README.md

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license: mit
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# Task-Aware Specialization for Efficient and Robust Dense Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

This repository includes the model for 
[Task-Aware Specialization for Efficient and Robust Dense Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.159/).

If you find this useful, please cite the following paper:
```
@inproceedings{cheng-etal-2023-task,
    title = "Task-Aware Specialization for Efficient and Robust Dense Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering",
    author = "Cheng, Hao  and
      Fang, Hao  and
      Liu, Xiaodong  and
      Gao, Jianfeng",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.159",
    pages = "1864--1875",
}
```