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most citedRanked List Truncation for Large Language Model-based Re-Ranking

26 citations · 53 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.IR2026

Re-Rankers as Relevance Judges

Chuan Meng, Jiqun Liu, Mohammad Aliannejadi +3

Using large language models (LLMs) to predict relevance judgments has shown promising results. Most studies treat this task as a distinct research line, e.g., focusing on prompt de…

cs.IR2025

Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the LLM Era

Fengran Mo, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi +1

Conversational search enables multi-turn interactions between users and systems to fulfill users' complex information needs. During this interaction, the system should understand t…

cs.IR2025

Improving the Reusability of Conversational Search Test Collections

Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Chuan Meng, Leif Azzopardi +1

Incomplete relevance judgments limit the reusability of test collections. When new systems are compared to previous systems that contributed to the pool, they often face a disadvan…

cs.IR2025

Zero-Shot and Efficient Clarification Need Prediction in Conversational Search

Lili Lu, Chuan Meng, Federico Ravenda +2

Clarification need prediction (CNP) is a key task in conversational search, aiming to predict whether to ask a clarifying question or give an answer to the current user query. Howe…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Generative Retrieval with Few-shot Indexing

Arian Askari, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi +3

Existing generative retrieval (GR) methods rely on training-based indexing, which fine-tunes a model to memorise associations between queries and the document identifiers (docids)…

cs.IR2024★ 4 cited

Can We Use Large Language Models to Fill Relevance Judgment Holes?

Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Chuan Meng, Leif Azzopardi +1

Incomplete relevance judgments limit the re-usability of test collections. When new systems are compared against previous systems used to build the pool of judged documents, they o…

cs.IR2024★ 26 cited

Ranked List Truncation for Large Language Model-based Re-Ranking

Chuan Meng, Negar Arabzadeh, Arian Askari +2

We study ranked list truncation (RLT) from a novel "retrieve-then-re-rank" perspective, where we optimize re-ranking by truncating the retrieved list (i.e., trim re-ranking candida…

cs.IR2024★ 20 cited

Query Performance Prediction using Relevance Judgments Generated by Large Language Models

Chuan Meng, Negar Arabzadeh, Arian Askari +2

Query performance prediction (QPP) aims to estimate the retrieval quality of a search system for a query without human relevance judgments. Previous QPP methods typically return a…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Self-seeding and Multi-intent Self-instructing LLMs for Generating Intent-aware Information-Seeking dialogs

Arian Askari, Roxana Petcu, Chuan Meng +4

Identifying user intents in information-seeking dialogs is crucial for a system to meet user's information needs. Intent prediction (IP) is challenging and demands sufficient dialo…