Liu Yang

2021

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Learning to Expand: Reinforced Response Expansion for Information-seeking Conversations.
Haojie Pan|Cen Chen|Chengyu Wang|Minghui Qiu|Liu Yang|Feng Ji|Jun Huang
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 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
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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

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
Information Processing and Management 2020 Volume 57 Issue 6
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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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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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Match²: 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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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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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
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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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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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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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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

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
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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

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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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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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
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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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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

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