2021

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Passage Retrieval for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering
Chen Qu | Hamed Zamani | Liu Yang | W. Bruce Croft | Erik G. Learned-Miller
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021

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Natural Language Understanding with Privacy-Preserving BERT
Chen Qu | Weize Kong | Liu Yang | Mingyang Zhang | Michael Bendersky | Marc Najork
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

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Weakly-Supervised Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering
Chen Qu | Liu Yang | Cen Chen | W. Bruce Croft | Kalpesh Krishna | Mohit Iyyer
Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part I

2020

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Contextual Re-Ranking with Behavior Aware Transformers
Chen Qu | Chenyan Xiong | Yizhe Zhang | Corby Rosset | W. Bruce Croft | Paul N. Bennett
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

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Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering
Chen Qu | Liu Yang | Cen Chen | Minghui Qiu | W. Bruce Croft | Mohit Iyyer
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

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IART: Intent-aware Response Ranking with Transformers in Information-seeking Conversation Systems
Liu Yang | Minghui Qiu | Chen Qu | Cen Chen | Jiafeng Guo | Yongfeng Zhang | W. Bruce Croft | Haiqing Chen
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020

2019

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Learning to Selectively Transfer: Reinforced Transfer Learning for Deep Text Matching
Chen Qu | Feng Ji | Minghui Qiu | Liu Yang | Zhiyu Min | Haiqing Chen | Jun Huang | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, February 11-15, 2019

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BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering
Chen Qu | Liu Yang | Minghui Qiu | W. Bruce Croft | Yongfeng Zhang | Mohit Iyyer
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019

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Attentive History Selection for Conversational Question Answering
Chen Qu | Liu Yang | Minghui Qiu | Yongfeng Zhang | Cen Chen | W. Bruce Croft | Mohit Iyyer
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019

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A Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Neural Conversation Model
Liu Yang | Junjie Hu | Minghui Qiu | Chen Qu | Jianfeng Gao | W. Bruce Croft | Xiaodong Liu | Yelong Shen | Jingjing Liu
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019

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Answer Interaction in Non-factoid Question Answering Systems
Chen Qu | Liu Yang | W. Bruce Croft | Falk Scholer | Yongfeng Zhang
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, March 10-14, 2019

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User Intent Prediction in Information-seeking Conversations
Chen Qu | Liu Yang | W. Bruce Croft | Yongfeng Zhang | Johanne R. Trippas | Minghui Qiu
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, March 10-14, 2019

2018

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Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations
Chen Qu | Liu Yang | W. Bruce Croft | Johanne R. Trippas | Yongfeng Zhang | Minghui Qiu
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018

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Response Ranking with Deep Matching Networks and External Knowledge in Information-seeking Conversation Systems
Liu Yang | Minghui Qiu | Chen Qu | Jiafeng Guo | Yongfeng Zhang | W. Bruce Croft | Jun Huang | Haiqing Chen
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018