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Information retrieval systems have traditionally relied on exact term match methods such as BM25 for first-stage retrieval. However, recent advancements in neural network-based techniques have introduced a new method called dense retrieval.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ahmed H. Salamah , Pierre McWhannel , Nicole Yan

This paper develops a model that addresses sentence embedding, a hot topic in current natural language processing research, using recurrent neural networks with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) cells. Due to its ability to capture long term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hamid Palangi , Li Deng , Yelong Shen , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaodong He , Jianshu Chen , Xinying Song , Rabab Ward

In this paper, we present an architecture executing a complex machine learning model such as a neural network capturing semantic similarity between a query and a document; and deploy to a real-world production system serving 500M+users. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Rohan Ramanath , Gungor Polatkan , Liqin Xu , Harold Lee , Bo Hu , Shan Zhou

We investigate the exploitation of both lexical and neural relevance signals for ad-hoc passage retrieval. Our exploration involves a large-scale training dataset in which dense neural representations of MS-MARCO queries and passages are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Franco Maria Nardini , Raffaele Perego , Nicola Tonellotto , Salvatore Trani

Semantic matching is of central importance to many natural language tasks \cite{bordes2014semantic,RetrievalQA}. A successful matching algorithm needs to adequately model the internal structures of language objects and the interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Baotian Hu , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qingcai Chen

Topic relevance between query and document is a very important part of social search, which can evaluate the degree of matching between document and user's requirement. In most social search scenarios such as Dianping, modeling search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yizhu Liu , Ran Tao , Shengyu Guo , Yifan Yang

Ranking models are the main components of information retrieval systems. Several approaches to ranking are based on traditional machine learning algorithms using a set of hand-crafted features. Recently, researchers have leveraged deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Mohamed Trabelsi , Zhiyu Chen , Brian D. Davison , Jeff Heflin

This paper concerns a deep learning approach to relevance ranking in information retrieval (IR). Existing deep IR models such as DSSM and CDSSM directly apply neural networks to generate ranking scores, without explicit understandings of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Liang Pang , Yanyan Lan , Jiafeng Guo , Jun Xu , Jingfang Xu , Xueqi Cheng

Originating in quantum physics, tensor networks (TNs) have been widely adopted as exponential machines and parameter decomposers for recognition tasks. Typical TN models, such as Matrix Product States (MPS), have not yet achieved successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Chang Nie , Junfang Chen , Yajie Chen

Recognizing toponyms and resolving them to their real-world referents is required for providing advanced semantic access to textual data. This process is often hindered by the high degree of variation in toponyms. Candidate selection is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Mariona Coll Ardanuy , Kasra Hosseini , Katherine McDonough , Amrey Krause , Daniel van Strien , Federico Nanni

Deep neural networks are powerful learning models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. In this paper, we study a fundamental question that arises when designing deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Nina Narodytska , Hongxia Jin

Widespread applications of deep learning have led to a plethora of pre-trained neural network models for common tasks. Such models are often adapted from other models via transfer learning. The models may have varying training sets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Nirmit Desai , Linsong Chu , Raghu K. Ganti , Sebastian Stein , Mudhakar Srivatsa

A fundamental goal of search engines is to identify, given a query, documents that have relevant text. This is intrinsically difficult because the query and the document may use different vocabulary, or the document may contain query words…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Bhaskar Mitra , Eric Nalisnick , Nick Craswell , Rich Caruana

Deep neural networks have achieved significant improvements in information retrieval (IR). However, most existing models are computational costly and can not efficiently scale to long documents. This paper proposes a novel End-to-End neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Chen Zheng , Yu Sun , Shengxian Wan , Dianhai Yu

Talent search and recommendation systems at LinkedIn strive to match the potential candidates to the hiring needs of a recruiter or a hiring manager expressed in terms of a search query or a job posting. Recent work in this domain has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Rohan Ramanath , Hakan Inan , Gungor Polatkan , Bo Hu , Qi Guo , Cagri Ozcaglar , Xianren Wu , Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Sahin Cem Geyik

As an alternative to question answering methods based on feature engineering, deep learning approaches such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory Models (LSTMs) have recently been proposed for semantic matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Liu Yang , Qingyao Ai , Jiafeng Guo , W. Bruce Croft

Many tasks in natural language processing, ranging from machine translation to question answering, can be reduced to the problem of matching two sentences or more generally two short texts. We propose a new approach to the problem, called…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Mingxuan Wang , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qun Liu

Click-Through Rate(CTR) estimation has become one of the most fundamental tasks in many real-world applications and it's important for ranking models to effectively capture complex high-order features. Shallow feed-forward network is widely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zhiqiang Wang , Qingyun She , Junlin Zhang

Pairing a lexical retriever with a neural re-ranking model has set state-of-the-art performance on large-scale information retrieval datasets. This pipeline covers scenarios like question answering or navigational queries, however, for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tim Baumgärtner , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

Intelligent personal assistant systems with either text-based or voice-based conversational interfaces are becoming increasingly popular around the world. Retrieval-based conversation models have the advantages of returning fluent and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Liu Yang , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Jiafeng Guo , Yongfeng Zhang , W. Bruce Croft , Jun Huang , Haiqing Chen