no code implementations • 6 Jul 2023 • Helia Hashemi, Yong Zhuang, Sachith Sri Ram Kothur, Srivas Prasad, Edgar Meij, W. Bruce Croft
In information retrieval (IR), domain adaptation is the process of adapting a retrieval model to a new domain whose data distribution is different from the source domain.
no code implementations • 17 Jun 2021 • Rosie Jones, Hamed Zamani, Markus Schedl, Ching-Wei Chen, Sravana Reddy, Ann Clifton, Jussi Karlgren, Helia Hashemi, Aasish Pappu, Zahra Nazari, Longqi Yang, Oguz Semerci, Hugues Bouchard, Ben Carterette
Podcasts are spoken documents across a wide-range of genres and styles, with growing listenership across the world, and a rapidly lowering barrier to entry for both listeners and creators.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2020 • Helia Hashemi, Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft
Asking clarifying questions in response to ambiguous or faceted queries has been recognized as a useful technique for various information retrieval systems, especially conversational search systems with limited bandwidth interfaces.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2019 • Helia Hashemi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Zamani, W. Bruce Croft
Despite the importance of the task, the community still feels the significant lack of large-scale non-factoid question answering collections with real questions and comprehensive relevance judgments.