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cs.IR2025

Overview of the TREC 2023 deep learning track

Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz +5

This is the fifth year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human-annotated training labels a…

cs.IR2025

Towards Understanding Bias in Synthetic Data for Evaluation

Hossein A. Rahmani, Varsha Ramineni, Emine Yilmaz +2

Test collections are crucial for evaluating Information Retrieval (IR) systems. Creating a diverse set of user queries for these collections can be challenging, and obtaining relev…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

Judging the Judges: A Collection of LLM-Generated Relevance Judgements

Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi +6

Using Large Language Models (LLMs) for relevance assessments offers promising opportunities to improve Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and related fi…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

JudgeBlender: Ensembling Judgments for Automatic Relevance Assessment

Hossein A. Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell +1

The effective training and evaluation of retrieval systems require a substantial amount of relevance judgments, which are traditionally collected from human assessors -- a process…

cs.IR2024

LLMJudge: LLMs for Relevance Judgments

Hossein A. Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell +6

The LLMJudge challenge is organized as part of the LLM4Eval workshop at SIGIR 2024. Test collections are essential for evaluating information retrieval (IR) systems. The evaluation…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Report on the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) at SIGIR 2024

Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi +6

The first edition of the workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) took place in July 2024, co-located with the ACM SIGIR Conference…

cs.IR2024★ 3 cited

SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval

Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz +3

Large-scale test collections play a crucial role in Information Retrieval (IR) research. However, according to the Cranfield paradigm and the research into publicly available datas…

cs.IR2024

Synthetic Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation

Hossein A. Rahmani, Nick Craswell, Emine Yilmaz +2

Test collections play a vital role in evaluation of information retrieval (IR) systems. Obtaining a diverse set of user queries for test collection construction can be challenging,…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Clarifying the Path to User Satisfaction: An Investigation into Clarification Usefulness

Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Mohammad Aliannejadi +2

Clarifying questions are an integral component of modern information retrieval systems, directly impacting user satisfaction and overall system performance. Poorly formulated quest…