1 code implementation • 15 Nov 2023 • Hansi Zeng, Chen Luo, Bowen Jin, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Tianxin Wei, Hamed Zamani
This paper represents an important milestone in generative retrieval research by showing, for the first time, that generative retrieval models can be trained to perform effectively on large-scale standard retrieval benchmarks.
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2021 • Dong-Ho Lee, Ravi Kiran Selvam, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Bill Yuchen Lin, Fred Morstatter, Jay Pujara, Elizabeth Boschee, James Allan, Xiang Ren
Deep neural models for named entity recognition (NER) have shown impressive results in overcoming label scarcity and generalizing to unseen entities by leveraging distant supervision and auxiliary information such as explanations.
Low Resource Named Entity Recognition named-entity-recognition +2
no code implementations • 7 Sep 2021 • Zhiqi Huang, Hamed Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Razieh Rahimi, James Allan
In the monolingual retrieval task, because of the same lexical inputs, it is easier for model to identify the query terms that occurred in documents.
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2021 • Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Vanessa Murdock
As content moderation is itself harmful to the people doing it, we desire to reduce the burden by improving the automatic detection of hate speech.
Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction Data Augmentation +2
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Brendan O'Connor
Automated event extraction in social science applications often requires corpus-level evaluations: for example, aggregating text predictions across metadata and unbiased estimates of recall.
no code implementations • 31 Mar 2021 • Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Dimitrina Zlatkova, Momchil Hardalov, Yoan Dinkov, Isabelle Augenstein, Preslav Nakov
The framework is based on a nearest-neighbour architecture.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2021 • Arnav Arora, Preslav Nakov, Momchil Hardalov, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Vibha Nayak, Yoan Dinkov, Dimitrina Zlatkova, Kyle Dent, Ameya Bhatawdekar, Guillaume Bouchard, Isabelle Augenstein
The proliferation of harmful content on online platforms is a major societal problem, which comes in many different forms including hate speech, offensive language, bullying and harassment, misinformation, spam, violence, graphic content, sexual abuse, self harm, and many other.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2019 • Shahrzad Naseri, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan
A common approach for knowledge-base entity search is to consider an entity as a document with multiple fields.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Hamed Bonab, James Allan
We describe a multi-task learning approach to train a Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model with a Relevance-based Auxiliary Task (RAT) for search query translation.
1 code implementation • 12 Jun 2018 • 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.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2015 • Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Mahamudul Hasan, Dmitry I. Ignatov
In this paper we describe our machine learning solution for the RecSys Challenge, 2015.