Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval最新文献

Mathematical Information Retrieval: Search and Question Answering

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1561/1500000095

Richard Zanibbi, Behrooz Mansouri, Anurag Agarwal

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Information Discovery in E-commerce 电子商务中的信息发现

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1561/1500000097

Zhaochun Ren, Xiangnan He, Dawei Yin, Maarten de Rijke

{"title":"Information Discovery in E-commerce","authors":"Zhaochun Ren, Xiangnan He, Dawei Yin, Maarten de Rijke","doi":"10.1561/1500000097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/1500000097","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic commerce, or e-commerce, is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data online. E-commerce platforms come in many kinds, with global players such as Amazon, Airbnb, Alibaba, Booking.com, eBay, and JD.com and platforms targeting specific geographic regions such as Bol.com and Flipkart.com. Information retrieval has a natural role to play in e-commerce, especially in connecting people to goods and services. Information discovery in e-commerce concerns different types of search (e.g., exploratory search vs. lookup tasks), recommender systems, and natural language processing in e-commerce portals. The rise in popularity of e-commerce sites has made research on information discovery in e-commerce an increasingly active research area. This is witnessed by an increase in publications and dedicated workshops in this space. Methods for information discovery in e-commerce largely focus on improving the effectiveness of e-commerce search and recommender systems, on enriching and using knowledge graphs to support e-commerce, and on developing innovative question answering and bot-based solutions that help to connect people to goods and services. In this survey, an overview is given of the fundamental infrastructure, algorithms, and technical solutions for information discovery in e-commerce. The topics covered include user behavior and profiling, search, recommendation, and language technology in e-commerce.","PeriodicalId":48829,"journal":{"name":"Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142904784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Fairness in Search Systems 搜索系统的公平性

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI: 10.1561/1500000101

Yi Fang, Ashudeep Singh, Zhiqiang Tao

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User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems 评估信息获取系统的用户模拟

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1561/1500000098

Krisztian Balog, ChengXiang Zhai

{"title":"User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems","authors":"Krisztian Balog, ChengXiang Zhai","doi":"10.1561/1500000098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/1500000098","url":null,"abstract":"Information access systems, such as search engines, recommender\u0000systems, and conversational assistants, have become\u0000integral to our daily lives as they help us satisfy our information\u0000needs. However, evaluating the effectiveness of\u0000these systems presents a long-standing and complex scientific\u0000challenge. This challenge is rooted in the difficulty of\u0000assessing a system’s overall effectiveness in assisting users\u0000to complete tasks through interactive support, and further\u0000exacerbated by the substantial variation in user behaviour\u0000and preferences. To address this challenge, user simulation\u0000emerges as a promising solution.This monograph focuses on providing a thorough understanding\u0000of user simulation techniques designed specifically\u0000for evaluation purposes. We begin with a background of information\u0000access system evaluation and explore the diverse\u0000applications of user simulation. Subsequently, we systematically\u0000review the major research progress in user simulation,\u0000covering both general frameworks for designing user simulators,\u0000utilizing user simulation for evaluation, and specific\u0000models and algorithms for simulating user interactions with\u0000search engines, recommender systems, and conversational\u0000assistants. Realizing that user simulation is an interdisciplinary\u0000research topic, whenever possible, we attempt to\u0000establish connections with related fields, including machine\u0000learning, dialogue systems, user modeling, and economics.\u0000We end the monograph with a broad discussion of important\u0000future research directions, many of which extend beyond the\u0000evaluation of information access systems and are expected\u0000to have broader impact on how to evaluate interactive intelligent\u0000systems in general.","PeriodicalId":48829,"journal":{"name":"Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Multi-hop Question Answering 多跳问题解答

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1561/1500000102

Vaibhav Mavi, Anubhav Jangra, Jatowt Adam

{"title":"Multi-hop Question Answering","authors":"Vaibhav Mavi, Anubhav Jangra, Jatowt Adam","doi":"10.1561/1500000102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/1500000102","url":null,"abstract":"The task of Question Answering (QA) has attracted significant\u0000research interest for a long time. Its relevance to\u0000language understanding and knowledge retrieval tasks, along\u0000with the simple setting, makes the task of QA crucial for\u0000strong AI systems. Recent success on simple QA tasks has\u0000shifted the focus to more complex settings. Among these,\u0000Multi-Hop QA (MHQA) is one of the most researched tasks\u0000over recent years. In broad terms, MHQA is the task of answering\u0000natural language questions that involve extracting\u0000and combining multiple pieces of information and doing multiple\u0000steps of reasoning. An example of a multi-hop question\u0000would be “The Argentine PGA Championship record holder\u0000has won how many tournaments worldwide?”. Answering\u0000the question would need two pieces of information: “Who is\u0000the record holder for Argentine PGA Championship tournaments?”\u0000and “How many tournaments did [Answer of Sub\u0000Q1] win?”. The ability to answer multi-hop questions and\u0000perform multi step reasoning can significantly improve the\u0000utility of NLP systems. Consequently, the field has seen a\u0000surge of high quality datasets, models and evaluation strategies.\u0000The notion of ‘multiple hops’ is somewhat abstract\u0000which results in a large variety of tasks that require multihop\u0000reasoning. This leads to different datasets and models\u0000that differ significantly from each other and make the field\u0000challenging to generalize and survey. We aim to provide a\u0000general and formal definition of the MHQA task, and organize\u0000and summarize existing MHQA frameworks. We also\u0000outline some best practices for building MHQA datasets.\u0000This monograph provides a systematic and thorough introduction\u0000as well as the structuring of the existing attempts\u0000to this highly interesting, yet quite challenging task.","PeriodicalId":48829,"journal":{"name":"Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Conversational Information Seeking 会话信息搜索

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1561/1500000081

Hamed Zamani, Johanne R. Trippas, Jeff Dalton, Filip Radlinski

引用次数: 49

Perspectives of Neurodiverse Participants in Interactive Information Retrieval 交互信息检索中神经多样性参与者的观点

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1561/1500000086

Laurianne Sitbon, Gerd Berget, Margot Brereton

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Efficient and Effective Tree-based and Neural Learning to Rank 高效的基于树和神经学习的排名

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2023-05-14 DOI: 10.1561/1500000071

Sebastian Bruch, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini

{"title":"Efficient and Effective Tree-based and Neural Learning to Rank","authors":"Sebastian Bruch, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini","doi":"10.1561/1500000071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/1500000071","url":null,"abstract":"As information retrieval researchers, we not only develop algorithmic solutions to hard problems, but we also insist on a proper, multifaceted evaluation of ideas. The literature on the fundamental topic of retrieval and ranking, for instance, has a rich history of studying the effectiveness of indexes, retrieval algorithms, and complex machine learning rankers, while at the same time quantifying their computational costs, from creation and training to application and inference. This is evidenced, for example, by more than a decade of research on efficient training and inference of large decision forest models in Learning to Rank (LtR). As we move towards even more complex, deep learning models in a wide range of applications, questions on efficiency have once again resurfaced with renewed urgency. Indeed, efficiency is no longer limited to time and space; instead it has found new, challenging dimensions that stretch to resource-, sample- and energy-efficiency with ramifications for researchers, users, and the environment.This monograph takes a step towards promoting the study of efficiency in the era of neural information retrieval by offering a comprehensive survey of the literature on efficiency and effectiveness in ranking, and to a limited extent, retrieval. This monograph was inspired by the parallels that exist between the challenges in neural network-based ranking solutions and their predecessors, decision forest-based LtR models, as well as the connections between the solutions the literature to date has to offer. We believe that by understanding the fundamentals underpinning these algorithmic and data structure solutions for containing the contentious relationship between efficiency and effectiveness, one can better identify future directions and more efficiently determine the merits of ideas. We also present what we believe to be important research directions in the forefront of efficiency and effectiveness in retrieval and ranking.","PeriodicalId":48829,"journal":{"name":"Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval","volume":"72 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49697987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Quantum-Inspired Neural Language Representation, Matching and Understanding 量子启发的神经语言表示、匹配和理解

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2023-04-18 DOI: 10.1561/1500000091

Peng Zhang, Hui Gao, Jing Zhang, Dawei Song

{"title":"Quantum-Inspired Neural Language Representation, Matching and Understanding","authors":"Peng Zhang, Hui Gao, Jing Zhang, Dawei Song","doi":"10.1561/1500000091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/1500000091","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of Quantum Theory (QT) provides a unified mathematical framework for Information Retrieval (IR). Compared with the classical IR framework, the quantuminspired IR framework is based on user-centered modeling methods to model non-classical cognitive phenomena in human relevance judgment in the IR process. With the increase of data and computing resources, neural IR methods have been applied to the text matching and understanding task of IR. Neural networks have a strong learning ability of effective representation and generalization of matching patterns from raw data. However, these methods show some unavoidable defects, such as the inability to model user cognitive phenomena, large number of model parameters and the “black box” characteristics of network structure. These problems greatly limit the development of neural IR and related fields. Although the quantum-inspired retrieval framework can theoretically solve the above problems, it is faced with problems such as poor model efficiency and difficulty in integrating with neural network, which lead to a huge gap between QT and neural network modeling.This review gives a systematic introduction to quantuminspired neural IR, including quantum-inspired neural language representation, matching and understanding. This is not only helpful to non-classical phenomena modeling in IR but also to break the theoretical bottleneck of neural networks and design more transparent neural IR models. We introduce the language representation method based on QT and the quantum-inspired text matching and decision making model under neural network, which shows its theoretical advantages in document ranking, relevance matching, multimodal IR, and can be integrated with neural networks to jointly promote the development of IR. The latest progress of quantum language understanding is introduced and further topics on QT and language modeling provide readers with more materials for thinking.","PeriodicalId":48829,"journal":{"name":"Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval","volume":"54 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49698420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Deep Learning for Dialogue Systems: Chit-Chat and Beyond 对话系统的深度学习:闲聊和超越

IF 10.4 2区计算机科学

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1561/1500000083

Rui Yan, Juntao Li, Zhou Yu

引用次数: 10