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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

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

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

Journal Article

Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024

MacAvaney, Sean, Roegiest, Adam, Lipani, Aldo, Parry, Andrew, Engelmann, Björn Engelmann, Kreutz, Christin Katharina, Meng, Chuan, Frayling, Erlend, Yang, Eugene, Schlatt, Ferdinand, Faggioli, Guglielmo, Scells, Harrisen, Atanassova, Iana, Friese, Jana, Bevendorff, Janek, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier, Trippas, Johanne, Pathak, Kanaad, Dhole, Kaustubh, Azzopardi, Leif, Fröbe, Maik, Bertin, Marc, Prasad, Nishchal, Zerhoudi, Saber, Wang, Shuai, Chatterjee, Shubham, Jaenich, Thomas, Kruschwitz, Udo, Wang, Xi and Long, Zijun (2024). Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024. ACM SIGIR Forum, 58 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1145/3687273.3687287

Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024

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

BERGEN: a benchmarking library for retrieval-augmented generation

Rau, David, Déjean, Hervé, Chirkova, Nadezhda, Formal, Thibault, Wang, Shuai, Clinchant, Stéphane and Nikoulina, Vassilina (2024). BERGEN: a benchmarking library for retrieval-augmented generation. 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Miami, FL, United States, 12 - 16 November 2024. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.449

BERGEN: a benchmarking library for retrieval-augmented generation

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

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

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

MeSH suggester: a library and system for MeSH term suggestion for systematic review Boolean query construction

Wang, Shuai, Li, Hang and Zuccon, Guido (2023). MeSH suggester: a library and system for MeSH term suggestion for systematic review Boolean query construction. Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Singapore, Singapore, 27 February - 3 March 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3539597.3573025

MeSH suggester: a library and system for MeSH term suggestion for systematic review Boolean query construction

2022

Conference Publication

Neural rankers for effective screening prioritisation in medical systematic review literature search

Wang, Shuai, Scells, Harrisen, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2022). Neural rankers for effective screening prioritisation in medical systematic review literature search. 26th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 15-16 December 2022. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3572960.3572980

Neural rankers for effective screening prioritisation in medical systematic review literature search

2022

Journal Article

Automated MeSH term suggestion for effective query formulation in systematic reviews literature search

Wang, Shuai, Scells, Harrisen, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2022). Automated MeSH term suggestion for effective query formulation in systematic reviews literature search. Intelligent Systems with Applications, 16 200141, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.iswa.2022.200141

Automated MeSH term suggestion for effective query formulation in systematic reviews literature search

2022

Conference Publication

From little things big things grow: a collection with seed studies for medical systematic review literature search

Wang, Shuai, Scells, Harrisen, Clark, Justin, Koopman, Bevan and Zuccon, Guido (2022). From little things big things grow: a collection with seed studies for medical systematic review literature search. SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 July 2022. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531748

From little things big things grow: a collection with seed studies for medical systematic review literature search

2022

Conference Publication

To Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, dense and sparse retrievers

Li, Hang, Wang, Shuai, Zhuang, Shengyao, Mourad, Ahmed, Ma, Xueguang, Lin, Jimmy and Zuccon, Guido (2022). To Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, dense and sparse retrievers. SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 July 2022. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531884

To Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, dense and sparse retrievers

2022

Conference Publication

Seed-driven document ranking for systematic reviews: a reproducibility study

Wang, Shuai, Scells, Harrisen, Mourad, Ahmed and Zuccon, Guido (2022). Seed-driven document ranking for systematic reviews: a reproducibility study. 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, 10–14 April 2022. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_46

Seed-driven document ranking for systematic reviews: a reproducibility study

2021

Conference Publication

MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search

Wang, Shuai, Li, Hang, Scells, Harrisen, Locke, Daniel and Zuccon, Guido (2021). MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search. Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 9 December 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3503516.3503530

MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search

2021

Conference Publication

BERT-based Dense Retrievers Require Interpolation with BM25 for Effective Passage Retrieval

Wang, Shuai, Zhuang, Shengyao and Zuccon, Guido (2021). BERT-based Dense Retrievers Require Interpolation with BM25 for Effective Passage Retrieval. The ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Canada, 11 July 2021. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi: 10.1145/3471158.3472233

BERT-based Dense Retrievers Require Interpolation with BM25 for Effective Passage Retrieval