6 papers
Reproducing Complex Set-Compositional Information Retrieval
Vincent Degenhart, Dewi Timman, Arjen P. de Vries +2
Complex information needs may involve set-compositional queries using conjunction, disjunction, and exclusion, yet it remains unclear whether current retrieval paradigms genuinely…
Tutorial on Reasoning for IR & IR for Reasoning
Mohanna Hoveyda, Panagiotis Efstratiadis, Arjen de Vries +1
Information retrieval has long focused on ranking documents by semantic relatedness. Yet many real-world information needs demand more: enforcement of logical constraints, multi-st…
OrLog: Resolving Complex Queries with LLMs and Probabilistic Reasoning
Mohanna Hoveyda, Jelle Piepenbrock, Arjen P de Vries +2
Resolving complex information needs that come with multiple constraints should consider enforcing the logical operators encoded in the query (i.e., conjunction, disjunction, negati…
Adaptive Orchestration of Modular Generative Information Access Systems
Mohanna Hoveyda, Harrie Oosterhuis, Arjen P. de Vries +2
Advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven the emergence of complex new systems to provide access to information, that we will collectively refer to as modular genera…
AQA: Adaptive Question Answering in a Society of LLMs via Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit
Mohanna Hoveyda, Arjen P. de Vries, Maarten de Rijke +2
In question answering (QA), different questions can be effectively addressed with different answering strategies. Some require a simple lookup, while others need complex, multi-ste…
Real World Conversational Entity Linking Requires More Than Zeroshots
Mohanna Hoveyda, Arjen P. de Vries, Maarten de Rijke +1
Entity linking (EL) in conversations faces notable challenges in practical applications, primarily due to the scarcity of entity-annotated conversational datasets and sparse knowle…