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most citedir_explain: a Python Library of Explainable IR Methods

2 citations · 4 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.IR2026

Towards Explaining Query Expansion Performance in Information Retrieval

Sourav Saha, Aditya Dutta, Soumajit Pramanik +1

Query Expansion (QE) techniques have long been widely used in Information Retrieval (IR) to address the vocabulary mismatch problem. They remain relevant in modern retrieval system…

cs.CL2026

LiCQA : A Lightweight Complex Question Answering System

Sourav Saha, Dwaipayan Roy, Mandar Mitra

Over the last twenty years, significant progress has been made in designing and implementing Question Answering (QA) systems. However, addressing complex questions, the answers to…

cs.IR2026★ 1 cited

LLMs as Assessors: Right for the Right Reason?

Sourav Saha, Mandar Mitra, Aditya Dutta

A good deal of recent research has focused on how Large Language Models (LLMs) may be used as judges in place of humans to evaluate the quality of the output produced by various te…

cs.IR2025

Combining Query Performance Predictors: A Reproducibility Study

Sourav Saha, Suchana Datta, Dwaipayan Roy +2

A large number of approaches to Query Performance Prediction (QPP) have been proposed over the last two decades. As early as 2009, Hauff et al. [28] explored whether different QPP…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

ir_explain: a Python Library of Explainable IR Methods

Sourav Saha, Harsh Agarwal, V Venktesh +4

While recent advancements in Neural Ranking Models have resulted in significant improvements over traditional statistical retrieval models, it is generally acknowledged that the us…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Explainability of Text Processing and Retrieval Methods: A Survey

Sourav Saha, Debapriyo Majumdar, Mandar Mitra

Deep Learning and Machine Learning based models have become extremely popular in text processing and information retrieval. However, the non-linear structures present inside the ne…