Search Results for author: Croft W. Bruce

Found 6 papers, 0 papers with code

Iterative Relevance Feedback for Answer Passage Retrieval with Passage-level Semantic Match

no code implementations20 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.

Passage Retrieval Retrieval +2

Joint Modeling and Optimization of Search and Recommendation

no code implementations15 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.

Recommendation Systems Retrieval

Target Apps Selection: Towards a Unified Search Framework for Mobile Devices

no code implementations13 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.

Retrieval

Towards Theoretical Understanding of Weak Supervision for Information Retrieval

no code implementations13 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.

Information Retrieval Learning-To-Rank +1

Distributed Evaluations: Ending Neural Point Metrics

no code implementations11 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.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

WikiPassageQA: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Non-factoid Answer Passage Retrieval

no code implementations10 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.

Open-Domain Question Answering Passage Retrieval +1

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