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Two step document ranking, where the initial retrieval is done by a classical information retrieval method, followed by neural re-ranking model, is the new standard. The best performance is achieved by using transformer-based models as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ivan Sekulić , Amir Soleimani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

Recent studies have proposed leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as information retrievers through query rewriting. However, for challenging corpora, we argue that enhancing queries alone is insufficient for robust semantic matching;…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jingming Liu , Yumeng Li , Wei Shi , Yao-Xiang Ding , Hui Su , Kun Zhou

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards~(RLVR) has become a prominent paradigm to enhance the capabilities (i.e.\ long-context) of Large Language Models~(LLMs). However, it often relies on gold-standard answers or explicit evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yao Xiao , Lei Wang , Yue Deng , Guanzheng Chen , Ziqi Jin , Jung-jae Kim , Xiaoli Li , Roy Ka-wei Lee , Lidong Bing

A common method for extractive multi-document news summarization is to re-formulate it as a single-document summarization problem by concatenating all documents as a single meta-document. However, this method neglects the relative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chao Zhao , Tenghao Huang , Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran , Kathleen McKeown , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Ranking algorithms are fundamental to various online platforms across e-commerce sites to content streaming services. Our research addresses the challenge of adaptively ranking items from a candidate pool for heterogeneous users, a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jingyuan Wang , Perry Dong , Ying Jin , Ruohan Zhan , Zhengyuan Zhou

Information on different fields which are collected by users requires appropriate management and organization to be structured in a standard way and retrieved fast and more easily. Document classification is a conventional method to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Madjid Khalilian , Shiva Hassanzadeh

The search of information in large text repositories has been plagued by the so-called document-query vocabulary gap, i.e. the semantic discordance between the contents in the stored document entities on the one hand and the human query on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Bhawani Selvaretnam , Mohammed Belkhatir

The content ranking problem in a social news website, is typically a function that maximizes a scalar metric of interest like dwell-time. However, like in most real-world applications we are interested in more than one metric---for instance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian , Akshay Soni , Yashar Mehdad , Nikolay Laptev

Eigenfactor.org, a journal evaluation tool which uses an iterative algorithm to weight citations (similar to the PageRank algorithm used for Google) has been proposed as a more valid method for calculating the impact of journals. The…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Philip M. Davis

This study presents a theoretical analysis on the efficiency of interleaving, an efficient online evaluation method for rankings. Although interleaving has already been applied to production systems, the source of its high efficiency has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kojiro Iizuka , Hajime Morita , Makoto P. Kato

Extracting valuable facts or informative summaries from multi-dimensional tables, i.e. insight mining, is an important task in data analysis and business intelligence. However, ranking the importance of insights remains a challenging and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Qi Zeng , Liangchen Luo , Wenhao Huang , Yang Tang

Training and refreshing a web-scale Question Answering (QA) system for a multi-lingual commercial search engine often requires a huge amount of training examples. One principled idea is to mine implicit relevance feedback from user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Linjun Shou , Shining Bo , Feixiang Cheng , Ming Gong , Jian Pei , Daxin Jiang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. However, LLMs still encounter challenges in effectively utilizing the knowledge from retrieved documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mingyan Wu , Zhenghao Liu , Yukun Yan , Xinze Li , Shi Yu , Zheni Zeng , Yu Gu , Ge Yu

Changing an attribute of a text without changing the content usually requires to first disentangle the text into irrelevant attributes and content representations. After that, in the inference phase, the representation of one attribute is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Lei Sha , Thomas Lukasiewicz

We increasingly depend on a variety of data-driven algorithmic systems to assist us in many aspects of life. Search engines and recommender systems amongst others are used as sources of information and to help us in making all sort of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Evaggelia Pitoura , Kostas Stefanidis , Georgia Koutrika

\emph{Semi-Automated Text Classification} (SATC) may be defined as the task of ranking a set $\mathcal{D}$ of automatically labelled textual documents in such a way that, if a human annotator validates (i.e., inspects and corrects where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Giacomo Berardi , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Recently, open-domain question answering (QA) has been combined with machine comprehension models to find answers in a large knowledge source. As open-domain QA requires retrieving relevant documents from text corpora to answer questions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Jinhyuk Lee , Seongjun Yun , Hyunjae Kim , Miyoung Ko , Jaewoo Kang

Open-domain question answering (QA) aims to find the answer to a question from a large collection of documents.Though many models for single-document machine comprehension have achieved strong performance, there is still much room for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mantong Zhou , Zhouxing Shi , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu

Search algorithms and user query relevance have given LLMs the ability to return relevant information, but the effect of content phrasing on ad visibility remains underexplored. We investigate how LLM-based rewriting of advertisements can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Chloe Ho , Ishneet Sukhvinder Singh , Diya Sharma , Tanvi Reddy Anumandla , Michael Lu , Vasu Sharma , Kevin Zhu

In this paper we have modified the existing page ranking mechanism as an advanced Page Rank Algorithm based on Semantics Inlinks Outlinks and Google Analytics. We have used Semantics page ranking to rank pages according to the word searched…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Aritra Banerjee , Shrey Choudhary