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Axiomatic information retrieval (IR) seeks a set of principle properties desirable in IR models. These properties when formally expressed provide guidance in the search for better relevance estimation functions. Neural ranking models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Corby Rosset , Bhaskar Mitra , Chenyan Xiong , Nick Craswell , Xia Song , Saurabh Tiwary

This paper addresses the task of legal summarization, which involves distilling complex legal documents into concise, coherent summaries. Current approaches often struggle with content theme deviation and inconsistent writing styles due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 T. Y. S. S. Santosh , Chen Jia , Patrick Goroncy , Matthias Grabmair

Web search provides a promising way for people to obtain information and has been extensively studied. With the surgence of deep learning and large-scale pre-training techniques, various neural information retrieval models are proposed and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yujia Zhou , Jing Yao , Zhicheng Dou , Ledell Wu , Ji-Rong Wen

Many User interactive systems are proposed all methods are trying to implement as a user friendly and various approaches proposed but most of the systems not reached to the use specifications like user friendly systems with user interest,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-12 R. Venkata Ramana Chary , D. Rajya Lakshmi , K. V. N. Sunitha

Many Information Retrieval (IR) models make use of offline statistical techniques to score documents for ranking over a single period, rather than use an online, dynamic system that is responsive to users over time. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Marc Sloan , Jun Wang

Methods for fusing document lists that were retrieved in response to a query often utilize the retrieval scores and/or ranks of documents in the lists. We present a novel fusion approach that is based on using, in addition, information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Anna Khudyak Kozorovitsky , Oren Kurland

With the ever increasing number of filed patent applications every year, the need for effective and efficient systems for managing such tremendous amounts of data becomes inevitably important. Patent Retrieval (PR) is considered the pillar…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Walid Shalaby , Wlodek Zadrozny

Information retrieval (IR) plays a crucial role in locating relevant resources from vast amounts of data, and its applications have evolved from traditional knowledge bases to modern retrieval models (RMs). The emergence of large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jiazhan Feng , Chongyang Tao , Xiubo Geng , Tao Shen , Can Xu , Guodong Long , Dongyan Zhao , Daxin Jiang

We present the Benchmark of Information Retrieval (IR) tasks with Complex Objectives (BIRCO). BIRCO evaluates the ability of IR systems to retrieve documents given multi-faceted user objectives. The benchmark's complexity and compact size…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Xiaoyue Wang , Jianyou Wang , Weili Cao , Kaicheng Wang , Ramamohan Paturi , Leon Bergen

Effective information retrieval (IR) in settings with limited training data, particularly for complex queries, remains a challenging task. This paper introduces IR2, Information Regularization for Information Retrieval, a technique for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jianyou Wang , Kaicheng Wang , Xiaoyue Wang , Weili Cao , Ramamohan Paturi , Leon Bergen

In an era of exponential scientific growth, identifying novel research ideas is crucial and challenging in academia. Despite potential, the lack of an appropriate benchmark dataset hinders the research of novelty detection. More…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yan Liu , Zonglin Yang , Soujanya Poria , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Erik Cambria

Ranking models are the main components of information retrieval systems. Several approaches to ranking are based on traditional machine learning algorithms using a set of hand-crafted features. Recently, researchers have leveraged deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Mohamed Trabelsi , Zhiyu Chen , Brian D. Davison , Jeff Heflin

Question answering system can be seen as the next step in information retrieval, allowing users to pose question in natural language and receive compact answers. For the Question answering system to be successful, research has shown that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Renu Mudgal , Rosy Madaan , A. K. Sharma , Ashutosh Dixit

Successful development of software systems involves efficient navigation among software artifacts. One state-of-practice approach to structure information is to establish trace links between artifacts, a practice that is also enforced by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Markus Borg

Generative models for Information Retrieval, where ranking of documents is viewed as the task of generating a query from a document's language model, were very successful in various IR tasks in the past. However, with the advent of modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Xiaofei Ma , Ramesh Nallapati , Zhiheng Huang , Bing Xiang

Yes, repurposing multiple-choice question-answering (MCQA) models for document reranking is both feasible and valuable. This preliminary work is founded on mathematical parallels between MCQA decision-making and cross-encoder semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jasper Kyle Catapang

The field of scientometrics has shown the power of citation-based clusters for literature analysis, yet this technique has barely been used for information retrieval tasks. This work evaluates the performance of citation based-clusters for…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Juan Pablo Bascur , Suzan Verberne , Nees Jan van Eck , Ludo Waltman

The paper introduces scholarly Information Retrieval (IR) as a further dimension that should be considered in the science modeling debate. The IR use case is seen as a validation model of the adequacy of science models in representing and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Peter Mutschke , Philipp Mayr , Philipp Schaer , York Sure

Scientific innovation is pivotal for humanity, and harnessing large language models (LLMs) to generate research ideas could transform discovery. However, existing LLMs often produce simplistic and repetitive suggestions due to their limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xiang Hu , Hongyu Fu , Jinge Wang , Yifeng Wang , Zhikun Li , Renjun Xu , Yu Lu , Yaochu Jin , Lili Pan , Zhenzhong Lan

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a standard framework for knowledge-intensive NLP tasks, combining large language models (LLMs) with document retrieval from external corpora. Despite its widespread use, most RAG pipelines…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mandeep Rathee , V Venktesh , Sean MacAvaney , Avishek Anand