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Entity-Assisted Language Models for Identifying Check-worthy Sentences
Ting Su, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
We propose a new uniform framework for text classification and ranking that can automate the process of identifying check-worthy sentences in political debates and speech transcrip…
Leveraging Users' Social Network Embeddings for Fake News Detection on Twitter
Ting Su, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
Social networks (SNs) are increasingly important sources of news for many people. The online connections made by users allows information to spread more easily than traditional new…
Adaptive Re-Ranking with a Corpus Graph
Sean MacAvaney, Nicola Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald
Search systems often employ a re-ranking pipeline, wherein documents (or passages) from an initial pool of candidates are assigned new ranking scores. The process enables the use o…
A Systematic Review and Replicability Study of BERT4Rec for Sequential Recommendation
Aleksandr Petrov, Craig Macdonald
BERT4Rec is an effective model for sequential recommendation based on the Transformer architecture. In the original publication, BERT4Rec claimed superiority over other available s…
Effective and Efficient Training for Sequential Recommendation using Recency Sampling
Aleksandr Petrov, Craig Macdonald
Many modern sequential recommender systems use deep neural networks, which can effectively estimate the relevance of items but require a lot of time to train. Slow training increas…
Reproducing Personalised Session Search over the AOL Query Log
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
Despite its troubled past, the AOL Query Log continues to be an important resource to the research community -- particularly for tasks like search personalisation. When using the q…