IR-1258: (2021) Qu, C., "History Modeling for Conversational Information Retrieval," Doctoral Dissertation, May 2021. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1251: (2021) Qu, C., Zamani, H., Yang, L., Croft, W. B. and Learned-Miller, E., "Passage Retrieval for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering," in Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). Online. July 11-15, 2021, pp. 1753–1757. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1225: (2020) Qu, C., Yang, L., Chen, C., Croft, W. B. , Krishna, K. and Iyyer, M., "Weakly-Supervised Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering," in the Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), Lucca, Tuscany, March 28- April 1, 2021, pp.529-543. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1213: (2020) Qu, C., Yang, L., Chen, C., Croft, W. B. , Iyyer, M. and Qiu, M., "Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering," in Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2020), Xi'an, China, July 25-30, 2020, pp. 539–548. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1210: (2020) Qu, C., Xiong, C., Zhang, Y., Rosset, C., Croft, W. B. and Bennett, P., "Contextual Re-Ranking with Behavior Aware Transformers," in Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2020), Xi'an, China, July 25-30, 2020, pp 1589–1592. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1203: (2019) Yang, L., Qiu, M., Qu, C., Chen, C., Guo, J., Zhang, Y., Croft, W. B. and Chen, H., "IART: Intent-aware Response Ranking with Transformers in Information-seeking Conversation Systems," in the Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 (WWW 2020), Taipei, China, April 20-24, 2020, pp. 2592–2598. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1193: (2019) Qu, C., Yang, L., Qiu, M., Zhang, Y., Chen, C., Croft, W. B. and Iyyer, M., "Attentive History Selection for Conversational Question Answering," in the Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019), Beijing, China, November 03-07, 2019, pp. 1391-1400. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1175: (2019) Qu, C., Yang, L., Qiu, M., Croft, W. B. , Zhang, Y. and Iyyer, M., "BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering," in the Proceedings of to the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), Paris, France. July 21-25, 2019, pp. 1133-1136. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1166: (2019) Yang, L., Hu, J., Qiu, M., Qu, C., Gao, J., Croft, W. B. , Liu, X., Shen, Y. and Liu, J., "A Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Neural Conversation Model," in the Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019), Beijing, China, November 03-07, 2019, pp.1341–1350. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1161: (2019) Qu, C., Yang, L., Croft, W. B. , Scholer, F. and Zhang, Y., "Answer Interaction in Non-factoid Question Answering Systems," in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 19), Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 March, 2019, pp. 249-253. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1159: (2019) Qu, C., Ji, F., Qiu, M., Yang, L., Min, Z., Chen, H., Huang, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Learning to Selectively Transfer: Reinforced Transfer Learning for Deep Text Matching," in the Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019), Melbourne, Australia, 11-15 February 2019, pp. 699-707. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1148: (2018) Qu, C., Yang, L., Croft, W. B. , Zhang, Y., Trippas, J. and Qiu, M., "User Intent Prediction in Information-seeking Conversations," in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 19), Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 March, 2019, pp. 25-33. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1140: (2018) Qu, C., Yang, L., Croft, W. B. , Trippas, J., Zhang, Y. and Qiu, M., "Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations," in the Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '18), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 8-12, 2018, pp. 989-992. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1134: (2018) Yang, L., Qiu, M., Qu, C., Guo, J., Zhang, Y., Croft, W. B. , Huang, J. and Chen, H., "Response Ranking with Deep Matching Networks and External Knowledge in Information-seeking Conversation Systems," in the Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '18) Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 8-12, 2018, pp. 245-254. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]