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most citedExplainable Information Retrieval: A Survey

35 citations · 39 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.LG2024

Local Feature Selection without Label or Feature Leakage for Interpretable Machine Learning Predictions

Harrie Oosterhuis, Lijun Lyu, Avishek Anand

Local feature selection in machine learning provides instance-specific explanations by focusing on the most relevant features for each prediction, enhancing the interpretability of…

cs.IR2024

Is Interpretable Machine Learning Effective at Feature Selection for Neural Learning-to-Rank?

Lijun Lyu, Nirmal Roy, Harrie Oosterhuis +1

Neural ranking models have become increasingly popular for real-world search and recommendation systems in recent years. Unlike their tree-based counterparts, neural models are muc…

cs.IR2022★ 35 cited

Explainable Information Retrieval: A Survey

Avishek Anand, Lijun Lyu, Maximilian Idahl +3

Explainable information retrieval is an emerging research area aiming to make transparent and trustworthy information retrieval systems. Given the increasing use of complex machine…

cs.IR2022★ 4 cited

BERT Rankers are Brittle: a Study using Adversarial Document Perturbations

Yumeng Wang, Lijun Lyu, Avishek Anand

Contextual ranking models based on BERT are now well established for a wide range of passage and document ranking tasks. However, the robustness of BERT-based ranking models under…

cs.AI2021

Towards Benchmarking the Utility of Explanations for Model Debugging

Maximilian Idahl, Lijun Lyu, Ujwal Gadiraju +1

Post-hoc explanation methods are an important class of approaches that help understand the rationale underlying a trained model's decision. But how useful are they for an end-user…

cs.CL2021

Neural OCR Post-Hoc Correction of Historical Corpora

Lijun Lyu, Maria Koutraki, Martin Krickl +1

Optical character recognition (OCR) is crucial for a deeper access to historical collections. OCR needs to account for orthographic variations, typefaces, or language evolution (i.…