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User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems
Krisztian Balog, ChengXiang Zhai
Information access systems, such as search engines, recommender systems, and conversational assistants, have become integral to our daily lives as they help us satisfy our informat…
Measuring the Effect of Influential Messages on Varying Personas
Chenkai Sun, Jinning Li, Hou Pong Chan +2
Predicting how a user responds to news events enables important applications such as allowing intelligent agents or content producers to estimate the effect on different communitie…
Noise-Robust Dense Retrieval via Contrastive Alignment Post Training
Daniel Campos, ChengXiang Zhai, Alessandro Magnani
The success of contextual word representations and advances in neural information retrieval have made dense vector-based retrieval a standard approach for passage and document rank…
Dense Sparse Retrieval: Using Sparse Language Models for Inference Efficient Dense Retrieval
Daniel Campos, ChengXiang Zhai
Vector-based retrieval systems have become a common staple for academic and industrial search applications because they provide a simple and scalable way of extending the search to…
Entity Set Co-Expansion in StackOverflow
Yu Zhang, Yunyi Zhang, Yucheng Jiang +5
Given a few seed entities of a certain type (e.g., Software or Programming Language), entity set expansion aims to discover an extensive set of entities that share the same type as…
Improving Candidate Retrieval with Entity Profile Generation for Wikidata Entity Linking
Tuan Manh Lai, Heng Ji, ChengXiang Zhai
Entity linking (EL) is the task of linking entity mentions in a document to referent entities in a knowledge base (KB). Many previous studies focus on Wikipedia-derived KBs. There…