In just over a week from today, SIGIR 2021 will start. IRLab members have a number of presentations at the conference. Please come and check out our presentations and talk to us.
- Sunday July 11
- Andrew Yates, Rodrigo Nogueira and Jimmy Lin present a tutorial on Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking: BERT and Beyond
- Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Sabrina Sauer and Maarten de Rijke present their paper News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation as part of ICTIR
- Ivan Sekulic, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Fabio Crestani present their paper Towards Facet-Driven Generation of Clarifying Questions for Conversational Search as part of ICTIR
- Monday July 12
- Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Zamani, Fabio Crestani and Bruce Croft present their paper Context-Aware Target Apps Selection and Recommendation for Enhancing Personal Mobile Assistants
- Jie Zou and Evangelos Kanoulas present their paper Towards Question-Based High-Recall Information Retrieval: Locating the Last Few Relevant Documents for Technology Assisted Reviews
- Jeff Dalton, Iain Mackie and Andrew Yates present their paper How Deep is your Learning: the DL-HARD Annotated Deep Learning Dataset
- Xiangsheng Li, Maarten de Rijke, Yiqun Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma present their paper Investigating Session Search Behavior with Knowledge Graphs
- Yang Fang, Xiang Zhao, Yifan Chen, Weidong Xiao and Maarten de Rijke present their paper Lighter and Better: Low-Rank Decomposed Self-Attention Networks for Next-Item Recommendation
- Tuesday July 13
- Dan Li and Evangelos Kanoulas present their paper When to Stop Reviewing in Technology-Assisted Reviews
- Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Sergey Feldman, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan and Nazli Goharian present their paper Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets
- Chuan Meng, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Tengxiao Xi and Maarten de Rijke present their paper Initiative-Aware Self-Supervised learning for Knowledge-Grounded Conversations
- Pengjie Ren, Zhongkun Liu, Xiaomeng Song, Hongtao Tian, Zhumin Chen, Zhaochun Ren and Maarten de Rijke present their paper Wizard of Search Engine: Access to Information Through Conversations with Search Engines
- Dongdong Li, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Miao Fan, Jun Ma and Maarten de Rijke present their paper Semi-Supervised Variational Reasoning for Medical Dialogue Generation
- Zihan Wang, Hongye Song, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Xiaozhong Liu, Hongsong Li and Maarten de Rijke present their paper Cross-Domain Contract Element Extraction with a Bi-directional Feedback Clause-Element Relation Network
- Ziming Li, Julia Kiseleva and Maarten de Rijke present their paper Improving Response Quality with Backward-reasoning in Open-domain Dialogue Systems
- Wednesday July 14
- Kevin Martin Jose, Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, Jeffrey Dalton and Andrew Yates present their paper DiffIR: Exploring Differences in Ranking Models’ Behavior
- Weiwei Sun, Chuan Meng, Qi Meng, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen and Maarten de Rijke present their paper Conversations Powered by Cross-Lingual Knowledge
- Hongyu Lu, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Maarten de Rijke, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma present their paper Standing in Your Shoes: External Assessments for Personalized Recommender Systems
- Weiwei Sun, Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen and Maarten de Rijke present their paper Simulating User Satisfaction for the Evaluation of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
- Thursday July 15
- Jin Huang, Harrie Oosterhuis, Maarten de Rijke, and Herke van Hoof will present their work on Keeping Dataset Biases out of the Simulation: A Debiased Simulator for Reinforcement Learning based Recommender Systems at The Sim4IR Workshop
- Kenneth Goei, Mariya Hendriksen, and Maarten de Rijke will present their work on Tackling Attribute Fine-grainedness in Cross-modal Fashion Search with Multi-level Features at the SIGIR 2021 Workshop on eCommerce
- Anna Sepliarskaia, Sahika Genc, and Maarten de Rijke will present their work on A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach to Query-Free Interactive Target Item Retrieval at the SIGIR 2021 Workshop on eCommerce
