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Information Retrieval Reading Group
  Summer 2020


Reading group is meeting each Thursday at 5pm 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
06/04 Relevance, diversity, and fairness Ruoyuan Gao and Chirag Shah: Toward creating a fairer ranking in search engine results Mahmoud F. Sayed
06/11 Context-aware document term weighting Zhuyun Dai and Jamie Callan: Context-Aware Document Term Weighting for Ad-Hoc Search Suraj Nair
06/18 Neural CLIR Hamed Bonab, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar and James Allan: Training Effective Neural CLIR by Bridging the Translation Gap Doug Oard
06/25 No meeting
07/02 Curriculum learning Gustavo Penha and Claudia Hauff: Curriculum Learning Strategies for IR Petra Galuscakova
07/09 Fairness and learning to rank Marco Morik, Ashudeep Singh, Jessica Hong, Thorsten Joachims: Controlling Fairness and Bias in Dynamic Learning-to-Rank Doug Oard
07/16 CLIR and Evaluation Shuo Sun, Suzanna Sia and Kevin Duh: CLIReval: Evaluating Machine Translation as a Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Task Petra Galuscakova
07/23 No meeting
07/30 BERT and Efficiency Omar Khattab and Matei Zaharia: ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT Doug Oard
08/06 Reproducibility Timo Breuer et al.: How to Measure the Reproducibility ofSystem-oriented IR Experiments Mahmoud F. Sayed
08/13 No meeting
08/20 Dense Text Retrieval Lee Xiong, Chenyan Xionget et al.: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Negative ContrastiveLearning for Dense Text Retrieval Suraj Nair

 

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Spring 2020