no code implementations • 27 May 2024 • Kaustubh D. Dhole, Ramraj Chandradevan, Eugene Agichtein
Query Reformulation (QR) is a set of techniques used to transform a user's original search query to a text that better aligns with the user's intent and improves their search experience.
1 code implementation • 3 Apr 2024 • Ramraj Chandradevan, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Eugene Agichtein
State-of-the-art neural rankers pre-trained on large task-specific training data such as MS-MARCO, have been shown to exhibit strong performance on various ranking tasks without domain adaptation, also called zero-shot.
1 code implementation • 23 Mar 2024 • Kaustubh D. Dhole, Shivam Bajaj, Ramraj Chandradevan, Eugene Agichtein
To enable exploration and to support Human-In-The-Loop experiments we propose QueryExplorer -- an interactive query generation, reformulation, and retrieval interface with support for HuggingFace generation models and PyTerrier's retrieval pipelines and datasets, and extensive logging of human feedback.
2 code implementations • 19 Nov 2023 • Kaustubh D. Dhole, Ramraj Chandradevan, Eugene Agichtein
While search is the predominant method of accessing information, formulating effective queries remains a challenging task, especially for situations where the users are not familiar with a domain, or searching for documents in other languages, or looking for complex information such as events, which are not easily expressible as queries.
no code implementations • 25 Apr 2022 • Eugene Yang, Suraj Nair, Ramraj Chandradevan, Rebecca Iglesias-Flores, Douglas W. Oard
Pretrained language models have improved effectiveness on numerous tasks, including ad-hoc retrieval.