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We present Mr. TyDi, a multi-lingual benchmark dataset for mono-lingual retrieval in eleven typologically diverse languages, designed to evaluate ranking with learned dense representations. The goal of this resource is to spur research in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xinyu Zhang , Xueguang Ma , Peng Shi , Jimmy Lin

Vector embeddings from pre-trained language models form a core component in Neural Information Retrieval systems across a multitude of knowledge extraction tasks. The paradigm of late interaction, introduced in ColBERT, demonstrates high…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Raj Nath Patel , Sourav Dutta

We propose Latent Terms, a method revealing that models trained for dense retrieval, whether single- or multi-vector, learn representations that can trivially be decomposed into retrieval-ready sparse features. When trained on frozen…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Benjamin Clavié , Sean Lee , Aamir Shakir , Makoto P. Kato

Neural information retrieval systems typically use a cascading pipeline, in which a first-stage model retrieves a candidate set of documents and one or more subsequent stages re-rank this set using contextualized language models such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Antonio Mallia , Omar Khattab , Nicola Tonellotto , Torsten Suel

Text retrieval is a long-standing research topic on information seeking, where a system is required to return relevant information resources to user's queries in natural language. From classic retrieval methods to learning-based ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wayne Xin Zhao , Jing Liu , Ruiyang Ren , Ji-Rong Wen

Neural information retrieval systems excel in high-resource languages but remain underexplored for morphologically rich, lower-resource languages such as Turkish. Dense bi-encoders currently dominate Turkish IR, yet late-interaction models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Özay Ezerceli , Mahmoud El Hussieni , Selva Taş , Reyhan Bayraktar , Fatma Betül Terzioğlu , Yusuf Çelebi , Yağız Asker

Beyond general web-scale search, social network search uniquely enables users to retrieve information and discover potential connections within their social context. We introduce a framework of modernized Facebook Group Scoped Search by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yongye Su , Zeya Zhang , Jane Kou , Cheng Ju , Shubhojeet Sarkar , Yamin Wang , Ji Liu , Shengbo Guo

Literature search questions, such as "Where can I find research on the evaluation of consistency in generated summaries?" pose significant challenges for modern search engines and retrieval systems. These questions often require a deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Anirudh Ajith , Mengzhou Xia , Alexis Chevalier , Tanya Goyal , Danqi Chen , Tianyu Gao

Legal passage retrieval is an important task that assists legal practitioners in the time-intensive process of finding relevant precedents to support legal arguments. This study investigates the task of retrieving legal passages or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Larissa Mori , Carlos Sousa de Oliveira , Yuehwern Yih , Mario Ventresca

Hybrid search, the integration of lexical and semantic retrieval, has become a cornerstone of modern information retrieval systems, driven by demanding applications like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The architectural design space…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mengzhao Wang , Boyu Tan , Yunjun Gao , Hai Jin , Yingfeng Zhang , Xiangyu Ke , Xiaoliang Xu , Yifan Zhu

Expansion-enhanced sparse lexical representation improves information retrieval (IR) by minimizing vocabulary mismatch problems during lexical matching. In this paper, we explore the potential of jointly learning dense semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Biplob Biswas , Rajiv Ramnath

Current pre-trained language model approaches to information retrieval can be broadly divided into two categories: sparse retrievers (to which belong also non-neural approaches such as bag-of-words methods, e.g., BM25) and dense retrievers.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Hang Li , Shuai Wang , Shengyao Zhuang , Ahmed Mourad , Xueguang Ma , Jimmy Lin , Guido Zuccon

A large amount of data is present on the web. It contains huge number of web pages and to find suitable information from them is very cumbersome task. There is need to organize data in formal manner so that user can easily access and use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Gagandeep Singh , Vishal Jain

Transformer-based models such as BERT and E5 have significantly advanced text embedding by capturing rich contextual representations. However, many complex real-world queries require sophisticated reasoning to retrieve relevant documents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuxiang Liu , Tian Wang , Gourab Kundu , Tianyu Cao , Guang Cheng , Zhen Ge , Jianshu Chen , Qingjun Cui , Trishul Chilimbi

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a spur in the medical research literature. With new research advances in understanding the virus, there is a need for robust text mining tools which can process, extract and present answers from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Souvik Das , Sougata Saha , Rohini K. Srihari

The continuous increasing in the amount of the published and stored information requires a special Information Retrieval (IR) frameworks to search and get information accurately and speedily. Currently, keywords-based techniques are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Eissa M. Alshari

Efficient document retrieval heavily relies on the technique of semantic hashing, which learns a binary code for every document and employs Hamming distance to evaluate document distances. However, existing semantic hashing methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zexuan Qiu , Qinliang Su , Jianxing Yu , Shijing Si

Recent research has shown that mixed-initiative conversational search, based on the interaction between users and computers to clarify and improve a query, provides enormous advantages. Nonetheless, incorporating additional information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Oleg Borisov , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

We present a novel end-to-end language model for joint retrieval and classification, unifying the strengths of bi- and cross- encoders into a single language model via a coarse-to-fine memory matching search procedure for learning and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Allen Schmaltz , Andrew Beam

Document screening is a central task within Evidenced Based Medicine, which is a clinical discipline that supplements scientific proof to back medical decisions. Given the recent advances in DL (Deep Learning) methods applied to Information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Alexandros Ioannidis