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Detecting RAG Advertisements Across Advertising Styles
Sebastian Heineking, Wilhelm Pertsch, Ines Zelch +4
Large language models (LLMs) enable a new form of advertising for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in which organic responses are blended with contextually relevant ads…
The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation
Lukas Gienapp, Tim Hagen, Maik Fröbe +4
How good are humans at writing and judging responses in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) scenarios? To answer this question, we investigate the efficacy of crowdsourcing for RA…
Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-Ranking
Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells +6
Cross-encoders distilled from large language models (LLMs) are often more effective re-rankers than cross-encoders fine-tuned on manually labeled data. However, distilled models do…
Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-Passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-Ranking with Cross-Encoders
Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells +6
Existing cross-encoder models can be categorized as pointwise, pairwise, or listwise. Pairwise and listwise models allow passage interactions, which typically makes them more effec…
Detecting Generated Native Ads in Conversational Search
Sebastian Schmidt, Ines Zelch, Janek Bevendorff +3
Conversational search engines such as YouChat and Microsoft Copilot use large language models (LLMs) to generate responses to queries. It is only a small step to also let the same…
Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
Lukas Gienapp, Harrisen Scells, Niklas Deckers +9
Recent advances in large language models have enabled the development of viable generative retrieval systems. Instead of a traditional document ranking, generative retrieval system…
The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform
Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney +6
We integrate ir_datasets, ir_measures, and PyTerrier with TIRA in the Information Retrieval Experiment Platform (TIREx) to promote more standardized, reproducible, scalable, and ev…
Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance Judgment
Guglielmo Faggioli, Laura Dietz, Charles Clarke +8
When asked, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT claim that they can assist with relevance judgments but it is not clear whether automated judgments can reliably be used in ev…
The Archive Query Log: Mining Millions of Search Result Pages of Hundreds of Search Engines from 25 Years of Web Archives
Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sebastian Schmidt, Maik Fröbe +5
The Archive Query Log (AQL) is a previously unused, comprehensive query log collected at the Internet Archive over the last 25 years. Its first version includes 356 million queries…
The Infinite Index: Information Retrieval on Generative Text-To-Image Models
Niklas Deckers, Maik Fröbe, Johannes Kiesel +4
Conditional generative models such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion generate images based on a user-defined text, the prompt. Finding and refining prompts that produce a desired imag…
FastWARC: Optimizing Large-Scale Web Archive Analytics
Janek Bevendorff, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein
Web search and other large-scale web data analytics rely on processing archives of web pages stored in a standardized and efficient format. Since its introduction in 2008, the IIPC…
The Impact of Main Content Extraction on Near-Duplicate Detection
Maik Fröbe, Matthias Hagen, Janek Bevendorff +6
Commercial web search engines employ near-duplicate detection to ensure that users see each relevant result only once, albeit the underlying web crawls typically include (near-)dup…
Towards Axiomatic Explanations for Neural Ranking Models
Michael Völske, Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Fröbe +4
Recently, neural networks have been successfully employed to improve upon state-of-the-art performance in ad-hoc retrieval tasks via machine-learned ranking functions. While neural…
Conversational Search -- A Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 19461
Avishek Anand, Lawrence Cavedon, Matthias Hagen +3
Dagstuhl Seminar 19461 "Conversational Search" was held on 10-15 November 2019. 44~researchers in Information Retrieval and Web Search, Natural Language Processing, Human Computer…
Abstractive Snippet Generation
Wei-Fan Chen, Shahbaz Syed, Benno Stein +2
An abstractive snippet is an originally created piece of text to summarize a web page on a search engine results page. Compared to the conventional extractive snippets, which are g…