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2024

Conference Publication

FeB4RAG: evaluating federated search in the context of retrieval augmented generation

Wang, Shuai, Khramtsova, Ekaterina, Zhuang, Shengyao and Zuccon, Guido (2024). FeB4RAG: evaluating federated search in the context of retrieval augmented generation. SIGIR '24: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657853

FeB4RAG: evaluating federated search in the context of retrieval augmented generation

2024

Conference Publication

CoLAL: Co-learning active learning for text classification

Le, Linh, Zhao, Genghong, Zhang, Xia, Zuccon, Guido and Demartini, Gianluca (2024). CoLAL: Co-learning active learning for text classification. Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, BC Canada, 20–27 February 2024. Washington, DC United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v38i12.29235

CoLAL: Co-learning active learning for text classification

2024

Conference Publication

How to Forget Clients in Federated Online Learning to Rank?

Wang, Shuyi, Liu, Bing and Zuccon, Guido (2024). How to Forget Clients in Federated Online Learning to Rank?. 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, Scotland, 24 - 28 March 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-56063-7_7

How to Forget Clients in Federated Online Learning to Rank?

2024

Conference Publication

Stochastic Featurization for Active Learning

Le, Linh, Nguyen, Minh-Tien, Tran, Khai Phan, Zhao, Genghong, Xia, Zhang, Zuccon, Guido and Demartini, Gianluca (2024). Stochastic Featurization for Active Learning. Second International Workshop, TAI4H 2024, Jeju, South Korea, 4 August 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-67751-9_5

Stochastic Featurization for Active Learning

2024

Conference Publication

A reproducibility study of goldilocks: just-right tuning of BERT for TAR

Mao, Xinyu, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2024). A reproducibility study of goldilocks: just-right tuning of BERT for TAR. 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 24-28 March 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-56066-8_13

A reproducibility study of goldilocks: just-right tuning of BERT for TAR

2024

Conference Publication

Zero-shot generative large language models for systematic review screening automation

Wang, Shuai, Scells, Harrisen, Zhuang, Shengyao, Potthast, Martin, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2024). Zero-shot generative large language models for systematic review screening automation. 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 24-28 March 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-56027-9_25

Zero-shot generative large language models for systematic review screening automation

2023

Conference Publication

Selecting which dense retriever to use for zero-shot search

Khramtsova, Ekaterina, Zhuang, Shengyao, Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa, Wang, Xi and Zuccon, Guido (2023). Selecting which dense retriever to use for zero-shot search. SIGIR-AP 2023 - Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Beijing, China, 26-28 November 2023. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3624918.3625330

Selecting which dense retriever to use for zero-shot search

2023

Conference Publication

ChatGPT hallucinates when attributing answers

Zuccon, Guido, Koopman, Bevan and Shaik, Razia (2023). ChatGPT hallucinates when attributing answers. SIGIR-AP 2023 - Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Beijing, China, 26 - 28 November 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3624918.3625329

ChatGPT hallucinates when attributing answers

2023

Conference Publication

Typos-aware bottlenecked pre-training for robust dense retrieval

Zhuang, Shengyao, Shou, Linjun, Pei, Jian, Gong, Ming, Ren, Houxing, Zuccon, Guido and Jiang, Daxin (2023). Typos-aware bottlenecked pre-training for robust dense retrieval. SIGIR-AP '23: Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Beijing, China, 26 - 28 November 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3624918.3625324

Typos-aware bottlenecked pre-training for robust dense retrieval

2023

Conference Publication

Annotating data for fine-tuning a neural ranker? Current active learning strategies are not better than random selection

Althammer, Sophia, Zuccon, Guido, Hofstätter, Sebastian, Verberne, Suzan and Hanbury, Allan (2023). Annotating data for fine-tuning a neural ranker? Current active learning strategies are not better than random selection. SIGIR-AP 2023 - Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Beijing, China, 26 - 28 November 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3624918.3625333

Annotating data for fine-tuning a neural ranker? Current active learning strategies are not better than random selection

2023

Conference Publication

Generating natural language queries for more effective systematic review screening prioritisation

Wang, Shuai, Scells, Harrisen, Koopman, Bevan, Potthast, Martin and Zuccon, Guido (2023). Generating natural language queries for more effective systematic review screening prioritisation. SIGIR-AP 2023 - Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Beijing, China, 26 - 28 November 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3624918.3625322

Generating natural language queries for more effective systematic review screening prioritisation

2023

Conference Publication

Exploring the representation power of SPLADE models

Mackenzie, Joel, Zhuang, Shengyao and Zuccon, Guido (2023). Exploring the representation power of SPLADE models. ICTIR '23: The 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3578337.3605129

Exploring the representation power of SPLADE models

2023

Conference Publication

Outcome-based evaluation of systematic review automation

Kusa, Wojciech, Zuccon, Guido, Knoth, Petr and Hanbury, Allan (2023). Outcome-based evaluation of systematic review automation. ICTIR '23: The 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3578337.3605135

Outcome-based evaluation of systematic review automation

2023

Conference Publication

Beyond CO2 emissions: the overlooked impact of water consumption of information retrieval models

Zuccon, Guido, Scells, Harrisen and Zhuang, Shengyao (2023). Beyond CO2 emissions: the overlooked impact of water consumption of information retrieval models. ICTIR '23: The 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3578337.3605121

Beyond CO2 emissions: the overlooked impact of water consumption of information retrieval models

2023

Conference Publication

An analysis of untargeted poisoning attack and defense methods for federated online learning to rank systems

Wang, Shuyi and Zuccon, Guido (2023). An analysis of untargeted poisoning attack and defense methods for federated online learning to rank systems. ICTIR '23: The 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3578337.3605117

An analysis of untargeted poisoning attack and defense methods for federated online learning to rank systems

2023

Conference Publication

Augmenting passage representations with query generation for enhanced cross-lingual dense retrieval

Zhuang, Shengyao, Shou, Linjun and Zuccon, Guido (2023). Augmenting passage representations with query generation for enhanced cross-lingual dense retrieval. 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 - 27 July 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591952

Augmenting passage representations with query generation for enhanced cross-lingual dense retrieval

2023

Conference Publication

Balanced topic aware sampling for effective dense retriever: a reproducibility study

Wang, Shuai and Zuccon, Guido (2023). Balanced topic aware sampling for effective dense retriever: a reproducibility study. 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 - 27 July 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591915

Balanced topic aware sampling for effective dense retriever: a reproducibility study

2023

Conference Publication

Can ChatGPT write a good Boolean query for systematic review literature search?

Wang, Shuai, Scells, Harrisen, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2023). Can ChatGPT write a good Boolean query for systematic review literature search?. 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 - 27 July 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591703

Can ChatGPT write a good Boolean query for systematic review literature search?

2023

Conference Publication

Leveraging Semantic Type Dependencies for Clinical Named Entity Recognition

Le, Linh, Zuccon, Guido, Demartini, Gianluca, Zhao, Genghong and Zhang, Xia (2023). Leveraging Semantic Type Dependencies for Clinical Named Entity Recognition. AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC United States, 5-9 November 2022. Bethesda, MD United States: American Medical Informatics Association.

Leveraging Semantic Type Dependencies for Clinical Named Entity Recognition

2023

Conference Publication

A Reproducibility Study of Question Retrieval for Clarifying Questions

Cross, Sebastian, Zuccon, Guido and Mourad, Ahmed (2023). A Reproducibility Study of Question Retrieval for Clarifying Questions. 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Dublin, Ireland, 2-6 April 2023. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_3

A Reproducibility Study of Question Retrieval for Clarifying Questions