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cs.IR2020

PARADE: Passage Representation Aggregation for Document Reranking

Canjia Li, Andrew Yates, Sean MacAvaney +2

Pretrained transformer models, such as BERT and T5, have shown to be highly effective at ad-hoc passage and document ranking. Due to inherent sequence length limits of these models…

cs.IR2020★ 59 cited

Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations

Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego +3

Deep pretrained transformer networks are effective at various ranking tasks, such as question answering and ad-hoc document ranking. However, their computational expenses deem them…

cs.IR2020★ 9 cited

Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking

Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego +3

In precision-oriented tasks like answer ranking, it is more important to rank many relevant answers highly than to retrieve all relevant answers. It follows that a good ranking str…

cs.IR2020★ 72 cited

Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization

Sean MacAvaney, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego +3

The identification of relevance with little textual context is a primary challenge in passage retrieval. We address this problem with a representation-based ranking approach that:…

cs.IR2020★ 1 cited

SLEDGE: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for COVID-19 Scientific Knowledge Search

Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian

With worldwide concerns surrounding the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there is a rapidly growing body of literature on the virus. Clinicians, resear…

cs.IR2020

Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports

Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian +1

Medical errors are a major public health concern and a leading cause of death worldwide. Many healthcare centers and hospitals use reporting systems where medical practitioners wri…