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09/09/2023
Data Augmentation for Conversational AI
Advancements in conversational systems have revolutionized information a...
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06/23/2023
Stress Testing BERT Anaphora Resolution Models for Reaction Extraction in Chemical Patents
The high volume of published chemical patents and the importance of a ti...
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05/22/2023
MultiTabQA: Generating Tabular Answers for Multi-Table Question Answering
Recent advances in tabular question answering (QA) with large language m...
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05/03/2023
Generating Synthetic Documents for Cross-Encoder Re-Rankers: A Comparative Study of ChatGPT and Human Experts
We investigate the usefulness of generative Large Language Models (LLMs)...
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04/13/2023
Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance Judgment
When asked, current large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT claim that...
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02/14/2023
Market-Aware Models for Efficient Cross-Market Recommendation
We consider the cross-market recommendation (CMR) task, which involves r...
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01/13/2023
Natural Language Processing of Aviation Occurrence Reports for Safety Management
Occurrence reporting is a commonly used method in safety management syst...
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10/12/2022
Focusing on Context is NICE: Improving Overshadowed Entity Disambiguation
Entity disambiguation (ED) is the task of mapping an ambiguous entity me...
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09/26/2022
On the Impact of Speech Recognition Errors in Passage Retrieval for Spoken Question Answering
Interacting with a speech interface to query a Question Answering (QA) s...
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05/04/2022
Analysing the Robustness of Dual Encoders for Dense Retrieval Against Misspellings
Dense retrieval is becoming one of the standard approaches for document ...
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04/22/2022
Zero-shot Query Contextualization for Conversational Search
Current conversational passage retrieval systems cast conversational sea...
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04/07/2022
Parameter-Efficient Abstractive Question Answering over Tables or Text
A long-term ambition of information seeking QA systems is to reason over...
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01/21/2022
Towards Building Economic Models of Conversational Search
Various conceptual and descriptive models of conversational search have ...
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12/14/2021
Scaling Up Query-Focused Summarization to Meet Open-Domain Question Answering
Query-focused summarization (QFS) requires generating a textual summary ...
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10/11/2021
Controllable Recommenders using Deep Generative Models and Disentanglement
In this paper, we consider controllability as a means to satisfy dynamic...
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09/23/2021
Paint4Poem: A Dataset for Artistic Visualization of Classical Chinese Poems
In this work we propose a new task: artistic visualization of classical ...
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09/13/2021
Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search
Information seeking conversations between users and Conversational Searc...
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09/13/2021
Cross-Market Product Recommendation
We study the problem of recommending relevant products to users in relat...
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08/24/2021
Robustness Evaluation of Entity Disambiguation Using Prior Probes:the Case of Entity Overshadowing
Entity disambiguation (ED) is the last step of entity linking (EL), when...
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08/23/2021
Legal Search in Case Law and Statute Law
In this work we describe a method to identify document pairwise relevanc...
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08/23/2021
VerbCL: A Dataset of Verbatim Quotes for Highlight Extraction in Case Law
Citing legal opinions is a key part of legal argumentation, an expert ta...
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06/29/2021
Few-Shot Electronic Health Record Coding through Graph Contrastive Learning
Electronic health record (EHR) coding is the task of assigning ICD codes...
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06/15/2021
Analysing Dense Passage Retrieval for Multi-hop Question Answering
We analyse the performance of passage retrieval models in the presence o...
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04/14/2021
A Large-Scale Analysis of Mixed Initiative in Information-Seeking Dialogues for Conversational Search
Conversational search is a relatively young area of research that aims a...
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03/15/2021
Category Aware Explainable Conversational Recommendation
Most conversational recommendation approaches are either not explainable...
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03/10/2021
Ranking Clarifying Questions Based on Predicted User Engagement
To improve online search results, clarification questions can be used to...
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10/20/2020
A Benchmark for Lease Contract Review
Extracting entities and other useful information from legal contracts is...
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08/09/2020
Analysing the Effect of Clarifying Questions on Document Ranking in Conversational Search
Recent research on conversational search highlights the importance of mi...
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08/01/2020
An Empirical Study of Clarifying Question-Based Systems
Search and recommender systems that take the initiative to ask clarifyin...
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05/25/2020
An Analysis of Mixed Initiative and Collaboration in Information-Seeking Dialogues
The ability to engage in mixed-initiative interaction is one of the core...
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05/25/2020
Knowledge Graph Simple Question Answering for Unseen Domains
Knowledge graph simple question answering (KGSQA), in its standard form,...
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05/24/2020
Query Resolution for Conversational Search with Limited Supervision
In this work we focus on multi-turn passage retrieval as a crucial compo...
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04/29/2020
Conversations with Search Engines
In this paper, we address the problem of answering complex information n...
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08/30/2019
Learning to Ask: Question-based Sequential Bayesian Product Search
Product search is generally recognized as the first and foremost stage o...
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07/05/2019
Global Aggregations of Local Explanations for Black Box models
The decision-making process of many state-of-the-art machine learning mo...
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06/18/2019
Query Generation for Patent Retrieval with Keyword Extraction based on Syntactic Features
This paper describes a new method to extract relevant keywords from pate...
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12/02/2018
Improved and Robust Controversy Detection in General Web Pages Using Semantic Approaches under Large Scale Conditions
Detecting controversy in general web pages is a daunting task, but incre...
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10/12/2018
Technology Assisted Reviews: Finding the Last Few Relevant Documents by Asking Yes/No Questions to Reviewers
The goal of a technology-assisted review is to achieve high recall with ...
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01/31/2018
ILPS at TREC 2017 Common Core Track
The TREC 2017 Common Core Track aimed at gathering a diverse set of part...
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12/04/2017
Examining Cooperation in Visual Dialog Models
In this work we propose a blackbox intervention method for visual dialog...
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09/06/2017
Active Sampling for Large-scale Information Retrieval Evaluation
Evaluation is crucial in Information Retrieval. The development of model...
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08/09/2017
Neural Vector Spaces for Unsupervised Information Retrieval
We propose the Neural Vector Space Model (NVSM), a method that learns re...
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07/25/2017
Structural Regularities in Text-based Entity Vector Spaces
Entity retrieval is the task of finding entities such as people or produ...
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06/12/2017
Semantic Entity Retrieval Toolkit
Unsupervised learning of low-dimensional, semantic representations of wo...
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01/03/2017
Pyndri: a Python Interface to the Indri Search Engine
We introduce pyndri, a Python interface to the Indri search engine. Pynd...
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08/25/2016
Learning Latent Vector Spaces for Product Search
We introduce a novel latent vector space model that jointly learns the l...
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08/23/2016