2023

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Preference-Based Offline Evaluation
Charles L. A. Clarke | Fernando Diaz | Negar Arabzadeh
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2023, Singapore, 27 February 2023 - 3 March 2023

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Neural Ad-Hoc Retrieval Meets Open Information Extraction
Duc-Thuan Vo | Fattane Zarrinkalam | Ba Pham | Negar Arabzadeh | Sara Salamat | Ebrahim Bagheri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part II

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Learning Query-Space Document Representations for High-Recall Retrieval
Sara Salamat | Negar Arabzadeh | Fattane Zarrinkalam | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part II

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Don't Raise Your Voice, Improve Your Argument: Learning to Retrieve Convincing Arguments
Sara Salamat | Negar Arabzadeh | Amin Bigdeli | Shirin Seyedsalehi | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part II

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De-biasing Relevance Judgements for Fair Ranking
Amin Bigdeli | Negar Arabzadeh | Shirin Seyedsalehi | Bhaskar Mitra | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part II

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Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems
Amin Bigdeli | Negar Arabzadeh | Shirin Seyedsalehi | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part III

2022

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Shallow pooling for sparse labels
Negar Arabzadeh | Alexandra Vtyurina | Xinyi Yan | Charles L. A. Clarke
2022 Volume 25 Issue 4

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Gender Fairness in Information Retrieval Systems
Amin Bigdeli | Negar Arabzadeh | Shirin Seyedsalehi | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
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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Addressing Gender-related Performance Disparities in Neural Rankers
Shirin Seyedsalehi | Amin Bigdeli | Negar Arabzadeh | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
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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Early Stage Sparse Retrieval with Entity Linking
Dahlia Shehata | Negar Arabzadeh | Charles L. A. Clarke
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17-21, 2022

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Unsupervised Question Clarity Prediction through Retrieved Item Coherency
Negar Arabzadeh | Mahsa Seifikar | Charles L. A. Clarke
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17-21, 2022

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A Light-Weight Strategy for Restraining Gender Biases in Neural Rankers
Amin Bigdeli | Negar Arabzadeh | Shirin Seyedsalehi | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part II

2021

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On the Orthogonality of Bias and Utility in Ad hoc Retrieval
Amin Bigdeli | Negar Arabzadeh | Shirin Seyedsalehi | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
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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MS MARCO Chameleons: Challenging the MS MARCO Leaderboard with Extremely Obstinate Queries
Negar Arabzadeh | Bhaskar Mitra | Ebrahim Bagheri
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

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Matches Made in Heaven: Toolkit and Large-Scale Datasets for Supervised Query Reformulation
Negar Arabzadeh | Amin Bigdeli | Shirin Seyedsalehi | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

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Predicting Efficiency/Effectiveness Trade-offs for Dense vs. Sparse Retrieval Strategy Selection
Negar Arabzadeh | Xinyi Yan | Charles L. A. Clarke
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

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BERT-QPP: Contextualized Pre-trained transformers for Query Performance Prediction
Negar Arabzadeh | Maryam Khodabakhsh | Ebrahim Bagheri
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

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Exploring Gender Biases in Information Retrieval Relevance Judgement Datasets
Amin Bigdeli | Negar Arabzadeh | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part II

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Query Performance Prediction Through Retrieval Coherency
Negar Arabzadeh | Amin Bigdeli | Morteza Zihayat | Ebrahim Bagheri
Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part II

2020

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Neural embedding-based specificity metrics for pre-retrieval query performance prediction
Negar Arabzadeh | Fattane Zarrinkalam | Jelena Jovanovic | Feras N. Al-Obeidat | Ebrahim Bagheri
2020 Volume 57 Issue 4

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WaterlooClarke at the Trec 2020 Conversational Assistant Track
Negar Arabzadeh | Charles L. A. Clarke
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2020, Virtual Event [Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA], November 16-20, 2020

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Vis-Trec: A System for the In-depth Analysis of trec_eval Results
Mahtab Tamannaee | Negar Arabzadeh | Ebrahim Bagheri
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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Neural Embedding-Based Metrics for Pre-retrieval Query Performance Prediction
Negar Arabzadeh | Fattane Zarrinkalam | Jelena Jovanovic | Ebrahim Bagheri
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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Entity Retrieval Docker Image for OSIRRC at SIGIR 2019
Negar Arabzadeh
Proceedings of the Open-Source IR Replicability Challenge co-located with 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, OSIRRC@SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 25, 2019

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Geometric Estimation of Specificity within Embedding Spaces
Negar Arabzadeh | Fattane Zarrinkalam | Jelena Jovanovic | Ebrahim Bagheri
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019

2018

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Causal Dependencies for Future Interest Prediction on Twitter
Negar Arabzadeh | Hossein Fani | Fattane Zarrinkalam | Ahmed Navivala | Ebrahim Bagheri
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018

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