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SLEDGE-Z: A Zero-Shot Baseline for COVID-19 Literature 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 scientific literature on the virus. Clinici…
GUIR at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Domain-Tuned Contextualized Models for Offensive Language Detection
Sajad Sotudeh, Tong Xiang, Hao-Ren Yao +4
Offensive language detection is an important and challenging task in natural language processing. We present our submissions to the OffensEval 2020 shared task, which includes thre…
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…
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…
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:…
Interaction Matching for Long-Tail Multi-Label Classification
Sean MacAvaney, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang +2
We present an elegant and effective approach for addressing limitations in existing multi-label classification models by incorporating interaction matching, a concept shown to be u…