In light of the emergence of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in recommender systems research and several fruitful results in recent years, this survey aims to provide a timely and …
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The Relevance Feedback (RF) process relies on accurate and real-time relevance estimation of feedback documents to improve retrieval performance. Since collecting explicit …
Conversational Information Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging field of Information Retrieval (IR) at the intersection of interactive IR and dialogue systems for open domain information …
Query performance prediction (QPP) methods, which aim to predict the performance of a query, often rely on evidences in the form of different characteristic patterns in the …
Improving user retention with reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention due to its significant importance in boosting user engagement. However, training the RL …
When ranking a list of documents relative to a given query, the vocabulary mismatches could compromise the performance, as a result of the different language used in the queries and …
This paper presents first successful steps in designing search agents that learn meta- strategies for iterative query refinement in information-seeking tasks. Our approach uses …
Large language model (LLM) based agents have recently attracted much attention from the research and industry communities. Compared with original LLMs, LLM-based agents are …
Performing automatic reformulations of a user's query is a popular paradigm used in information retrieval (IR) for improving effectiveness--as exemplified by the pseudo …