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most citedTo Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, Dense and Sparse Retrievers

17 citations · 21 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.IR2024

TPRF: A Transformer-based Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Model for Efficient and Effective Retrieval

Hang Li, Chuting Yu, Ahmed Mourad +2

This paper considers Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) methods for dense retrievers in a resource constrained environment such as that of cheap cloud instances or embedded systems (e…

cs.IR2022

AgAsk: An Agent to Help Answer Farmer's Questions From Scientific Documents

Bevan Koopman, Ahmed Mourad, Hang Li +6

Decisions in agriculture are increasingly data-driven; however, valuable agricultural knowledge is often locked away in free-text reports, manuals and journal articles. Specialised…

cs.IR2022

How does Feedback Signal Quality Impact Effectiveness of Pseudo Relevance Feedback for Passage Retrieval?

Hang Li, Ahmed Mourad, Bevan Koopman +1

Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) assumes that the top results retrieved by a first-stage ranker are relevant to the original query and uses them to improve the query representation…

cs.IR2022★ 17 cited

To Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, Dense and Sparse Retrievers

Hang Li, Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang +4

Current pre-trained language model approaches to information retrieval can be broadly divided into two categories: sparse retrievers (to which belong also non-neural approaches suc…

cs.IR2021

Seed-driven Document Ranking for Systematic Reviews: A Reproducibility Study

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Ahmed Mourad +1

Screening or assessing studies is critical to the quality and outcomes of a systematic review. Typically, a Boolean query retrieves the set of studies to screen. As the set of stud…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

Improving Query Representations for Dense Retrieval with Pseudo Relevance Feedback: A Reproducibility Study

Hang Li, Shengyao Zhuang, Ahmed Mourad +3

Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) utilises the relevance signals from the top-k passages from the first round of retrieval to perform a second round of retrieval aiming to improve se…

cs.IR2021★ 3 cited

Pseudo Relevance Feedback with Deep Language Models and Dense Retrievers: Successes and Pitfalls

Hang Li, Ahmed Mourad, Shengyao Zhuang +2

Pseudo Relevance Feedback (PRF) is known to improve the effectiveness of bag-of-words retrievers. At the same time, deep language models have been shown to outperform traditional b…