Several papers co-authored by IRLab-ers have been accepted for publication at The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024):

• Amin Abolghasemi, Zhaochun Ren, Arian Askari, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Maarten de Rijke, and Suzan Verberne. CAUSE: Counterfactual Assessment of User Satisfaction Estimation in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems.
• Mohanna Hoveyda, Arjen P. de Vries, Faegheh Hasibi, and Maarten de Rijke. Real World Conversational Entity Linking Requires More Than Zero-Shots.
• Yibin Lei, Di Wu, Tianyi Zhou, Tao Shen, Yu Cao, Chongyang Tao, Andrew Yates. Meta-Task Prompting Elicits Embeddings from Large Language Models.
• Pengjie Ren, Chengshun Shi, Shiguang Wu, Mengqi Zhang, Zhaochun Ren, Maarten de Rijke, Zhumin Chen, and Jiahuan Pei. Mini-Ensemble Low-Rank Adapters for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning.
• Tao Shen, Guodong Long, Xiubo Geng, Chongyang Tao, Yibin Lei, Tianyi Zhou, Michael Blumenstein, Daxin Jiang. Retrieval-Augmented Retrieval: Large Language Models are Strong Zero-Shot Retrievers.
• Yubao Tang, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng. Bootstrapped Pre-training with Dynamic Identifier Prediction for Generative Retrieval.