Learning a similarity function between pairs of objects is at the core of learning to rank
approaches. In information retrieval tasks we typically deal with query-document pairs, in …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Large transformer-based language models have been shown to be very effective in many
classification tasks. However, their computational complexity prevents their use in …

Software developers have heavily used online question-and-answer platforms to seek help
to solve their technical problems. However, a major problem with these technical Q8A sites …

We study the problem of explaining relationships between pairs of knowledge graph entities
with human-readable descriptions. Our method extracts and enriches sentences that refer to …

Finding similar questions from historical archives has been applied to question answering,
with well theoretical underpinnings and great practical success. Nevertheless, each …

The majority of Internet users search for medical information online; however, many do not
have an adequate medical vocabulary. Users might have difficulties finding the most …

A frequently asked questions (FAQ) retrieval system improves the access to information by
allowing users to pose natural language queries over an FAQ collection. From an …

News and social media now play a synergistic role and neither domain can be grasped in
isolation. On one hand, platforms such as Twitter have taken a central role in the …

Community question answering sites has seen a spectacular increase in popularity in the
recent past. These are online communities in which user can interact on wide variety of …