IR-1333: (2024) Yu, P., "Leveraging Explanations for Information Retrieval Systems Under Data Scarcity," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1326: (2024) Huang, Z., Yu, P., Ravfogel, S. and Allan, J., "Language Concept Erasure for Language-invariant Dense Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024), Association for Computational Linguistics, Miami, Florida, November 12 –16, 2024, pp. 13261-13273. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1313: (2023) Huang, Z., Yu, P. and Allan, J., "UMass at TREC 2023 NeuCLIR Track," in Notebook Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2023), Rockville MD, USA, November 14-17, 2023. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1310: (2023) Yu, P., Rahimi, N., Huang, Z. and Allan, J., "Search Result Diversification Using Query Aspects as Bottlenecks," in the Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’23), October 21–25, 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, pp. 3040-3051. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1295: (2022) Huang, Z., Yu, P. and Allan, J., "Improving Cross-lingual Information Retrieval on Low-Resource Languages via Optimal Transport Distillation," in the Proceedings of Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’23), Singapore, February 27-March 3, 2023, pp. 1048-1056. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1276: (2022) Yu, P., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Towards Explainable Search Results: A Listwise Explanation Generator," in Proceedings of The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2022, pp. 669–680. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1267: (2021) Yu, P., "Cross-lingual Language Model Pretraining for Retrieval," in Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW ’21), Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19–23, 2021, pp. 1029-1039. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1230: (2020) Huang, Z., Rahimi, N., Yu, P., Shang, J. and Allan, J., "AutoName: A Corpus-Based Set Naming Framework ," in the Proceedings of The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 21), July 11-15, 2021, pp. 2101–2105. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1224: (2020) Yu, P. and Allan, J., "A Study of Neural Matching Models for Cross-lingual IR," in Proceedings of the 43nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’20), July 21–25, 2020, Xi’an, China. pp. 1637-1640. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1211: (2020) Yu, P., Rahimi, N., Huang, Z. and Allan, J., "Learning to Rank Entities for Set Expansion from Unstructured Data ," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2020), Stavanger, Norway, September 14-18, 2020, pp. 21-28. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1177: (2019) Yu, P., Huang, Z., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Corpus-based Set Expansion with Lexical Features and Distributed Representations," in the Proceedings of The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019, pp. 1153-1156. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]