Accepted Papers

- User Fairness, Item Fairness and Diversity for Rankings in Two-Sided Markets
- Lequn Wang and Thorsten Joachims
- Effective and Privacy-preserving Federated Online Learning to Rank
- Shuyi Wang, Bing Liu, Shengyao Zhuang and Guido Zuccon
- Understanding the Effectiveness of Reviews in E-commerce Top-N Recommendation
- Zhichao Xu, Hansi Zeng and Qingyao Ai
- A Modern Perspective on Query Likelihood with Deep Generative Retrieval Models
- Oleg Lesota, Navid Rekabsaz, Daniel Cohen, Klaus Antonius Grasserbauer, Carsten Eickhoff and Markus Schedl
- A Fast and Exact Randomisation Test for Comparing Two Systems with Paired Data
- Rikiya Suzuki and Tetsuya Sakai
- Incorporating Widget Positioning in Interaction Models of Search Behaviour
- Nirmal Roy, Arthur Barbosa Câmara, David Maxwell and Claudia Hauff
- The Impact of Entity Cards on Learning-Oriented Search Tasks
- Sara Salimzadeh, David Maxwell and Claudia Hauff
- News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation
- Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Sabrina Sauer and Maarten de Rijke
- More Robust Dense Retrieval with Contrastive Dual Learning
- Yizhi Li, Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong and Zhiyuan Liu
- Untangling the Concept of Task in Information Seeking and Retrieval
- Ayah Soufan, Ian Ruthven and Leif Azzopardi
- BERT-based Dense Retrievers Require Interpolation with BM25 for Effective Passage Retrieval
- Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang and Guido Zuccon
- Decomposition and Interleaving for Variance Reduction of Post-click Metrics
- Kojiro Iizuka, Yoshifumi Seki and Makoto Kato
- Recommending Search Queries in Documents Using Inter N-Gram Similarities
- Eilon Sheetrit, Yaroslav Fyodorov, Fiana Raiber and Oren Kurland
- Ensemble Distillation for BERT-Based Ranking Models
- Honglei Zhuang, Zhen Qin, Shuguang Han, Xuanhui Wang, Michael Bendersky and Marc Najork
- Ranking by Language Similarity for Resource Scarce Southern Bantu Languages
- Catherine Chavula and Hussein Suleman
- Sentiment Intensity Prediction using Neural Word Embeddings
- Amal Htait and Leif Azzopardi
- Semantic Hilbert Space for Interactive Image Retrieval
- Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Haiming Liu and Ingo Frommholz
- A Discriminative Semantic Ranker for Question Retrieval
- Yinqiong Cai, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng
- ERR is not C/W/L: Exploring the Relationship Between Expected Reciprocal Rank and Other Metrics
- Leif Azzopardi, Joel Mackenzie and Alistair Moffat
- What's the Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work? Pseudo-Relevance Feedback via Text Classification
- Xiao Han, Yuqi Liu and Jimmy Lin
- Towards Axiomatic Explanations for Neural Ranking Models
- Michael Völske, Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Fröbe, Benno Stein, Jaspreet Singh, Matthias Hagen and Avishek Anand
- Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Multiple Representation Dense Retrieval
- Xiao Wang, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto and Iadh Ounis
- Effective Query Formulation in Conversation Contextualization:A Query Specificity-based Approach
- Dipasree Pal and Debasis Ganguly
- Asking Clarifying Questions Based on Negative Feedback in Conversational Search
- Keping Bi, Qingyao Ai and W. Bruce Croft
- Evaluating BERT-based Rewards for Question Generation with Reinforcement Learning
- Peide Zhu and Claudia Hauff
- Multi-label Classification of Short Texts with Label CorrelatedRecurrent Neural Networks
- Zhiyuan Peng, Behnoush Abdollahi, Min Xie and Yi Fang
- Can Language Models Identify Wikipedia Articles with Readability and Style Issues?
- Yang Liu, Alan Medlar and Dorota Glowacka
- Solutions vs Dataset Optima: Concepts and Methods for Optimizing Competing Objectives with Constraints in Retrieval
- Soumyajit Gupta, Gurpreet Singh, Anubrata Das and Matthew Lease Pareto
- An Integrated Model of Task, Information Needs, Sources and Uncertainty to Design Task-Aware Search Systems
- Shawon Sarkar and Chirag Shah
- Passage Similarity and Diversification in Non-factoid Question Answering
- Lakshmi Nair Vikraman, Ali Montazeralghaem, Helia Hashemi, W. Bruce Croft and James Allan
- Modality Effects When Simulating User Querying Tasks
- Joel Mackenzie and Alistair Moffat
- Extracting per Query Valid Explanations for Blackbox Learning-to-Rank Models
- Jaspreet Singh, Zhenye Wang, Megha Khosla and Avishek Anand
- Towards Facet-Driven Generation of Clarifying Questions for Conversational Search
- Ivan Sekulic, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Fabio Crestani
- A Novel Approach for Mining Team Leaders in Community Question Answering
- Sepideh Entezari Maleki and Mahmood Neshati
- How do Metric Score Distributions affect the Type I Error Rate of Statistical Significance Tests in Information Retrieval?
- Julián Urbano, Matteo Corsi and Alan Hanjalic