IR-1274: (2021) Cohen, D., "Neural Methods for Answer Passage Retrieval over Sparse Collections," Doctoral Dissertation, February 2021. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1249: (2021) Cohen, D., "Allowing for The Grounded Use of Temporal Difference Learning in Large Ranking Models via Substate Updates," in the Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021), Virtual Event, Canada. July 11-15, 2021, pp. 438-448. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1167: (2019) Cohen, D., Croft, W. B. and Jordan, S., "Learning a Better Negative Sampling Policy with Deep Neural Networks for Search," in the Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2019), Santa Clara, CA, Oct. 2-5, 2019, pp. 19-26. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1163: (2018) Lignos, C., Cohen, D., Lien, Y., Mehta, P., Croft, W. B. and Miller, S., "The Challenges of Optimizing Machine Translation for Low Resource Cross-Language Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019), Hong Kong, November 3–7, 2019, pp. 3488-3493. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1162: (2018) Jordan, S., Cohen, D. and Thomas, P., "Using Cumulative Distribution Based Performance Analysis to Benchmark Models," Neural Information and Processing System (NIPS 18), Critiquing and Correcting Trends in Machine Learning Workshop, Montreal, Canada, December 2-8, 2018. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1156: (2018) Lien, Y., Cohen, D. and Croft, W. B. , "An Assumption-Free Approach to the Dynamic Truncation of Ranked Lists," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2019), Santa Clara, California, October 02-05, 2019, pp. 79-82. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1149: (2018) Cohen, D., Jordan, S. and Croft, W. B. , "Distributed Evaluations: Ending Neural Point Metrics," a workshop at SIGIR 18, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 8-12, 2018. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1139: (2018) Cohen, D., Foley, J., Zamani, H., Allan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank," in the Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor, MI, Jul. 8-12 2018 (SIGIR’18), pp. 1017-1020. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1135: (2018) Cohen, D., Mitra, B., Hofmann, K. and Croft, W. B. , "Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models using Adversarial Learning," in the Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '18), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 8-12, 2018, pp. 1025-1028. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1122: (2018) Cohen, D., OConnor, B. and Croft, W. B. , "Understanding the Representational Power of Neural Retrieval Models Using NLP Tasks," in the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2018), Tianjin, China, September 14-17, 2018, pp. 67-74. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1111: (2017) Cohen, D., Croft, W. B. and Yang, L., "WikiPassageQA: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Non-factoid Answer Passage Retrieval.," 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. 165-168. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1084: (2016) Cohen, D. and Croft, W. B. , "A Hybrid Embedding Approach for Noisy Answer Passage Retrieval," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 18), Grenoble, France, 3/26-29/2018, pp. 127-140. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1069: (2016) Cohen, D., Ai, Q. and Croft, W. B. , "Adaptability of Neural Networks on Varying Granularity IR Tasks," The International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’16), NeuIR: Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval , Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1059: (2016) Cohen, D. and Croft, W. B. , "End to End Long Short Term Memory Networks for Non-Factoid Question Answering," in the Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA September 12-16, 2016, pp. 143-146. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]