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most citedDeepRank: A New Deep Architecture for Relevance Ranking in Information Retrieval

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cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Uncertainty Calibration for Ensemble-Based Debiasing Methods

Ruibin Xiong, Yimeng Chen, Liang Pang +2

Ensemble-based debiasing methods have been shown effective in mitigating the reliance of classifiers on specific dataset bias, by exploiting the output of a bias-only model to adju…

q-bio.GN2021★ 14 cited

Multi-modal Self-supervised Pre-training for Regulatory Genome Across Cell Types

Shentong Mo, Xi Fu, Chenyang Hong +6

In the genome biology research, regulatory genome modeling is an important topic for many regulatory downstream tasks, such as promoter classification, transaction factor binding s…

cs.CL2021

Adaptive Bridge between Training and Inference for Dialogue

Haoran Xu, Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Zou +3

Although exposure bias has been widely studied in some NLP tasks, it faces its unique challenges in dialogue response generation, the representative one-to-various generation scena…

cs.CL2021

FCM: A Fine-grained Comparison Model for Multi-turn Dialogue Reasoning

Xu Wang, Hainan Zhang, Shuai Zhao +5

Despite the success of neural dialogue systems in achieving high performance on the leader-board, they cannot meet users' requirements in practice, due to their poor reasoning skil…

cs.CL2021

Transductive Learning for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Fei Xiao, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan +3

Unsupervised style transfer models are mainly based on an inductive learning approach, which represents the style as embeddings, decoder parameters, or discriminator parameters and…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Adaptive Information Seeking for Open-Domain Question Answering

Yunchang Zhu, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan +2

Information seeking is an essential step for open-domain question answering to efficiently gather evidence from a large corpus. Recently, iterative approaches have been proven to b…

cs.IR2021★ 2 cited

Toward the Understanding of Deep Text Matching Models for Information Retrieval

Lijuan Chen, Yanyan Lan, Liang Pang +2

Semantic text matching is a critical problem in information retrieval. Recently, deep learning techniques have been widely used in this area and obtained significant performance im…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

A Discriminative Semantic Ranker for Question Retrieval

Yinqiong Cai, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo +3

Similar question retrieval is a core task in community-based question answering (CQA) services. To balance the effectiveness and efficiency, the question retrieval system is typica…

cs.AI2021★ 15 cited

Pre-Trained Models: Past, Present and Future

Xu Han, Zhengyan Zhang, Ning Ding +21

Large-scale pre-trained models (PTMs) such as BERT and GPT have recently achieved great success and become a milestone in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Owing to sophis…

cs.CL2021

Sketch and Customize: A Counterfactual Story Generator

Changying Hao, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan +3

Recent text generation models are easy to generate relevant and fluent text for the given text, while lack of causal reasoning ability when we change some parts of the given text.…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Probing Product Description Generation via Posterior Distillation

Haolan Zhan, Hainan Zhang, Hongshen Chen +5

In product description generation (PDG), the user-cared aspect is critical for the recommendation system, which can not only improve user's experiences but also obtain more clicks.…

cs.CV2021★ 84 cited

WenLan: Bridging Vision and Language by Large-Scale Multi-Modal Pre-Training

Yuqi Huo, Manli Zhang, Guangzhen Liu +32

Multi-modal pre-training models have been intensively explored to bridge vision and language in recent years. However, most of them explicitly model the cross-modal interaction bet…

cs.IR2021★ 15 cited

A Linguistic Study on Relevance Modeling in Information Retrieval

Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Xinyu Ma +3

Relevance plays a central role in information retrieval (IR), which has received extensive studies starting from the 20th century. The definition and the modeling of relevance has…

cs.IR2021

Learning to Truncate Ranked Lists for Information Retrieval

Chen Wu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo +3

Ranked list truncation is of critical importance in a variety of professional information retrieval applications such as patent search or legal search. The goal is to dynamically d…

cs.IR2021

User-Inspired Posterior Network for Recommendation Reason Generation

Haolan Zhan, Hainan Zhang, Hongshen Chen +4

Recommendation reason generation, aiming at showing the selling points of products for customers, plays a vital role in attracting customers' attention as well as improving user ex…

cs.CL2021★ 20 cited

Match-Ignition: Plugging PageRank into Transformer for Long-form Text Matching

Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng

Neural text matching models have been widely used in community question answering, information retrieval, and dialogue. However, these models designed for short texts cannot well a…