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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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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Match^2: A Matching over Matching Model for Similar Question Identification
Zizhen Wang | Yixing Fan | Jiafeng Guo | Liu Yang | Ruqing Zhang | Yanyan Lan | Xueqi Cheng | Hui Jiang | Xiaozhao Wang
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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Beyond 512 Tokens: Siamese Multi-depth Transformer-based Hierarchical Encoder for Long-Form Document Matching
Liu Yang | Mingyang Zhang | Cheng Li | Michael Bendersky | Marc Najork
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 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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Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context, and Topic
Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar | John Foley | Liu Yang | James Allan
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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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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WikiPassageQA: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Non-factoid Answer Passage Retrieval
Daniel Cohen | Liu Yang | 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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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

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Towards Conversational Search and Recommendation: System Ask, User Respond
Yongfeng Zhang | Xu Chen | Qingyao Ai | Liu Yang | W. Bruce Croft
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018

2017

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Characterizing and Predicting Enterprise Email Reply Behavior
Liu Yang | Susan T. Dumais | Paul N. Bennett | Ahmed Hassan Awadallah
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017

2016

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Analysis of the Paragraph Vector Model for Information Retrieval
Qingyao Ai | Liu Yang | Jiafeng Guo | 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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Improving Language Estimation with the Paragraph Vector Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval
Qingyao Ai | Liu Yang | Jiafeng Guo | W. Bruce Croft
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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aNMM: Ranking Short Answer Texts with Attention-Based Neural Matching Model
Liu Yang | Qingyao Ai | Jiafeng Guo | 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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Modeling User Interests for Zero-Query Ranking
Liu Yang | Qi Guo | Yang Song | Sha Meng | Milad Shokouhi | Kieran McDonald | W. Bruce Croft
Advances in Information Retrieval - 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Proceedings

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Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval
Liu Yang | Qingyao Ai | Damiano Spina | Ruey-Cheng Chen | Liang Pang | W. Bruce Croft | Jiafeng Guo | Falk Scholer
Advances in Information Retrieval - 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Proceedings

2013

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Modeling interaction features for debate side clustering
Minghui Qiu | Liu Yang | Jing Jiang
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013

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CQArank: jointly model topics and expertise in community question answering
Liu Yang | Minghui Qiu | Swapna Gottipati | Feida Zhu | Jing Jiang | Huiping Sun | Zhong Chen
22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 2013