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08/05/2023
Towards Consistency Filtering-Free Unsupervised Learning for Dense Retrieval
Domain transfer is a prevalent challenge in modern neural Information Re...
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05/15/2023
SWAN: A Generic Framework for Auditing Textual Conversational Systems
We present a simple and generic framework for auditing a given textual c...
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05/06/2023
NER-to-MRC: Named-Entity Recognition Completely Solving as Machine Reading Comprehension
Named-entity recognition (NER) detects texts with predefined semantic la...
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11/02/2022
Relevance Assessments for Web Search Evaluation: Should We Randomise or Prioritise the Pooled Documents? (CORRECTED VERSION)
In the context of depth-k pooling for constructing web search test colle...
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10/16/2022
Zero-Shot Learners for Natural Language Understanding via a Unified Multiple Choice Perspective
We propose a new paradigm for zero-shot learners that is format agnostic...
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04/15/2022
On Variants of Root Normalised Order-aware Divergence and a Divergence based on Kendall's Tau
This paper reports on a follow-up study of the work reported in Sakai, w...
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04/01/2022
A Versatile Framework for Evaluating Ranked Lists in terms of Group Fairness and Relevance
We present a simple and versatile framework for evaluating ranked lists ...
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03/30/2022
AxIoU: An Axiomatically Justified Measure for Video Moment Retrieval
Evaluation measures have a crucial impact on the direction of research. ...
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05/11/2021
Scalable Personalised Item Ranking through Parametric Density Estimation
Learning from implicit feedback is challenging because of the difficult ...
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04/18/2021
DCH-2: A Parallel Customer-Helpdesk Dialogue Corpus with Distributions of Annotators' Labels
We introduce a data set called DCH-2, which contains 4,390 real customer...
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10/26/2020
How to Measure the Reproducibility of System-oriented IR Experiments
Replicability and reproducibility of experimental results are primary co...
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02/10/2020
Different Types of Voice User Interface Failures May Cause Different Degrees of Frustration
We report on an investigation into how different types of failures in a ...
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05/06/2019
RSL19BD at DBDC4: Ensemble of Decision Tree-based and LSTM-based Models
RSL19BD (Waseda University Sakai Laboratory) participated in the Fourth ...
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03/27/2019