Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
9th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2018, Avignon, France, September 10-14, 2018, Proceedings
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Conversational search is a difficult task as it aims at retrieving documents based not only on the current user query but also on the full conversation history. Most of the previous methods have focused on a m...
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Grounding human-machine conversation in a document is an effective way to improve the performance of retrieval-based chatbots. However, only a part of the document content may be relevant to help select the ap...
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Human–computer conversation is an active research topic in natural language processing. One of the representative methods to build conversation systems uses the sequence-to-sequence (Seq2seq) model through neu...
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Recently, many neural retrieval models have been proposed and shown competitive results. In particular, interaction-based models have shown superior performance to traditional models in a number of studies. Ho...
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Mining opinion is essential for consistency and persona of a chatbot. However, mining existing opinions suffers from data sparsity. Toward a given entity, we cannot always find a proper sentence that expresses...
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Much progress has been made recently on text classification with methods based on neural networks. In particular, models using attention mechanism such as BERT have shown to have the capability of capturing th...
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Query understanding bridges the gap and establishes a communication channel between the searcher and the search engine. An important challenge in question understanding is the enhancement of user interaction w...
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Human conversations are often embedded with emotions. To simulate human conversations, the response generated by a chatbot not only has to be topically relevant to the post, but should also carry an appropriat...
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9th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2018, Avignon, France, September 10-14, 2018, Proceedings
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Query suggestion helps search users to efficiently express their information needs and has attracted many studies. Among the different kinds of factors that help improve query suggestion performance, user beha...
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User interactions in Web search, in particular, clicks, provide valuable hints on document relevance; but the signals are very noisy. In order to better understand user click behaviors and to infer the implied...
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MC2 CLEF 2017 lab deals with how cultural context of a microblog affects its social impact at large. This involves microblog search, classification, filtering, language recognition, localization, entity extrac...
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Users often issue all kinds of queries to look for the same target due to the intrinsic ambiguity and flexibility of natural languages. Some previous work clusters queries based on co-clicks; however, the inte...
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In this paper we address the difficulty of clip** articles from mobile apps. We propose a service called UniClip that allows a user to save the full content of an article by snap** a screenshot part of it....
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Word embedding has been used in many NLP tasks and showed some capability to capture semantic features. It has also been used in several recent studies in IR. However, word embeddings trained in unsupervised ...
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Concepts have been extensively used in biomedical information retrieval (BIR); but the experimental results have often showed limited or no improvement compared to a traditional bag-of-words method. In this pa...
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Diversifying query expansion that leverages multiple resources has demonstrated promising results in the task of search result diversification (SRD) on several benchmark datasets. In existing studies, however,...
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The application of word sense disambiguation (WSD) techniques to information retrieval (IR) has yet to provide convincing retrieval results. Major obstacles to effective WSD in IR include coverage and granular...
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