33 citations · 48 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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cs.IR2022★ 33 cited
Pre-train a Discriminative Text Encoder for Dense Retrieval via Contrastive Span Prediction
Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang +2
Dense retrieval has shown promising results in many information retrieval (IR) related tasks, whose foundation is high-quality text representation learning for effective search. So…
cs.IR2021★ 15 cited
A Linguistic Study on Relevance Modeling in Information Retrieval
Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Xinyu Ma +3
Relevance plays a central role in information retrieval (IR), which has received extensive studies starting from the 20th century. The definition and the modeling of relevance has…
cs.IR2020
PROP: Pre-training with Representative Words Prediction for Ad-hoc Retrieval
Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang +3
Recently pre-trained language representation models such as BERT have shown great success when fine-tuned on downstream tasks including information retrieval (IR). However, pre-tra…