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06/28/2023
Pre-Training Multi-Modal Dense Retrievers for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering
This paper studies a category of visual question answering tasks, in whi...
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06/04/2023
Large Language Model Augmented Narrative Driven Recommendations
Narrative-driven recommendation (NDR) presents an information access pro...
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05/15/2023
Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval
In this work, we explore a Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) tas...
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04/27/2023
Multivariate Representation Learning for Information Retrieval
Dense retrieval models use bi-encoder network architectures for learning...
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04/26/2023
A Personalized Dense Retrieval Framework for Unified Information Access
Developing a universal model that can efficiently and effectively respon...
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04/26/2023
A Symmetric Dual Encoding Dense Retrieval Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering
Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering (KI-VQA) refers to answeri...
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04/22/2023
LaMP: When Large Language Models Meet Personalization
This paper highlights the importance of personalization in the current s...
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04/18/2023
Generalized Weak Supervision for Neural Information Retrieval
Neural ranking models (NRMs) have demonstrated effective performance in ...
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04/09/2023
Editable User Profiles for Controllable Text Recommendation
Methods for making high-quality recommendations often rely on learning l...
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12/21/2022
Learning List-Level Domain-Invariant Representations for Ranking
Domain adaptation aims to transfer the knowledge acquired by models trai...
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10/28/2022
You can't pick your neighbors, or can you? When and how to rely on retrieval in the kNN-LM
Retrieval-enhanced language models (LMs), which condition their predicti...
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09/28/2022
FiD-Light: Efficient and Effective Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation models offer many benefits over standalon...
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07/07/2022
Multi-Task Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation with Relevance Sampling
This paper studies multi-task training of retrieval-augmented generation...
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06/26/2022
Are We There Yet? A Decision Framework for Replacing Term Based Retrieval with Dense Retrieval Systems
Recently, several dense retrieval (DR) models have demonstrated competit...
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06/09/2022
MIMICS-Duo: Offline Online Evaluation of Search Clarification
Asking clarification questions is an active area of research; however, r...
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05/02/2022
Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning
Although information access systems have long supported people in accomp...
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04/28/2022
Curriculum Learning for Dense Retrieval Distillation
Recent work has shown that more effective dense retrieval models can be ...
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01/21/2022
Conversational Information Seeking
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of...
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11/02/2021
Explaining Documents' Relevance to Search Queries
We present GenEx, a generative model to explain search results to users ...
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10/16/2021
A Dataset for Discourse Structure in Peer Review Discussions
At the foundation of scientific evaluation is the labor-intensive proces...
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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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06/17/2021
Current Challenges and Future Directions in Podcast Information Access
Podcasts are spoken documents across a wide-range of genres and styles, ...
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05/20/2021
Intra-Document Cascading: Learning to Select Passages for Neural Document Ranking
An emerging recipe for achieving state-of-the-art effectiveness in neura...
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05/09/2021
Passage Retrieval for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering
In this work, we address multi-modal information needs that contain text...
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04/19/2021
Improving Transformer-Kernel Ranking Model Using Conformer and Query Term Independence
The Transformer-Kernel (TK) model has demonstrated strong reranking perf...
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03/24/2021
CSFCube – A Test Collection of Computer Science Research Articles for Faceted Query by Example
Query by Example is a well-known information retrieval task in which a d...
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01/18/2021
Tip of the Tongue Known-Item Retrieval: A Case Study in Movie Identification
While current information retrieval systems are effective for known-item...
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01/09/2021
Context-Aware Target Apps Selection and Recommendation for Enhancing Personal Mobile Assistants
Users install many apps on their smartphones, raising issues related to ...
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11/14/2020
Conformer-Kernel with Query Term Independence at TREC 2020 Deep Learning Track
We benchmark Conformer-Kernel models under the strict blind evaluation s...
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07/20/2020
Conformer-Kernel with Query Term Independence for Document Retrieval
The Transformer-Kernel (TK) model has demonstrated strong reranking perf...
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06/17/2020
MIMICS: A Large-Scale Data Collection for Search Clarification
Search clarification has recently attracted much attention due to its ap...
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06/13/2020
Guided Transformer: Leveraging Multiple External Sources for Representation Learning in Conversational Search
Asking clarifying questions in response to ambiguous or faceted queries ...
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05/30/2020
Analyzing and Learning from User Interactions for Search Clarification
Asking clarifying questions in response to search queries has been recog...
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05/11/2020
Local Self-Attention over Long Text for Efficient Document Retrieval
Neural networks, particularly Transformer-based architectures, have achi...
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01/19/2020
Common Conversational Community Prototype: Scholarly Conversational Assistant
This paper discusses the potential for creating academic resources (tool...
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12/18/2019
Macaw: An Extensible Conversational Information Seeking Platform
Conversational information seeking (CIS) has been recognized as a major ...
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09/17/2019
Multi-step Entity-centric Information Retrieval for Multi-Hop Question Answering
Multi-hop question answering (QA) requires an information retrieval (IR)...
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08/19/2019
Recommender Systems Fairness Evaluation via Generalized Cross Entropy
Fairness in recommender systems has been considered with respect to sens...
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07/15/2019
Asking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations
Users often fail to formulate their complex information needs in a singl...
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05/22/2019
ANTIQUE: A Non-Factoid Question Answering Benchmark
Considering the widespread use of mobile and voice search, answer passag...
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05/05/2019
Investigating the Successes and Failures of BERT for Passage Re-Ranking
The bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) model...
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03/16/2019
A Deep Look into Neural Ranking Models for Information Retrieval
Ranking models lie at the heart of research on information retrieval (IR...
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10/02/2018
An Analysis of Approaches Taken in the ACM RecSys Challenge 2018 for Automatic Music Playlist Continuation
The ACM Recommender Systems Challenge 2018 focused on the task of automa...
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07/15/2018
Joint Modeling and Optimization of Search and Recommendation
Despite the somewhat different techniques used in developing search engi...
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06/13/2018
Towards Theoretical Understanding of Weak Supervision for Information Retrieval
Neural network approaches have recently shown to be effective in several...
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05/06/2018
Target Apps Selection: Towards a Unified Search Framework for Mobile Devices
With the recent growth of conversational systems and intelligent assista...
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11/25/2017
Neural Ranking Models with Multiple Document Fields
Deep neural networks have recently shown promise in the ad-hoc retrieval...
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10/09/2017
Current Challenges and Visions in Music Recommender Systems Research
Music recommender systems (MRS) have experienced a boom in recent years,...
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05/09/2017
Relevance-based Word Embedding
Learning a high-dimensional dense representation for vocabulary terms, a...
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04/28/2017