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Information Retrieval Reading Group
  Autumn 2020

Reading group is meeting each Thursday at 12pm online at Zoom (Room ID: 990 4394 5898, for the key ask Petra). For more information, contact Petra. If you would like to get updates regarding the reading group, you can also join the mailing list.

Date  Topic Reading Presenter
09/03 Metrics for user models Alfan Farizki Wicaksono and Alistair Moffat: Metrics, User Models, and Satisfaction Mahmoud F. Sayed
09/10 Conversational search UI Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Evangelos Kanoulas, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke: Conversations with Search Engines Petra Galuscakova
09/17 Metrics effectivness Alistair Moffat, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer: Users Versus Models: What Observation Tells Us About Effectiveness Metrics Jake Bremerman
09/24 Reinforcement learning and query expansion Ali Montazeralghaem, Hamed Zamani, James Allan: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback Suraj Nair
10/01 Conversational agents Stephen Roller et al: Open-Domain Conversational Agents: Current Progress, Open Problems, and Future Directions Xin Qian
10/08 Neural natural language inference Youngwoo Kim, Myungha, James Allan: Explaining Text Matching on Neural Natural Language Inference Petra Galuscakova
10/15 Retrival experiment error Ellen M. Voorhees and Chris Alan Buckley: The effect of topic set size on retrieval experiment error Pedro Rodriguez
10/22 Eye tracking and attention Valeriia Bolotova et al.: Do People and Neural Nets Pay Attention to the Same Words? Studying Eye-tracking Data for Non-factoid QA Evaluation Suraj Nair
10/29 Expected exposure Fernando Diaz, Bhaskar Mitra, Michael D. Ekstrand, Asia J. Biega, Ben Carterette: Evaluating Stochastic Rankings with Expected Exposure Petra Galuscakova
11/5 No session
11/12 No session
11/19 No session
11/26 No session
12/03 Metrics for user models Julian Urbano, Harlley Lima and Alan Hanjalic: Statistical Significance Testing in Information Retrieval:An Empirical Analysis of Type I, Type II and Type III Errors Mahmoud F. Sayed
12/10 Dense Passage Retrieval Yingqi Qu et al: RocketQA: An Optimized Training Approach to Dense Passage Retrievalfor Open-Domain Question Answering Petra Galuscakova
12/17 CLIR Shadi Saleh and Pavel Pecina: Term Selection for Query Expansion in Medical Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval, and Document Translation vs. Query Translation for Cross-LingualInformation Retrieval in the Medical Domain Shadi Saleh

 

Next reading ideas: feel free to add papers!

Previous semesters:
Spring 2020
Summer 2020