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most citedBeyond 512 Tokens: Siamese Multi-depth Transformer-based Hierarchical Encoder for Long-Form Document Matching

92 citations · 382 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2021★ 44 cited

Natural Language Understanding with Privacy-Preserving BERT

Chen Qu, Weize Kong, Liu Yang +3

Privacy preservation remains a key challenge in data mining and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Previous research shows that the input text or even text embeddings can leak p…

cs.IR2021★ 2 cited

Weakly-Supervised Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen +3

Recent studies on Question Answering (QA) and Conversational QA (ConvQA) emphasize the role of retrieval: a system first retrieves evidence from a large collection and then extract…

cs.CL2020

Learning to Expand: Reinforced Pseudo-relevance Feedback Selection for Information-seeking Conversations

Haojie Pan, Cen Chen, Chengyu Wang +4

Information-seeking conversation systems are increasingly popular in real-world applications, especially for e-commerce companies. To retrieve appropriate responses for users, it i…

cs.CL2020★ 23 cited

DiPair: Fast and Accurate Distillation for Trillion-Scale Text Matching and Pair Modeling

Jiecao Chen, Liu Yang, Karthik Raman +6

Pre-trained models like BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) have dominated NLP / IR applications such as single sentence classification, text pair classification, and question answering. Ho…

cs.IR2020★ 2 cited

Match: A Matching over Matching Model for Similar Question Identification

Zizhen Wang, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo +6

Community Question Answering (CQA) has become a primary means for people to acquire knowledge, where people are free to ask questions or submit answers. To enhance the efficiency o…

cs.IR2020★ 82 cited

Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen +3

Conversational search is one of the ultimate goals of information retrieval. Recent research approaches conversational search by simplified settings of response ranking and convers…