IR-1346: (2025) Samarinas, C. and Zamani, H., "Distillation and Refinement of Reasoning in Small Language Models for Document Re-ranking," in the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2025), Padua, Italy, July 18, 2025, pp. 430-435 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1345: (2025) Samarinas, C., Krubner, A., Salemi, A., Kim, Y. and Zamani, H., "Beyond Factual Accuracy: Evaluating Coverage of Diverse Factual Information in Long-form Text Generation," in the Findings of The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria, July 27–August 1st, 2025, pp. 13468-13482 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1323: (2024) Samarinas, C., Promthaw, P., Nijasure, A., Zeng, H., Killingback, J. and Zamani, H., "Simulating Task-Oriented Dialogues with State Transition Graphs and Large Language Models," CIIR Technical Report [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1318: (2024) Samarinas, C. and Zamani, H., "ProCIS: A Benchmark for Proactive Retrieval in Conversations," in the Proceedings of The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '24), July 14–18, 2024, Washington D.C., USA, pp. 830-840. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1311: (2023) Samarinas, C., Promthaw, P., Lekhwani, R., Mysore, S., Huang, S., Nijasure, A., Zeng, H. and Zamani, H., "Multi-Modal Augmentation for Large Language Models with Applications to Task-Oriented Dialogues," in the 2nd Proceedings of Alexa Prize TaskBot. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1289: (2022) Hattimare, A., Dharawat, A., Khan, Y., Lien, Y., Samarinas, C., Wei, G., Yang, Y. and Zamani, H., "Maruna Bot: An Extensible Retrieval-Focused Framework for Task-Oriented Dialogues," in Proceedings of Alexa Prize TaskBot (Alexa Prize 2021). [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1282: (2022) Samarinas, C., Zamani, H. and Dharawat, A., "Revisiting Open Domain Query Facet Extraction and Generation," in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICtiR 2022), Madrid, Spain, July 11-12, 2022, pp. 43–50. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]