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most citedHow Discriminative Are Your Qrels? How To Study the Statistical Significance of Document Adjudication Methods

22 citations · 27 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.IR2026

User Preference Induction with LLMs for Offline Top-N Recommendation Evaluation

David Otero, Javier Parapar

Offline evaluation is the standard methodology for comparing top-N recommender systems, yet it relies on incomplete relevance information. In most benchmark datasets, only a small…

cs.CL2026

Learning Evidence of Depression Symptoms via Prompt Induction

Eliseo Bao, Anxo Perez, David Otero +1

Depression places substantial pressure on mental health services, and many people describe their experiences outside clinical settings in high-volume user-generated text (e.g., onl…

cs.IR2026

Hybrid Pooling with LLMs via Relevance Context Learning

David Otero, Javier Parapar

High-quality relevance judgements over large query sets are essential for evaluating Information Retrieval (IR) systems, yet manual annotation remains costly and time-consuming. La…

cs.IR2026

LLM-Assisted Pseudo-Relevance Feedback

David Otero, Javier Parapar

Query expansion is a long-standing technique to mitigate vocabulary mismatch in ad hoc Information Retrieval. Pseudo-relevance feedback methods, such as RM3, estimate an expanded q…

cs.CL2025

Can LLMs Evaluate What They Cannot Annotate? Revisiting LLM Reliability in Hate Speech Detection

Paloma Piot, David Otero, Patricia Martín-Rodilla +1

Hate speech spreads widely online, harming individuals and communities, making automatic detection essential for large-scale moderation, yet detecting it remains difficult. Part of…

cs.IR2025

Towards Reliable Testing for Multiple Information Retrieval System Comparisons

David Otero, Javier Parapar, Álvaro Barreiro

Null Hypothesis Significance Testing is the \textit{de facto} tool for assessing effectiveness differences between Information Retrieval systems. Researchers use statistical tests…

cs.IR2024★ 5 cited

Limitations of Automatic Relevance Assessments with Large Language Models for Fair and Reliable Retrieval Evaluation

David Otero, Javier Parapar, Álvaro Barreiro

Offline evaluation of search systems depends on test collections. These benchmarks provide the researchers with a corpus of documents, topics and relevance judgements indicating wh…

cs.IR2023★ 22 cited

How Discriminative Are Your Qrels? How To Study the Statistical Significance of Document Adjudication Methods

David Otero, Javier Parapar, Nicola Ferro

Creating test collections for offline retrieval evaluation requires human effort to judge documents' relevance. This expensive activity motivated much work in developing methods fo…