no code implementations • 20 Dec 2018 • Bi Keping, Ai Qingyao, Croft W. Bruce
In this paper, we study iterative relevance feedback techniques with a focus on retrieving answer passages.
no code implementations • 15 Jul 2018 • Zamani Hamed, Croft W. Bruce
We list a number of future directions for this line of research that can potentially lead to development of state-of-the-art search and recommendation models.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2018 • Aliannejadi Mohammad, Zamani Hamed, Crestani Fabio, Croft W. Bruce
As a consequence, users are getting engaged with the mobile apps and frequently search for an information need in their apps.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2018 • Zamani Hamed, Croft W. Bruce
We briefly review a set of our recent theoretical findings that shed light on learning from weakly supervised data, and provide guidelines on how train learning to rank models with weak supervision.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2018 • Cohen Daniel, Jordan Scott M., Croft W. Bruce
With the rise of neural models across the field of information retrieval, numerous publications have incrementally pushed the envelope of performance for a multitude of IR tasks.
no code implementations • 10 May 2018 • Cohen Daniel, Yang Liu, Croft W. Bruce
With the rise in mobile and voice search, answer passage retrieval acts as a critical component of an effective information retrieval system for open domain question answering.