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2024

Conference Publication

Large language models based stemming for information retrieval: promises, pitfalls and failures

Wang, Shuai, Zhuang, Shengyao and Zuccon, Guido (2024). Large language models based stemming for information retrieval: promises, pitfalls and failures. 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: 10.1145/3626772.3657949

Large language models based stemming for information retrieval: promises, pitfalls and failures

2024

Conference Publication

Revisiting document expansion and filtering for effective first-stage retrieval

Mansour, Watheq, Zhuang, Shengyao, Zuccon, Guido and Mackenzie, Joel (2024). Revisiting document expansion and filtering for effective first-stage retrieval. SIGIR '24, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657850

Revisiting document expansion and filtering for effective first-stage retrieval

2024

Conference Publication

Leveraging LLMs for unsupervised dense retriever ranking

Khramtsova, Ekaterina, Zhuang, Shengyao, Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa and Zuccon, Guido (2024). Leveraging LLMs for unsupervised dense retriever ranking. 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: 10.1145/3626772.3657798

Leveraging LLMs for unsupervised dense retriever ranking

2024

Conference Publication

Dense retrieval with continuous explicit feedback for systematic review screening prioritisation

Mao, Xinyu, Zhuang, Shengyao, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2024). Dense retrieval with continuous explicit feedback for systematic review screening prioritisation. 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: 10.1145/3626772.3657921

Dense retrieval with continuous explicit feedback for systematic review screening prioritisation

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

A setwise approach for effective and highly efficient zero-shot ranking with large language models

Zhuang, Shengyao, Zhuang, Honglei, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2024). A setwise approach for effective and highly efficient zero-shot ranking with large language models. SIGIR ’24, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657813

A setwise approach for effective and highly efficient zero-shot ranking with large language models

2024

Conference Publication

Evaluating generative ad hoc information retrieval

Gienapp, Lukas, Scells, Harrisen, Deckers, Niklas, Bevendorff, Janek, Wang, Shuai, Kiesel, Johannes, Syed, Shahbaz, Fröbe, Maik, Zuccon, Guido, Stein, Benno, Hagen, Matthias and Potthast, Martin (2024). Evaluating generative ad hoc information retrieval. SIGIR '24: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieva, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657849

Evaluating generative ad hoc information retrieval

2024

Conference Publication

Embark on DenseQuest: a system for selecting the best dense retriever for a custom collection

Khramtsova, Ekaterina, Leelanupab, Teerapong, Zhuang, Shengyao, Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa and Zuccon, Guido (2024). Embark on DenseQuest: a system for selecting the best dense retriever for a custom collection. 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: 10.1145/3626772.3657674

Embark on DenseQuest: a system for selecting the best dense retriever for a custom collection

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

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

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

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