Y Zhu, H Yuan, S Wang, J Liu, W Liu, C Deng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As a primary means of information acquisition, information retrieval (IR) systems, such as search engines, have integrated themselves into our daily lives. These systems also serve …
The goal of text ranking is to generate an ordered list of texts retrieved from a corpus in response to a query. Although the most common formulation of text ranking is search …
One technique to improve the retrieval effectiveness of a search engine is to expand documents with terms that are related or representative of the documents' content. From the …
B Mitra, N Craswell - Foundations and Trends® in Information …, 2018 - nowpublishers.com
Neural ranking models for information retrieval (IR) use shallow or deep neural networks to rank search results in response to a query. Traditional learning to rank models employ …
The core of information retrieval (IR) is to identify relevant information from large-scale resources and return it as a ranked list to respond to user's information need. In recent years …
Researchers have successfully applied large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT to reranking in an information retrieval context, but to date, such work has mostly been built on …
We propose Generation-Augmented Retrieval (GAR) for answering open-domain questions, which augments a query through text generation of heuristically discovered relevant …
P Yang, H Fang, J Lin - Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ), 2018 - dl.acm.org
This work tackles the perennial problem of reproducible baselines in information retrieval research, focusing on bag-of-words ranking models. Although academic information …
W Yang, H Zhang, J Lin - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.10972, 2019 - arxiv.org
Following recent successes in applying BERT to question answering, we explore simple applications to ad hoc document retrieval. This required confronting the challenge posed by …