Negar Arabzadeh

2026

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Query Performance Prediction Using Neural Query Space Proximity.

Amin Bigdeli|Sajad Ebrahimi|Negar Arabzadeh|Sara Salamat|Shirin Seyedsalehi|Maryam Khodabakhsh|Fattane Zarrinkalam|Ebrahim Bagheri

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 2026 Volume 17 Issue 1

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Learning Context-aware Term Importance for Query Performance Prediction.

Abbas Saleminezhad|Negar Arabzadeh|Soosan Beheshti|Ebrahim Bagheri

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 2026 Volume 17 Issue 2

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EMPRA: Embedding Perturbation Rank Attack against Neural Ranking Models.

Amin Bigdeli|Negar Arabzadeh|Ebrahim Bagheri|Charles L. A. Clarke

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2026 Volume 44 Issue 4

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ReFormeR: Learning and Applying Explicit Query Reformulation Patterns.

Amin Bigdeli|Mert Incesu|Negar Arabzadeh|Charles L. A. Clarke|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II

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Structure-Aware Pre-retrieval Performance Prediction on Query Affinity Graphs.

Abbas Saleminezhad|Negar Arabzadeh|Seyed Mohammad Hosseini|Soosan Beheshti|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II

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Can QPP Choose the Right Query variant? Evaluating Query Variant Selection for RAG Pipelines.

Joe Carthy|Negar Arabzadeh|Andrew Drozdov|Michael Bendersky|Matei Zaharia|Joe Carthy|Negar Arabzadeh

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026

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PeerPrism: Peer Evaluation Expertise vs Review-writing AI.

Soroush Sadeghian|Alireza DaghighFarsoodeh|Radin Cheraghi|Sajad Ebrahimi|Negar Arabzadeh|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026

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Can LLMs Uphold Research Integrity? Evaluating the Role of LLMs in Peer Review Quality.

Negar Arabzadeh|Sajad Ebrahimi|Soroush Sadeghian|Seyed Mohammad Hosseini|Alireza Daqiq|Hai Son Le|Mahdi Bashari|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2026, Boise, ID, USA, February 22-26, 2026

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QueryGym: A Toolkit for Reproducible LLM-Based Query Reformulation.

Amin Bigdeli|Radin Hamidi Rad|Mert Incesu|Negar Arabzadeh|Charles L. A. Clarke|Ebrahim Bagheri

Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW Companion 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 29 June 2026 - 3 July 2026

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PeeriScope: A Multi-Faceted Framework for Evaluating Peer Review Quality.

Sajad Ebrahimi|Soroush Sadeghian|Ali Ghorbanpour|Negar Arabzadeh|Sara Salamat|Seyed Mohammad Hosseini|Hai Son Le|Mahdi Bashari|Ebrahim Bagheri

Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW Companion 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 29 June 2026 - 3 July 2026

2025

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Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems.

Shirin Seyedsalehi|Amin Bigdeli|Negar Arabzadeh|Batool AlMousawi|Zack Marshall|Morteza Zihayat|Ebrahim Bagheri

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2025 Volume 19 Issue 3

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Query Performance Prediction Using Relevance Judgments Generated by Large Language Models.

Chuan Meng|Negar Arabzadeh|Arian Askari|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Maarten de Rijke

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025 Volume 43 Issue 4

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Building Trustworthy Peer Review Quality Assessment Systems.

Negar Arabzadeh|Sajad Ebrahimi|Ali Ghorbanpour|Soroush Sadeghian|Sara Salamat|Muhan Li|Hai Son Le|Mahdi Bashari|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025

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RottenReviews: Benchmarking Review Quality with Human and LLM-Based Judgments.

Sajad Ebrahimi|Soroush Sadeghian|Ali Ghorbanpour|Negar Arabzadeh|Sara Salamat|Muhan Li|Hai Son Le|Mahdi Bashari|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025

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LLM-as-a-Judge in Entity Retrieval: Assessing Explicit and Implicit Relevance.

Mohammad Hossein Saliminabi|Negar Arabzadeh|Seyed Mohammad Hosseini|Dimitrios Androutsos|Morteza Zihayat|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025

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exHarmony: Authorship and Citations for Benchmarking the Reviewer Assignment Problem.

Sajad Ebrahimi|Sara Salamat|Negar Arabzadeh|Mahdi Bashari|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6-10, 2025, Proceedings, Part III

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Benchmarking Prompt Sensitivity in Large Language Models.

Amir Hossein Razavi|Mina Soltangheis|Negar Arabzadeh|Sara Salamat|Morteza Zihayat|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6-10, 2025, Proceedings, Part III

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VAP3: Variation-Aware Prompt Performance Prediction.

Negar Arabzadeh|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

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A Human-AI Comparative Analysis of Prompt Sensitivity in LLM-Based Relevance Judgment.

Yaqiang Zang|Negar Arabzadeh|Charles L. A. Clarke|Negar Arabzadeh|Yaqiang Zang

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

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Benchmarking LLM-based Relevance Judgment Methods.

Negar Arabzadeh|Charles L. A. Clarke

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

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IR-RAG @SIGIR25: The Second Edition of the Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems.

Negar Arabzadeh|Ziheng Chen|Fabio Petroni|Federico Siciliano|Fabrizio Silvestri|Giovanni Trappolini

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

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IDAT: A Multi-Modal Dataset and Toolkit for Building and Evaluating Interactive Task-Solving Agents.

Shrestha Mohanty|Negar Arabzadeh|Andrea Tupini|Yuxuan Sun|Alexey Skrynnik|Artem Zholus|Marc-Alexandre Côté|Julia Kiseleva

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

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Query Performance Prediction: Theory, Techniques and Applications.

Negar Arabzadeh|Chuan Meng|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2025, Hannover, Germany, March 10-14, 2025

2024

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Reviewerly: Modeling the Reviewer Assignment Task as an Information Retrieval Problem.

Negar Arabzadeh|Sajad Ebrahimi|Sara Salamat|Mahdi Bashari|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2024, Boise, ID, USA, October 21-25, 2024

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Enhanced Retrieval Effectiveness through Selective Query Generation.

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini|Negar Arabzadeh|Morteza Zihayat|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2024, Boise, ID, USA, October 21-25, 2024

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LaQuE: Enabling Entity Search at Scale.

Negar Arabzadeh|Amin Bigdeli|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part II

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Adapting Standard Retrieval Benchmarks to Evaluate Generated Answers.

Negar Arabzadeh|Amin Bigdeli|Charles L. A. Clarke

Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part II

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BertPE: A BERT-Based Pre-retrieval Estimator for Query Performance Prediction.

Maryam Khodabakhsh|Fattane Zarrinkalam|Negar Arabzadeh

Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part III

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Learning to Jointly Transform and Rank Difficult Queries.

Amin Bigdeli|Negar Arabzadeh|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part IV

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Estimating Query Performance Through Rich Contextualized Query Representations.

Sajad Ebrahimi|Maryam Khodabakhsh|Negar Arabzadeh|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part IV

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Context-Aware Query Term Difficulty Estimation for Performance Prediction.

Abbas Saleminezhad|Negar Arabzadeh|Soosan Beheshti|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part IV

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KnowFIRES: A Knowledge-Graph Framework for Interpreting Retrieved Entities from Search.

Negar Arabzadeh|Kiarash Golzadeh|Christopher Risi|Charles L. A. Clarke|Jian Zhao

Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V

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Query Performance Prediction: From Fundamentals to Advanced Techniques.

Negar Arabzadeh|Chuan Meng|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Ebrahim Bagheri

Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V

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Ranked List Truncation for Large Language Model-based Re-Ranking.

Chuan Meng|Negar Arabzadeh|Arian Askari|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Maarten de Rijke

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024

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Monster Ranking.

Charles L. A. Clarke|Siqing Huo|Negar Arabzadeh

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2024, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 18-22, 2024

2023

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Noisy Perturbations for Estimating Query Difficulty in Dense Retrievers.

Negar Arabzadeh|Radin Hamidi Rad|Maryam Khodabakhsh|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023

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Neural Disentanglement of Query Difficulty and Semantics.

Sara Salamat|Negar Arabzadeh|Shirin Seyedsalehi|Amin Bigdeli|Morteza Zihayat|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023

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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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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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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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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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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

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A is for Adele: An Offline Evaluation Metric for Instant Search.

Negar Arabzadeh|Oleksandra Kmet|Ben Carterette|Charles L. A. Clarke|Claudia Hauff|Praveen Chandar

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023

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Quantifying Ranker Coverage of Different Query Subspaces.

Negar Arabzadeh|Amin Bigdeli|Radin Hamidi Rad|Ebrahim Bagheri

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

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Query Performance Prediction: From Ad-hoc to Conversational Search.

Chuan Meng|Negar Arabzadeh|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Maarten de Rijke

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

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A Preference Judgment Tool for Authoritative Assessment.

Negar Arabzadeh|Jaehyun Lee|Mahsa Seifikar|Linh Nhi Phan Minh|Seongku Kang|Charles L. A. Clarke|Negar Arabzadeh|Jaehyun Lee|Mark D. Smucker|Charles L. A. Clarke|Seongku Kang|Hwanjo Yu|Hwanjo Yu|Mark D. Smucker

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 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.

2022

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Shallow pooling for sparse labels.

Negar Arabzadeh|Alexandra Vtyurina|Xinyi Yan|Charles L. A. Clarke

Discover Computing 2022 Volume 25 Issue 4

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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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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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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

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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

2021

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Matches Made in Heaven: Toolkit and Large-Scale Datasets for Supervised Query Reformulation.

Shirin Seyedsalehi|Junseok Park|Negar Arabzadeh|Alexander Schill|Sungji Choo|Amin Bigdeli|Morteza Zihayat|Ebrahim Bagheri|Junseok Park|Shirin Seyedsalehi|Alexander Schill|Morteza Zihayat|Ebrahim Bagheri|Sungji Choo

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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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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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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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

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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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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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WaterlooClarke at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistant Track.

Xinyi Yan|Charles L. A. Clarke|Negar Arabzadeh

Proceedings of the Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2021, online, November 15-19, 2021

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

Information Processing and Management 2020 Volume 57 Issue 4

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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

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Vis-Trec: A System for the In-depth Analysis of trec_eval Results.

Mahtab Tamannaee|Ludovico Boratto|Negar Arabzadeh|Ludovico Boratto|Maria Salamó|Mahtab Tamannaee|Ebrahim Bagheri|Maria Salamó|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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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.

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