2022

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Analyzing clarification in asynchronous information-seeking conversations
Leila Tavakoli | Hamed Zamani | Falk Scholer | William Bruce Croft | Mark Sanderson
2022 Volume 73 Issue 3

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Towards Mixed-Initiative Conversational Information Seeking
Hamed Zamani
Proceedings of the CIKM 2022 Workshops co-located with 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022), Atlanta, USA, October 17-21, 2022

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Stochastic Retrieval-Conditioned Reranking
Hamed Zamani | Michael Bendersky | Donald Metzler | Honglei Zhuang | Xuanhui Wang
ICTIR '22: The 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 12, 2022

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Revisiting Open Domain Query Facet Extraction and Generation
Chris Samarinas | Arkin Dharawat | Hamed Zamani
ICTIR '22: The 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 12, 2022

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Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Application
Jeffrey Dalton | Sophie Fischer | Paul Owoicho | Filip Radlinski | Federico Rossetto | Johanne R. Trippas | Hamed Zamani
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

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MIMICS-Duo: Offline & Online Evaluation of Search Clarification
Leila Tavakoli | Johanne R. Trippas | Hamed Zamani | Falk Scholer | Mark Sanderson
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

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Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning
Hamed Zamani | Fernando Diaz | Mostafa Dehghani | Donald Metzler | Michael Bendersky
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

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Curriculum Learning for Dense Retrieval Distillation
Hansi Zeng | Hamed Zamani | Vishwa Vinay
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

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Stochastic Optimization of Text Set Generation for Learning Multiple Query Intent Representations
Helia Hashemi | Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17-21, 2022

2021

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Context-aware Target Apps Selection and Recommendation for Enhancing Personal Mobile Assistants
Mohammad Aliannejadi | Hamed Zamani | Fabio Crestani | W. Bruce Croft
2021 Volume 39 Issue 3

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Conversational Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue
Claudia Hauff | Julia Kiseleva | Mark Sanderson | Hamed Zamani | Yongfeng Zhang
2021 Volume 39 Issue 4

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Session details: Session 2B - Conversational Search
Hamed Zamani
ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11, 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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Learning Robust Dense Retrieval Models from Incomplete Relevance Labels
Prafull Prakash | Julian Killingback | Hamed Zamani
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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Improving Transformer-Kernel Ranking Model Using Conformer and Query Term Independence
Bhaskar Mitra | Sebastian Hofstätter | Hamed Zamani | Nick Craswell
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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Towards Multi-Modal Conversational Information Seeking
Yashar Deldjoo | Johanne R. Trippas | Hamed Zamani
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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Current Challenges and Future Directions in Podcast Information Access
Rosie Jones | Hamed Zamani | Markus Schedl | Ching-Wei Chen | Sravana Reddy | Ann Clifton | Jussi Karlgren | Helia Hashemi | Aasish Pappu | Zahra Nazari | Longqi Yang | Oguz Semerci | Hugues Bouchard | Ben Carterette
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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Intra-Document Cascading: Learning to Select Passages for Neural Document Ranking
Sebastian Hofstätter | Bhaskar Mitra | Hamed Zamani | Nick Craswell | Allan Hanbury
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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Learning Multiple Intent Representations for Search Queries
Helia Hashemi | Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

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Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search
Mohammad Aliannejadi | Leif Azzopardi | Hamed Zamani | Evangelos Kanoulas | Paul Thomas | Nick Craswell
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

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Tip of the Tongue Known-Item Retrieval: A Case Study in Movie Identification
Jaime Arguello | Adam Ferguson | Emery Fine | Bhaskar Mitra | Hamed Zamani | Fernando Diaz
CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 14-19, 2021

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Generalizing Discriminative Retrieval Models using Generative Tasks
Binsheng Liu | Hamed Zamani | Xiaolu Lu | J. Shane Culpepper
WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, Virtual Event / Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19-23, 2021

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Towards System-Initiative Conversational Information Seeking
Somin Wadhwa | Hamed Zamani
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems, Padova, Italy, September 15-18, 2021

2020

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A Deep Look into neural ranking models for information retrieval
Jiafeng Guo | Yixing Fan | Liang Pang | Liu Yang | Qingyao Ai | Hamed Zamani | Chen Wu | W. Bruce Croft | Xueqi Cheng
2020 Volume 57 Issue 6

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Learning a Joint Search and Recommendation Model from User-Item Interactions
Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
WSDM '20: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Houston, TX, USA, February 3-7, 2020

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Conformer-Kernel with Query Term Independence at TREC 2020 Deep Learning Track
Bhaskar Mitra | Sebastian Hofstätter | Hamed Zamani | Nick Craswell
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2020, Virtual Event [Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA], November 16-20, 2020

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Macaw: An Extensible Conversational Information Seeking Platform
Hamed Zamani | Nick Craswell
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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Local Self-Attention over Long Text for Efficient Document Retrieval
Sebastian Hofstätter | Hamed Zamani | Bhaskar Mitra | Nick Craswell | Allan Hanbury
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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Recipe Retrieval with Visual Query of Ingredients
Yen-Chieh Lien | Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
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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Analyzing and Learning from User Interactions for Search Clarification
Hamed Zamani | Bhaskar Mitra | Everest Chen | Gord Lueck | Fernando Diaz | Paul N. Bennett | Nick Craswell | Susan T. Dumais
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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Guided Transformer: Leveraging Multiple External Sources for Representation Learning in Conversational Search
Helia Hashemi | Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
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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A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback
Ali Montazeralghaem | Hamed Zamani | James Allan
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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MIMICS: A Large-Scale Data Collection for Search Clarification
Hamed Zamani | Gord Lueck | Everest Chen | Rodolfo Quispe | Flint Luu | Nick Craswell
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020

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Generating Clarifying Questions for Information Retrieval
Hamed Zamani | Susan T. Dumais | Nick Craswell | Paul N. Bennett | Gord Lueck
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020

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ANTIQUE: A Non-factoid Question Answering Benchmark
Helia Hashemi | Mohammad Aliannejadi | Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
Advances in Information Retrieval - 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-17, 2020, Proceedings, Part II

2019

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Neural models for information retrieval without labeled data
Hamed Zamani
2019 Volume 53 Issue 2

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An Analysis of Approaches Taken in the ACM RecSys Challenge 2018 for Automatic Music Playlist Continuation
Hamed Zamani | Markus Schedl | Paul Lamere | Ching-Wei Chen
2019 Volume 10 Issue 5

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Performance Prediction for Non-Factoid Question Answering
Helia Hashemi | Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2019, Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 2-5, 2019

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Analyzing and Predicting News Popularity in an Instant Messaging Service
Mohammad Naseri | Hamed Zamani
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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Asking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations
Mohammad Aliannejadi | Hamed Zamani | Fabio Crestani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019

2018

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A language model-based framework for multi-publisher content-based recommender systems
Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
2018 Volume 21 Issue 5

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Current challenges and visions in music recommender systems research
Markus Schedl | Hamed Zamani | Ching-Wei Chen | Yashar Deldjoo | Mehdi Elahi
2018 Volume 7 Issue 2

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PERSON: Personalized information retrieval evaluation based on citation networks
Shayan A. Tabrizi | Azadeh Shakery | Hamed Zamani | Mohammad Ali Tavallaei
2018 Volume 54 Issue 4

From Neural Re-Ranking to Neural Ranking: Learning a Sparse Representation for Inverted Indexing
Hamed Zamani | Mostafa Dehghani | W. Bruce Croft | Erik Learned-Miller | Jaap Kamps
Proceedings of the 17th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, Leiden, The Netherlands, November 23th, 2018

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Neural Ranking Models with Multiple Document Fields
Hamed Zamani | Bhaskar Mitra | Xia Song | Nick Craswell | Saurabh Tiwary
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2018, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, February 5-9, 2018

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On the Theory of Weak Supervision for Information Retrieval
Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2018, Tianjin, China, September 14-17, 2018

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SIGIR 2018 Workshop on Learning from Limited or Noisy Data for Information Retrieval
Hamed Zamani | Mostafa Dehghani | Fernando Diaz | Hang Li | Nick Craswell
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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Theoretical Analysis of Interdependent Constraints in Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
Ali Montazeralghaem | Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
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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Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports
Hamed R. Bonab | Hamed Zamani | Erik G. Learned-Miller | James Allan
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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Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank: Replacing Expensive Regression Forests with Simple Feed-Forward Networks
Daniel Cohen | John Foley | Hamed Zamani | James Allan | W. Bruce Croft
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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Target Apps Selection: Towards a Unified Search Framework for Mobile Devices
Mohammad Aliannejadi | Hamed Zamani | Fabio Crestani | W. Bruce Croft
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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Neural Query Performance Prediction using Weak Supervision from Multiple Signals
Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft | J. Shane Culpepper
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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In Situ and Context-Aware Target Apps Selection for Unified Mobile Search
Mohammad Aliannejadi | Hamed Zamani | Fabio Crestani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018

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From Neural Re-Ranking to Neural Ranking: Learning a Sparse Representation for Inverted Indexing
Hamed Zamani | Mostafa Dehghani | W. Bruce Croft | Erik G. Learned-Miller | Jaap Kamps
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018

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Joint Modeling and Optimization of Search and Recommendation
Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the First Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information Retrieval Systems, Bertinoro, Italy, August 28-31, 2018

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Towards a Unified Supervised Approach for Ranking Triples of Type-Like Relations
Mahsa S. Shahshahani | Faegheh Hasibi | Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
Advances in Information Retrieval - 40th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2018, Grenoble, France, March 26-29, 2018, Proceedings

2017

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ACM SIGIR Student Liaison Program
Mohammad Aliannejadi | Maram Hasanain | Jiaxin Mao | Jaspreet Singh | Johanne R. Trippas | Hamed Zamani | Laura Dietz
2017 Volume 51 Issue 3

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An expectation-maximization algorithm for query translation based on pseudo-relevant documents
Javid Dadashkarimi | Azadeh Shakery | Heshaam Faili | Hamed Zamani
2017 Volume 53 Issue 2

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UMass at TREC 2017 Common Core Track
Qingyao Ai | Hamed Zamani | Stephen M. Harding | Shahrzad Naseri | James Allan | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2017, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-17, 2017

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Improving Retrieval Performance for Verbose Queries via Axiomatic Analysis of Term Discrimination Heuristic
Mozhdeh Ariannezhad | Ali Montazeralghaem | Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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Word Embedding Causes Topic Shifting; Exploit Global Context!
Navid Rekabsaz | Mihai Lupu | Allan Hanbury | Hamed Zamani
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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Term Proximity Constraints for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
Ali Montazeralghaem | Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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Relevance-based Word Embedding
Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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Neural Ranking Models with Weak Supervision
Mostafa Dehghani | Hamed Zamani | Aliaksei Severyn | Jaap Kamps | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

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Situational Context for Ranking in Personal Search
Hamed Zamani | Michael Bendersky | Xuanhui Wang | Mingyang Zhang
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2017, Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017

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Iterative Estimation of Document Relevance Score for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
Mozhdeh Ariannezhad | Ali Montazeralghaem | Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
Advances in Information Retrieval - 39th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, UK, April 8-13, 2017, Proceedings

2016

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Embedding-based Query Language Models
Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2016, Newark, DE, USA, September 12- 6, 2016

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Estimating Embedding Vectors for Queries
Hamed Zamani | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2016, Newark, DE, USA, September 12- 6, 2016

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Axiomatic Analysis for Improving the Log-Logistic Feedback Model
Ali Montazeralghaem | Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016

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Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Based on Matrix Factorization
Hamed Zamani | Javid Dadashkarimi | Azadeh Shakery | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 2016

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Cross Domain User Engagement Evaluation
Ali Montazeralghaem | Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
Advances in Information Retrieval - 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Proceedings

2015

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Adaptive User Engagement Evaluation via Multi-task Learning
Hamed Zamani | Pooya Moradi | Azadeh Shakery
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015

2014

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Authorship Identification Using Dynamic Selection of Features from Probabilistic Feature Set
Hamed Zamani | Hossein Nasr Esfahani | Pariya Babaie | Samira Abnar | Mostafa Dehghani | Azadeh Shakery
Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014. Proceedings

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Expanded N-Grams for Semantic Text Alignment Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2014
Samira Abnar | Mostafa Dehghani | Hamed Zamani | Azadeh Shakery
Working Notes for CLEF 2014 Conference, Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014