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Talent search is a cornerstone of modern recruitment systems, yet existing approaches often struggle to capture nuanced job-specific preferences, model recruiter behavior at a fine-grained level, and mitigate noise from subjective human…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jihang Li , Bing Xu , Zulong Chen , Chuanfei Xu , Minping Chen , Suyu Liu , Ying Zhou , Zeyi Wen

Looking into the growth of information in the web it is a very tedious process of getting the exact information the user is looking for. Many search engines generate user profile related data listing. This paper involves one such process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-12 L. K. Joshila Grace , V. Maheswari , Dhinaharan Nagamalai

Based on the success of recommender systems in e-commerce, there is growing interest in their use in matching markets (e.g., labor). While this holds potential for improving market fluidity and fairness, we show in this paper that naively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Yi Su , Magd Bayoumi , Thorsten Joachims

E-Commerce (E-Com) search is an emerging important new application of information retrieval. Learning to Rank (LETOR) is a general effective strategy for optimizing search engines, and is thus also a key technology for E-Com search. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu , Parikshit Sondhi , ChengXiang Zhai

This study investigates the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for political stance detection in informal online discourse, where language is often sarcastic, ambiguous, and context-dependent. We explore whether providing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Arman Engin Sucu , Yixiang Zhou , Mario A. Nascimento , Tony Mullen

Major search engines deploy personalized Web results to enhance users' experience, by showing them data supposed to be relevant to their interests. Even if this process may bring benefits to users while browsing, it also raises concerns on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Van Tien Hoang , Angelo Spognardi , Francesco Tiezzi , Marinella Petrocchi , Rocco De Nicola

Ranking is at the core of many artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including search engines, recommender systems, etc. Modern ranking systems are often constructed with learning-to-rank (LTR) models built from user behavior signals.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tao Yang , Cuize Han , Chen Luo , Parth Gupta , Jeff M. Phillips , Qingyao Ai

As information retrieval systems continue to evolve, accurate evaluation and benchmarking of these systems become pivotal. Web search datasets, such as MS MARCO, primarily provide short keyword queries without accompanying intent or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Abhijit Anand , Jurek Leonhardt , V Venktesh , Avishek Anand

As the use of web is increasing more day by day, the web users get easily lost in the web's rich hyper structure. The main aim of the owner of the website is to give the relevant information according their needs to the users. We explained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Laxmi Choudhary , Bhawani Shankar Burdak

Due to the advantages in the cost-efficiency and reproducibility, user simulation has become a promising solution to the user-centric evaluation of information retrieval systems. Nonetheless, accurately simulating user search behaviors has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Erhan Zhang , Xingzhu Wang , Peiyuan Gong , Yankai Lin , Jiaxin Mao

Customer shopping behavioral features are core to product search ranking models in eCommerce. In this paper, we investigate the effect of lookback time windows when aggregating these features at the (query, product) level over history. By…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Qi Liu , Atul Singh , Jingbo Liu , Cun Mu , Zheng Yan , Jan Pedersen

Recommendations can greatly benefit from good representations of the user state at recommendation time. Recent approaches that leverage Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for session-based recommendations have shown that Deep Learning models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Elena Smirnova , Flavian Vasile

Since sequential information plays an important role in modeling user behaviors, various sequential recommendation methods have been proposed. Methods based on Markov assumption are widely-used, but independently combine several most recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Diyi Wang , Zhaokang Li , Liang Wang

Ranking systems form the basis for online search engines and recommendation services. They process large collections of items, for instance web pages or e-commerce products, and present the user with a small ordered selection. The goal of a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Harrie Oosterhuis

Recent advances in large language models have highlighted their potential for personalized recommendation, where accurately capturing user preferences remains a key challenge. Leveraging their strong reasoning and generalization…

Recommender systems (RS) play a core role in various domains, including business analytics, helping users and companies make appropriate decisions. To optimize service quality, related technologies focus on constructing user profiles by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hui Zhang , Jiayu Liu

Learning-to-rank (LTR) algorithms are ubiquitous and necessary to explore the extensive catalogs of media providers. To avoid the user examining all the results, its preferences are used to provide a subset of relatively small size. The…

Email service providers have employed many email classification and prioritization systems over the last decade to improve their services. In order to assist email services, we propose a personalized email community detection method to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Waqas Nawaz , Yongkoo Han , Kifayat-Ullah Khan , Young-Koo Lee

Personalization plays a critical role in numerous language tasks and applications, since users with the same requirements may prefer diverse outputs based on their individual interests. This has led to the development of various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jiongnan Liu , Yutao Zhu , Shuting Wang , Xiaochi Wei , Erxue Min , Yu Lu , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Zhicheng Dou

Humans use social context to specify preferences over behaviors, i.e. their reward functions. Yet, algorithms for inferring reward models from preference data do not take this social learning view into account. Inspired by pragmatic human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Andi Peng , Yuying Sun , Tianmin Shu , David Abel