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Critically Examining the "Neural Hype": Weak Baselines and the Additivity of Effectiveness Gains from Neural Ranking Models
Wei Yang, Kuang Lu, Peilin Yang +1
Is neural IR mostly hype? In a recent SIGIR Forum article, Lin expressed skepticism that neural ranking models were actually improving ad hoc retrieval effectiveness in limited dat…
Document Expansion by Query Prediction
Rodrigo Nogueira, Wei Yang, Jimmy Lin +1
One technique to improve the retrieval effectiveness of a search engine is to expand documents with terms that are related or representative of the documents' content.From the pers…
Simple Applications of BERT for Ad Hoc Document Retrieval
Wei Yang, Haotian Zhang, Jimmy Lin
Following recent successes in applying BERT to question answering, we explore simple applications to ad hoc document retrieval. This required confronting the challenge posed by doc…
Multi-Perspective Relevance Matching with Hierarchical ConvNets for Social Media Search
Jinfeng Rao, Wei Yang, Yuhao Zhang +2
Despite substantial interest in applications of neural networks to information retrieval, neural ranking models have only been applied to standard ad hoc retrieval tasks over web p…