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We show that discourse structure, as defined by Rhetorical Structure Theory and provided by an existing discourse parser, benefits text categorization. Our approach uses a recursive neural network and a newly proposed attention mechanism to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yangfeng Ji , Noah Smith

Recently, knowledge-grounded conversations in the open domain gain great attention from researchers. Existing works on retrieval-based dialogue systems have paid tremendous efforts to utilize neural networks to build a matching model, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kai Hua , Zhiyuan Feng , Chongyang Tao , Rui Yan , Lu Zhang

We present an efficient and robust reference resolution algorithm in an end-to-end state-of-the-art information extraction system, which must work with a considerably impoverished syntactic analysis of the input sentences. Considering this…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Megumi Kameyama

This paper challenges a cross-genre document retrieval task, where the queries are in formal writing and the target documents are in conversational writing. In this task, a query, is a sentence extracted from either a summary or a plot of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Tomasz Jurczyk , Jinho D. Choi

Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval (RIR) targets retrieval settings where relevance is mediated by latent inferential links between a query and supporting evidence, rather than semantic similarity. Motivated by the emergent reasoning abilities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yiyang Wei , Tingyu Song , Siyue Zhang , Yilun Zhao

Information retrieval has long focused on ranking documents by semantic relatedness. Yet many real-world information needs demand more: enforcement of logical constraints, multi-step inference, and synthesis of multiple pieces of evidence.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mohanna Hoveyda , Panagiotis Efstratiadis , Arjen de Vries , Maarten de Rijke

Discourse structure is the hidden link between surface features and document-level properties, such as sentiment polarity. We show that the discourse analyses produced by Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) parsers can improve document-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Parminder Bhatia , Yangfeng Ji , Jacob Eisenstein

In this paper, we explore the usage of Word Embedding semantic resources for Information Retrieval (IR) task. This embedding, produced by a shallow neural network, have been shown to catch semantic similarities between words (Mikolov et…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jibril Frej , Jean-Pierre Chevallet , Didier Schwab

Information Retrieval (IR) is the task of obtaining pieces of data (such as documents or snippets of text) that are relevant to a particular query or need from a large repository of information. While a combination of traditional keyword-…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Samarth Rawal , Chitta Baral

Information retrieval (IR) plays a crucial role in locating relevant resources from vast amounts of data, and its applications have evolved from traditional knowledge bases to modern retrieval models (RMs). The emergence of large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jiazhan Feng , Chongyang Tao , Xiubo Geng , Tao Shen , Can Xu , Guodong Long , Dongyan Zhao , Daxin Jiang

State-of-the-art methods for relation extraction consider the sentential context by modeling the entire sentence. However, syntactic indicators, certain phrases or words like prepositions that are more informative than other words and may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Qiongxing Tao , Xiangfeng Luo , Hao Wang

This paper is a survey discussing Information Retrieval concepts, methods, and applications. It goes deep into the document and query modelling involved in IR systems, in addition to pre-processing operations such as removing stop words and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Youssef Bassil

Automated detection of semantically equivalent questions in longitudinal social science surveys is crucial for long-term studies informing empirical research in the social, economic, and health sciences. Retrieving equivalent questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Wing Yan Li , Zeqiang Wang , Jon Johnson , Suparna De

Retrieval and content management are assumed to be mutually exclusive. In this paper we suggest that they need not be so. In the usual information retrieval scenario, some information about queries leading to a website (due to `hits' or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-29 C Ravindranath Chowdary , Anil Kumar Singh , Anil Nelakanti

Large amount of unstructured designed information is difficult to deal with. Obtaining specific information is a hard mission and takes a lot of time. Information Retrieval System (IR) is a way to solve this kind of problem. IR is a good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Maher Abdullah , Mohammed GH. I. Al Zamil

Rhetorical figures play a major role in our everyday communication as they make text more interesting, more memorable, or more persuasive. Therefore, it is important to computationally detect rhetorical figures to fully understand the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ramona Kühn , Jelena Mitrović , Michael Granitzer

Recent research has shown that mixed-initiative conversational search, based on the interaction between users and computers to clarify and improve a query, provides enormous advantages. Nonetheless, incorporating additional information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Oleg Borisov , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

In this paper, we study jointly query reformulation and document relevance estimation, the two essential aspects of information retrieval (IR). Their interactions are modelled as a two-player strategic game: one player, a query formulator,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Shihao Zou , Guanyu Tao , Jun Wang , Weinan Zhang , Dell Zhang

Retrieval-augmented language models pose a promising alternative to standard language modeling. During pretraining, these models search in a corpus of documents for contextually relevant information that could aid the language modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 David Samuel , Lucas Georges Gabriel Charpentier , Sondre Wold

The paper introduces scholarly Information Retrieval (IR) as a further dimension that should be considered in the science modeling debate. The IR use case is seen as a validation model of the adequacy of science models in representing and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Peter Mutschke , Philipp Mayr , Philipp Schaer , York Sure