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We describe SemEval-2017 Task 3 on Community Question Answering. This year, we reran the four subtasks from SemEval-2016:(A) Question-Comment Similarity,(B) Question-Question Similarity,(C) Question-External Comment Similarity, and (D)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Preslav Nakov , Doris Hoogeveen , Lluís Màrquez , Alessandro Moschitti , Hamdy Mubarak , Timothy Baldwin , Karin Verspoor

Hypothesis ranking is vital for automated scientific discovery, especially in cost-intensive, throughput-limited natural science domains. Current methods focus on pre-experiment ranking, relying solely on language model reasoning without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Wanhao Liu , Zonglin Yang , Jue Wang , Lidong Bing , Di Zhang , Dongzhan Zhou , Yuqiang Li , Houqiang Li , Erik Cambria , Wanli Ouyang

Finding related published articles is an important task in any science, but with the explosion of new work in the biomedical domain it has become especially challenging. Most existing methodologies use text similarity metrics to identify…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Jesse M Lingeman , Hong Yu

Recently, relational metric learning methods have been received great attention in recommendation community, which is inspired by the translation mechanism in knowledge graph. Different from the knowledge graph where the entity-to-entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingming Li , Fuqing Zhu , Feng Yuan , Songlin Hu

High relevance of retrieved and re-ranked items to the search query is the cornerstone of successful product search, yet measuring relevance of items to queries is one of the most challenging tasks in product information retrieval, and…

Many deep learning architectures have been proposed to model the compositionality in text sequences, requiring a substantial number of parameters and expensive computations. However, there has not been a rigorous evaluation regarding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Dinghan Shen , Guoyin Wang , Wenlin Wang , Martin Renqiang Min , Qinliang Su , Yizhe Zhang , Chunyuan Li , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

This paper presents an empirical study to build relation extraction systems in low-resource settings. Based upon recent pre-trained language models, we comprehensively investigate three schemes to evaluate the performance in low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xin Xu , Xiang Chen , Ningyu Zhang , Xin Xie , Xi Chen , Huajun Chen

The application of large language models to provide relevance assessments presents exciting opportunities to advance information retrieval, natural language processing, and beyond, but to date many unknowns remain. This paper reports on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Shivani Upadhyay , Ronak Pradeep , Nandan Thakur , Daniel Campos , Nick Craswell , Ian Soboroff , Hoa Trang Dang , Jimmy Lin

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with hallucinations and outdated information. To address this, Information Retrieval (IR) systems can be employed to augment LLMs with up-to-date knowledge. However, existing IR techniques contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Danupat Khamnuansin , Tawunrat Chalothorn , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

Recent advances in probabilistic modelling have led to a large number of simulation-based inference algorithms which do not require numerical evaluation of likelihoods. However, a public benchmark with appropriate performance metrics for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-12 Jan-Matthis Lueckmann , Jan Boelts , David S. Greenberg , Pedro J. Gonçalves , Jakob H. Macke

Recommendations Systems allow users to identify trending items among a community while being timely and relevant to the user's expectations. When the purpose of various Recommendation Systems differs, the required type of recommendations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Dinuka Ravijaya Piyadigama , Guhanathan Poravi

Optimizing industrial search ranking models solely for user engagement signals often introduces systematic biases, prioritizing popular or price-anchored items that may not satisfy semantic intent. We present a production-scale multi-task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Luming Chen , Jiaqi Xi , Raghav Saboo , Kenny Chi , Martin Wang , Sudeep Das , Danny Nightingale , Aditya Dodda , Elyse Winer , Akshad Viswanathan

This paper introduces a new few-shot learning pipeline that casts relevance ranking for image retrieval as binary ranking relation classification. In comparison to image classification, ranking relation classification is sample efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Qianyu Guo , Hongtong Gong , Xujun Wei , Yanwei Fu , Weifeng Ge , Yizhou Yu , Wenqiang Zhang

Learning feature correspondence is a foundational task in computer vision, holding immense importance for downstream applications such as visual odometry and 3D reconstruction. Despite recent progress in data-driven models, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Zitong Zhan , Dasong Gao , Yun-Jou Lin , Youjie Xia , Chen Wang

Offline evaluation of search systems depends on test collections. These benchmarks provide the researchers with a corpus of documents, topics and relevance judgements indicating which documents are relevant for each topic. While test…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-23 David Otero , Javier Parapar , Álvaro Barreiro

Inquiry is fundamental to communication, and machines cannot effectively collaborate with humans unless they can ask questions. In this work, we build a neural network model for the task of ranking clarification questions. Our model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Sudha Rao , Hal Daumé

Ranked lists are frequently used by information retrieval (IR) systems to present results believed to be relevant to the users information need. Fairness is a relatively new but important aspect of these rankings to measure, joining a rich…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Amifa Raj , Michael D. Ekstrand

Despite the impressive improvements achieved by unsupervised deep neural networks in computer vision and NLP tasks, such improvements have not yet been observed in ranking for information retrieval. The reason may be the complexity of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Mostafa Dehghani , Hamed Zamani , Aliaksei Severyn , Jaap Kamps , W. Bruce Croft

Community Question Answering is the field of computational linguistics that deals with problems derived from the questions and answers posted to websites such as Quora or Stack Overflow. Among some of these problems we find the issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Lucas Valentin

The core challenge in numerous real-world applications is to match an inquiry to the best document from a mutable and finite set of candidates. Existing industry solutions, especially latency-constrained services, often rely on similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Xiaofeng Zhu , Thomas Lin , Vishal Anand , Matthew Calderwood , Eric Clausen-Brown , Gord Lueck , Wen-wai Yim , Cheng Wu
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