CIIR publications authored by Yongfeng Zhang


IR-1262: (2021) Hauff, C.,  Kiseleva, J.,  Sanderson, M.,  Zamani, H. and Zhang, Y., "Conversational Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue," in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 39,Issue 4,October 2021, Article No.: 38, pp 1–6 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1203: (2019) Yang, L.,  Qiu, M.,  Qu, C.,  Chen, C.,  Guo, J.,  Zhang, Y., Croft, W. B. and Chen, H., "IART: Intent-aware Response Ranking with Transformers in Information-seeking Conversation Systems," in the Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 (WWW 2020), Taipei, China, April 20-24, 2020, pp. 2592–2598. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1193: (2019) Qu, C.,  Yang, L.,  Qiu, M.,  Zhang, Y.,  Chen, C., Croft, W. B. and Iyyer, M., "Attentive History Selection for Conversational Question Answering," in the Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019), Beijing, China, November 03-07, 2019, pp. 1391-1400. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1175: (2019) Qu, C.,  Yang, L.,  Qiu, M., Croft, W. B. ,  Zhang, Y. and Iyyer, M., "BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering," in the Proceedings of to the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), Paris, France. July 21-25, 2019, pp. 1133-1136. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1171: (2019) Bi, K.,  Ai, Q.,  Zhang, Y. and Croft, W. B. , "Conversational Product Search Based on Negative Feedback," in the Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019), Beijing, China, November 03-07, 2019, pp. 359-368. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1161: (2019) Qu, C.,  Yang, L., Croft, W. B. ,  Scholer, F. and Zhang, Y., "Answer Interaction in Non-factoid Question Answering Systems," in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 19), Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 March, 2019, pp. 249-253. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1148: (2018) Qu, C.,  Yang, L., Croft, W. B. ,  Zhang, Y.,  Trippas, J. and Qiu, M., "User Intent Prediction in Information-seeking Conversations," in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 19), Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 March, 2019, pp. 25-33. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1140: (2018) Qu, C.,  Yang, L., Croft, W. B. ,  Trippas, J.,  Zhang, Y. and Qui, M., "Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations," in the Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '18), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 8-12, 2018, pp. 989-992. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1134: (2018) Yang, L.,  Qiu, M.,  Qu, C.,  Guo, J.,  Zhang, Y., Croft, W. B. ,  Huang, J. and Chen, H., "Response Ranking with Deep Matching Networks and External Knowledge in Information-seeking Conversation Systems," in the Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '18) Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 8-12, 2018, pp. 245-254. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1133: (2018) Zhang, Y.,  Chen, X.,  Yang, L.,  Ai, Q. and Croft, W. B. , "Towards Conversational Search and Recommendation: System Ask, User Respond," in the Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '18), Lingotto, Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018, pp. 177 - 186. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1128: (2018) Ai, Q.,  Zhang, Y.,  Bi, K. and Croft, W. B. , "Explainable Product Search with a Dynamic Relation Embedding Model," in ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), vol. 38, num. 1, October, 2019, pp. 4:1-4:29. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1114: (2017) Yang, L.,  Zamani, H.,  Zhang, Y.,  Guo, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Neural Matching Models for Question Retrieval and Next Question Prediction in Conversation," presented at the SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (SIGIR Neu-IR 2017), Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1106: (2017) Friedman, D.,  Zhang, Y. and Zhang, Y., "Pareto Efficient Recommendation," in the Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2017), Halifax, Nova Scotia - Canada, August 13 - 17, 2017. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1096: (2017) Lin, X.,  Zhang, M.,  Zhang, Y. and Gu, Z., "Learning and Transferring Social and Item Visibilities for Personalized Recommendation," in the Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 6-10, 2017, Singapore, pp. 337-346. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1095: (2017) Lin, X.,  Zhang, M.,  Zhang, Y. and Gu, Z., "Fairness-Aware Group Recommendation with Pareto Efficiency," in the Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017, https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/), Como, Italy, 27th-31st August 2017, pp. 107-115. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1094: (2017) Chen, X.,  Zhang, Y.,  Ai, Q.,  Xu, H.,  Yan, J. and Qin, Z., "Personalized Key Frame Recommendation," in the Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 17), Tokyo, Japan, August 2017, pp. 315-324. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1093: (2017) Zhang, Y.,  Ai, Q.,  Chen, X. and Croft, W. B. , "Joint Representation Learning for Top-N Recommendation with Heterogenous Information Sources," in the Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Singapore, November 06-10, 2017, pp. 1449-1458. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1091: (2017) Ai, Q.,  Zhang, Y.,  Bi, K., Croft, W. B. and Chen, X., "Learning a Hierarchical Embedding Model for Personalized Product Search," in the Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 17), Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 2017, pp. 645-654. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1088: (2017) Lin, X.,  Zhang, M.,  Zhang, Y.,  Gu, Z.,  Liu, Y. and Ma, S., "Boosting Moving Average Reversion Strategy for Online Portfolio Selection: A Meta-Learning Approach," in the Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 17), Suzhou, China, March 27-30, 2017, pp. 494-510. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]

IR-1087: (2017) Qi, Z.,  Zhang, Y.,  Zhang, Y. and Friedman, D., "Multi-Product Utility Maximization for Economic Recommendation," in the Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 17) Cambridge, UK, February 6-10, 2017, pp. 435-443. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]