • It can be supported by a Sentence Ranking Task.
  • It can be solved by a Sentence Retrieval System (that implements a Sentence Retrieval algorithm).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Document Retrieval Task.
• See: Information Retrieval Task.

---

---

References

2014

• http://bommaritollc.com/2014/06/advanced-approximate-sentence-matching-python/
  • Let’s imagine you have a sentence of interest. You’d like to find all occurrences of this sentence within a corpus of text. How would you go about this?

    The most obvious answer is to look for exact matches of the sentence. You’d search through every sentence of your corpus, checking to see if every character of the sentence matched exactly.

    But what if capitalization, punctuation, or white-spacing varied in the slightest? ...

2010

• (Momtazi et al., 2010) ⇒ Saeedeh Momtazi, Sanjeev Khudanpur, and Dietrich Klakow. (2010). “A Comparative Study of Word Co-occurrence for Term Clustering in Language Model-based Sentence Retrieval.” In: Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ISBN:1-932432-65-5
  • QUOTE: Sentence retrieval is a very important part of question answering systems.

---