14 papers
HLTCOE at TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, Orion Weller +1
The HLTCOE team applied PLAID, an mT5 reranker, GPT-4 reranker, score fusion, and document translation to the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR track. For PLAID we included a variety of models and…
Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
Dawn Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield +4
The principal goal of the TREC Neural Cross-Language Information Retrieval (NeuCLIR) track is to study the effect of neural approaches on cross-language information access. The tra…
mmBERT: A Modern Multilingual Encoder with Annealed Language Learning
Marc Marone, Orion Weller, William Fleshman +3
Encoder-only languages models are frequently used for a variety of standard machine learning tasks, including classification and retrieval. However, there has been a lack of recent…
HLTCOE at LiveRAG: GPT-Researcher using ColBERT retrieval
Kevin Duh, Eugene Yang, Orion Weller +2
The HLTCOE LiveRAG submission utilized the GPT-researcher framework for researching the context of the question, filtering the returned results, and generating the final answer. Th…
Rank-K: Test-Time Reasoning for Listwise Reranking
Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates, Kathryn Ricci +4
Retrieve-and-rerank is a popular retrieval pipeline because of its ability to make slow but effective rerankers efficient enough at query time by reducing the number of comparisons…
MURR: Model Updating with Regularized Replay for Searching a Document Stream
Eugene Yang, Nicola Tonellotto, Dawn Lawrie +4
The Internet produces a continuous stream of new documents and user-generated queries. These naturally change over time based on events in the world and the evolution of language.…