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Explainable Agreement through Simulation for Tasks with Subjective Labels
John Foley
The field of information retrieval often works with limited and noisy data in an attempt to classify documents into subjective categories, e.g., relevance, sentiment and controvers…
Named Entity Recognition with Extremely Limited Data
John Foley, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan
Traditional information retrieval treats named entity recognition as a pre-indexing corpus annotation task, allowing entity tags to be indexed and used during search. Named entity…
On the Equivalence of Generative and Discriminative Formulations of the Sequential Dependence Model
Laura Dietz, John Foley
The sequential dependence model (SDM) is a popular retrieval model which is based on the theory of probabilistic graphical models. While it was originally introduced by Metzler and…
Term Relevance Feedback for Contextual Named Entity Retrieval
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, James Allan
We address the role of a user in Contextual Named Entity Retrieval (CNER), showing (1) that user identification of important context-bearing terms is superior to automated approach…