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Implicit feedback, such as user clicks, serves as the primary data source for modern recommender systems. However, click interactions inherently contain substantial noise, including accidental clicks, clickbait-induced interactions, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xikai Yang , Yang Wang , Yilin Li , Sebastian Sun

With the increasing popularity of conversational search, how to evaluate the performance of conversational search systems has become an important question in the IR community. Existing works on conversational search evaluation can mainly be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhumin Chu , Qingyao Ai , Zhihong Wang , Yiqun Liu , Yingye Huang , Rui Zhang , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

Users try to articulate their complex information needs during search sessions by reformulating their queries. To make this process more effective, search engines provide related queries to help users in specifying the information need in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mostafa Dehghani , Sascha Rothe , Enrique Alfonseca , Pascal Fleury

It is often noted that single query-item pair relevance training in search does not capture the customer intent. User intent can be better deduced from a series of engagements (Clicks, ATCs, Orders) in a given search session. We propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Navid Mehrdad , Vishal Rathi , Sravanthi Rajanala

Users issue queries to Search Engines, and try to find the desired information in the results produced. They repeat this process if their information need is not met at the first place. It is crucial to identify the important words in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kishaloy Halder , Heng-Tze Cheng , Ellie Ka In Chio , Georgios Roumpos , Tao Wu , Ritesh Agarwal

Session based model is widely used in recommend system. It use the user click sequence as input of a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), and get the output of the RNN network as the vector embedding of the session, and use the inner product of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Qizhi Zhang , Yi Lin , Kangle Wu , Yongliang Li , Anxiang Zeng

Session history is a common way of recording user interacting behaviors throughout a browsing activity with multiple products. For example, if an user clicks a product webpage and then leaves, it might because there are certain features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yuqi Yang , Weiqi Wang , Baixuan Xu , Wei Fan , Qing Zong , Chunkit Chan , Zheye Deng , Xin Liu , Yifan Gao , Changlong Yu , Chen Luo , Yang Li , Zheng Li , Qingyu Yin , Bing Yin , Yangqiu Song

In the information retrieval (IR) domain, evaluation plays a crucial role in optimizing search experiences and supporting diverse user intents. In the recent LLM era, research has been conducted to automate document relevance labels, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mouly Dewan , Jiqun Liu , Chirag Shah

Session-based recommendation predicts users' future interests from previous interactions in a session. Despite the memorizing of historical samples, the request of unlearning, i.e., to remove the effect of certain training samples, also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xin Xin , Liu Yang , Ziqi Zhao , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhaochun Ren

Dialogues are a predominant mode of communication for humans, and it is immensely helpful to have automatically generated summaries of them (e.g., to revise key points discussed in a meeting, to review conversations between customer agents…

In information recommendation, a session refers to a sequence of user actions within a specific time frame. Session-based recommender systems aim to capture short-term preferences and generate relevant recommendations. However, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yongzhi Jin , Kazushi Okamoto , Kei Harada , Atsushi Shibata , Koki Karube

Session data has been widely used for understanding user's behavior in e-commerce. Researchers are trying to leverage session data for different tasks, such as purchase intention prediction, remaining length prediction, recommendation,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zixuan Li , Lizi Liao , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Predicting a user's preference in a short anonymous interaction session instead of long-term history is a challenging problem in the real-life session-based recommendation, e.g., e-commerce and media stream. Recent research of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ruihong Qiu , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Recent advances in Session-based recommender systems have gained attention due to their potential of providing real-time personalized recommendations with high recall, especially when compared to traditional methods like matrix…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-23 José Antonio Sánchez Rodríguez , Jui-Chieh Wu , Mustafa Khandwawala

Pairing a lexical retriever with a neural re-ranking model has set state-of-the-art performance on large-scale information retrieval datasets. This pipeline covers scenarios like question answering or navigational queries, however, for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tim Baumgärtner , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

Open-domain human-computer conversation has been attracting increasing attention over the past few years. However, there does not exist a standard automatic evaluation metric for open-domain dialog systems; researchers usually resort to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Chongyang Tao , Lili Mou , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Evaluating retrieval performance without editorial relevance judgments is challenging, but instead, user interactions can be used as relevance signals. Living labs offer a way for small-scale platforms to validate information retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Timo Breuer , Norbert Fuhr , Philipp Schaer

Session-based recommendation is gaining increasing attention due to its practical value in predicting the intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. Emerging efforts incorporate various side information to alleviate inherent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Chenliang Li , Bowei He , Hongfei Lin , Chen Ma , Fenglong Ma

Product search serves as an important entry point for online shopping. In contrast to web search, the retrieved results in product search not only need to be relevant but also should satisfy customers' preferences in order to elicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Keping Bi , Choon Hui Teo , Yesh Dattatreya , Vijai Mohan , W. Bruce Croft

Contextualisation has proven to be effective in tailoring \linebreak search results towards the users' information need. While this is true for a basic query search, the usage of contextual session information during exploratory search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Zeljko Carevic , Sascha Schüller , Philipp Mayr , Norbert Fuhr