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ICTIR 2021: Virtual Event, Canada
- Faegheh Hasibi, Yi Fang, Akiko Aizawa:
ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11, 2021. ACM 2021, ISBN 978-1-4503-8611-1
Keynote Talk
- Yi Fang:
Session details: Keynote Talk. - Thorsten Joachims:
Fairness and Control of Exposure in Two-sided Markets. 1
Session 1A - Ranking (1)
- Qingyao Ai:
Session details: Session 1A - Ranking (1). - Shuyi Wang, Bing Liu, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon:
Effective and Privacy-preserving Federated Online Learning to Rank. 3-12 - Michael Völske, Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Fröbe, Benno Stein, Jaspreet Singh, Matthias Hagen, Avishek Anand:
Towards Axiomatic Explanations for Neural Ranking Models. 13-22 - Lequn Wang, Thorsten Joachims:
User Fairness, Item Fairness, and Diversity for Rankings in Two-Sided Markets. 23-41 - Soumyajit Gupta, Gurpreet Singh, Anubrata Das, Matthew Lease:
Pareto Solutions vs Dataset Optima: Concepts and Methods for Optimizing Competing Objectives with Constraints in Retrieval. 43-52
Session 1B - User Interaction
- Fabio Crestani:
Session details: Session 1B - User Interaction. - Nirmal Roy, Arthur Câmara, David Maxwell, Claudia Hauff:
Incorporating Widget Positioning in Interaction Models of Search Behaviour. 53-62 - Sara Salimzadeh, David Maxwell, Claudia Hauff:
The Impact of Entity Cards on Learning-Oriented Search Tasks. 63-72 - Ayah Soufan, Ian Ruthven, Leif Azzopardi:
Untangling the Concept of Task in Information Seeking and Retrieval. 73-81 - Shawon Sarkar, Chirag Shah:
An Integrated Model of Task, Information Needs, Sources and Uncertainty to Design Task-Aware Search Systems. 83-92
Session 1C - Content Analysis
- Makoto P. Kato:
Session details: Session 1C - Content Analysis. - Amal Htait, Leif Azzopardi:
Sentiment Intensity Prediction using Neural Word Embeddings. 93-102 - Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Sabrina Sauer, Maarten de Rijke:
News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation. 103-112 - Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, Dorota Glowacka:
Can Language Models Identify Wikipedia Articles with Readability and Style Issues? 113-117 - Zhiyuan Peng, Behnoush Abdollahi, Min Xie, Yi Fang:
Multi-label Classification of Short Texts with Label Correlated Recurrent Neural Networks. 119-122 - Xiao Han, Yuqi Liu, Jimmy Lin:
The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work: (Pseudo-)Relevance Feedback via Text Classification. 123-129
Session 2A - Ranking (2)
- Djoerd Hiemstra:
Session details: Session 2A - Ranking (2). - Honglei Zhuang, Zhen Qin, Shuguang Han, Xuanhui Wang, Michael Bendersky, Marc Najork:
Ensemble Distillation for BERT-Based Ranking Models. 131-136 - Catherine Chavula, Hussein Suleman:
Ranking by Language Similarity for Resource Scarce Southern Bantu Languages. 137-147 - Zhichao Xu, Hansi Zeng, Qingyao Ai:
Understanding the Effectiveness of Reviews in E-commerce Top-N Recommendation. 149-155
Session 2B - Conversational Search
- Hamed Zamani:
Session details: Session 2B - Conversational Search. - Keping Bi, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft:
Asking Clarifying Questions Based on Negative Feedback in Conversational Search. 157-166 - Ivan Sekulic, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Fabio Crestani:
Towards Facet-Driven Generation of Clarifying Questions for Conversational Search. 167-175 - Dipasree Pal, Debasis Ganguly:
Effective Query Formulation in Conversation Contextualization: A Query Specificity-based Approach. 177-183
Session 3A - Queries
- Guido Zuccon:
Session details: Session 3A - Queries. - Oleg Lesota, Navid Rekabsaz, Daniel Cohen, Klaus Antonius Grasserbauer, Carsten Eickhoff, Markus Schedl:
A Modern Perspective on Query Likelihood with Deep Generative Retrieval Models. 185-195 - Joel Mackenzie, Alistair Moffat:
Modality Effects When Simulating User Querying Tasks. 197-201 - Jaspreet Singh, Megha Khosla, Zhenye Wang, Avishek Anand:
Extracting per Query Valid Explanations for Blackbox Learning-to-Rank Models. 203-210 - Eilon Sheetrit, Yaroslav Fyodorov, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurland:
Recommending Search Queries in Documents Using Inter N-Gram Similarities. 211-220
Session 3B - Evaluation
- Mohammad Aliannejadi:
Session details: Session 3B - Evaluation. - Kojiro Iizuka, Yoshifumi Seki, Makoto P. Kato:
Decomposition and Interleaving for Variance Reduction of Post-click Metrics. 221-230 - Leif Azzopardi, Joel Mackenzie, Alistair Moffat:
ERR is not C/W/L: Exploring the Relationship Between Expected Reciprocal Rank and Other Metrics. 231-237 - Rikiya Suzuki, Tetsuya Sakai:
A Fast and Exact Randomisation Test for Comparing Two Systems with Paired Data. 239-243 - Julián Urbano, Matteo Corsi, Alan Hanjalic:
How do Metric Score Distributions affect the Type I Error Rate of Statistical Significance Tests in Information Retrieval? 245-250
Session 4A - Question Answering
- Debasis Ganguly:
Session details: Session 4A - Question Answering. - Yinqiong Cai, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng:
A Discriminative Semantic Ranker for Question Retrieval. 251-260 - Peide Zhu, Claudia Hauff:
Evaluating BERT-based Rewards for Question Generation with Reinforcement Learning. 261-270 - Lakshmi Vikraman, Ali Montazeralghaem, Helia Hashemi, W. Bruce Croft, James Allan:
Passage Similarity and Diversification in Non-factoid Question Answering. 271-280 - Sepideh Entezari Maleki, Mahmood Neshati:
A Novel Approach for Mining Team Leaders in Community Question Answering. 281-285
Session 4B - Semantic Retrieval
- Harrie Oosterhuis:
Session details: Session 4B - Semantic Retrieval. - Yizhi Li, Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Zhiyuan Liu:
More Robust Dense Retrieval with Contrastive Dual Learning. 287-296 - Xiao Wang, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, Iadh Ounis:
Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Multiple Representation Dense Retrieval. 297-306 - Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Haiming Liu, Ingo Frommholz:
Semantic Hilbert Space for Interactive Image Retrieval. 307-315 - Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon:
BERT-based Dense Retrievers Require Interpolation with BM25 for Effective Passage Retrieval. 317-324
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