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Retrieval is a crucial stage in web search that identifies a small set of query-relevant candidates from a billion-scale corpus. Discovering more semantically-related candidates in the retrieval stage is very promising to expose more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yiding Liu , Guan Huang , Jiaxiang Liu , Weixue Lu , Suqi Cheng , Yukun Li , Daiting Shi , Shuaiqiang Wang , Zhicong Cheng , Dawei Yin

Exploratory search aims to guide users through a corpus rather than pinpointing exact information. We propose an exploratory search system based on hierarchical clusters and document summaries using sentence embeddings. With sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Austin Silveria

Due to an information explosion on the internet, there is a need for the development of aggregated search systems that can boost the retrieval and management of content in various formats. To further improve the clustering of Arabic text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Sara Saad Soliman , Ahmed Younes , Islam Elkabani , Ashraf Elsayed

Our objective is video retrieval based on natural language queries. In addition, we consider the analogous problem of retrieving sentences or generating descriptions given an input video. Recent work has addressed the problem by embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkilä , Naokazu Yokoya

Expert finding is an important task in both industry and academia. It is challenging to rank candidates with appropriate expertise for various queries. In addition, different types of objects interact with one another, which naturally forms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Huan Gui , Qi Zhu , Liyuan Liu , Aston Zhang , Jiawei Han

Most text retrievers generate \emph{one} query vector to retrieve relevant documents. Yet, the conditional distribution of relevant documents for the query may be multimodal, e.g., representing different interpretations of the query. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hung-Ting Chen , Xiang Liu , Shauli Ravfogel , Eunsol Choi

Expert search aims to find and rank experts based on a user's query. In academia, retrieving experts is an efficient way to navigate through a large amount of academic knowledge. Here, we study how different distributed representations of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Mark Berger , Jakub Zavrel , Paul Groth

Vector retrieval systems exhibit significant performance variance across queries due to heterogeneous embedding quality. We propose a lightweight framework for predicting retrieval performance at the query level by combining quantization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Y. Du

Network embedding methodologies, which learn a distributed vector representation for each vertex in a network, have attracted considerable interest in recent years. Existing works have demonstrated that vertex representation learned through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Vachik S. Dave , Baichuan Zhang , Pin-Yu Chen , Mohammad Al Hasan

Over the past 10 years, many recommendation techniques have been based on embedding users and items in latent vector spaces, where the inner product of a (user,item) pair of vectors represents the predicted affinity of the user to the item.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Sonya Liberman , Shaked Bar , Raphael Vannerom , Danny Rosenstein , Ronny Lempel

Representation learning is a fundamental building block for analyzing entities in a database. While the existing embedding learning methods are effective in various data mining problems, their applicability is often limited because these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Dhruv Gelda , Zhongfang Zhuang , Yan Zheng , Liang Gou , Wei Zhang

A number of recent studies have started to investigate how speech systems can be trained on untranscribed speech by leveraging accompanying images at training time. Examples of tasks include keyword prediction and within- and across-mode…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Herman Kamper , Aristotelis Anastassiou , Karen Livescu

We explore the effectiveness of an LLM-guided query refinement paradigm for extending the usability of embedding models to challenging zero-shot search and classification tasks. Our approach refines the embedding representation of a user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ariel Gera , Shir Ashury-Tahan , Gal Bloch , Ohad Eytan , Assaf Toledo

Neural embedding approaches have become a staple in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, and more recently, graph analytics. Given the pervasive nature of these algorithms, the natural question becomes how to exploit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Alexander Kalinowski , Yuan An

Similarity query is the family of queries based on some similarity metrics. Unlike the traditional database queries which are mostly based on value equality, similarity queries aim to find targets "similar enough to" the given data objects,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifan Wang

Ad-hoc search calls for the selection of appropriate answers from a massive-scale corpus. Nowadays, the embedding-based retrieval (EBR) becomes a promising solution, where deep learning based document representation and ANN search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Shitao Xiao , Zheng Liu , Weihao Han , Jianjin Zhang , Yingxia Shao , Defu Lian , Chaozhuo Li , Hao Sun , Denvy Deng , Liangjie Zhang , Qi Zhang , Xing Xie

Sponsored search represents a major source of revenue for web search engines. This popular advertising model brings a unique possibility for advertisers to target users' immediate intent communicated through a search query, usually by…

Keyword-based searches are today's standard in digital libraries. Yet, complex retrieval scenarios like in scientific knowledge bases, need more sophisticated access paths. Although each document somewhat contributes to a domain's body of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hermann Kroll , Pascal Sackhoff , Timo Breuer , Ralf Schenkel , Wolf-Tilo Balke

Rapid advances in GPU hardware and multiple areas of Deep Learning open up a new opportunity for billion-scale information retrieval with exhaustive search. Building on top of the powerful concept of semantic learning, this paper proposes a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Ying Shan , Jian Jiao , Jie Zhu , JC Mao

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