Zhuyun Dai

Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

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2020

-L. Gao, Z. Dai, and J. Callan. Understand BERT rankers under distillation. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. [pdf]

-S. Zhang*, Z. Dai*, K. Balog and J. Callan "Summarizing and Exploring Tabular Data in Conversational Search" (short paper). SIGIR 2020. (*: Equal Contribution) [pdf][code and data]

-J. Mackenzie, Z. Dai, L. Gallagher and J. Callan. "Efficiency Implications of Term Re-Weighting for Passage Retrieval" (short paper). SIGIR 2020. [pdf]

-Z. Dai and J. Callan. "Context-Aware Term Weighting For First-Stage Passage Retrieval" (short paper). SIGIR 2020. [pdf][code]

-Z. Dai and J. Callan. "Context-Aware Document Term Weighting for Ad-Hoc Search". In proceedings of the 2020 World Wide Web Conference (the Web Conference). [pdf][slides]

2019

-R. Padaki, Z. Dai, and J. Callan. "Rethinking Query Expansion for BERT Reranking" (short paper). In proceedings of the 42nd European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR). 2020. [pdf]

-Z. Dai and J. Callan. "Context-Aware Sentence/Passage Term Importance Estimation For First Stage Retrieval". arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10687. 2019. [pdf] [Code][data]

-Z. Dai and J. Callan. "Deeper text understanding for IR with contextual neural language modeling" (short paper). In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). 2019. [pdf] [Code] [data]

-Z. Dai*, Z. Fan*, H. R. Mohammad, and J. Callan. "Local matching networks for engineering diagram search". In Proceedings the 2019 The Web Conference. 2019. [pdf] [poster] [Appendix for The Ikea Dataset]

2018

-M. A. Pyreddy, V. Ramaseshan, N. N. Joshi, Z. Dai, C. Xiong, J. Callan and Z.Liu. "Consistency and variation in Kernel Neural Ranking Mod". In Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). 2018. [pdf] [poster]

-Z. Dai and J. Callan. "Inverted list caching for topical index shards." In Advances in Information Retrieval - 40th European Conference on IR Research. Springer. [pdf]

-Z. Dai, C. Xiong, and J. Callan. "An evaluation of the Kernel Based Neural Ranking Model in NTCIR13 WWW." In Proceedings of the 13th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies. National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. [pdf]

-Z. Dai, C. Xiong, J. Callan, and Z. Liu. "Convolutional neural networks for soft-matching n-grams in ad-hoc search." In Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. 2018. [pdf] [poster] [spotlight slides].

-S. Medina, Z. Dai, and Y. Gao. "Where is this? Video geolocation based on neural network features." arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09068. 2018 [arXiv preprint]

2017

- C. Xiong*, Z. Dai*, J. Callan, Z. Liu, R. Power "End-to-End Neural Ad-hoc Ranking with Kernel Pooling." In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval. 2017. [pdf] [slides] [code (Github)]

- Z. Dai, Y.Kim, J. Callan. "Learning-To-Rank Resources." In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval. 2017. [pdf] [poster] [data]

2016 and Earlier

- Z. Dai, C. Xiong, J. Callan. "Query-biased Partioning for Selective Search." In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). [pdf] [slides] [data]

- Z. Dai, Y. Kim, J. Callan."How Random Decisions Affect Selective Search." In Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 771-774. ACM. 2015. [pdf] [poster].

- Y. Xu, Y. Yue, Z. Dai "A management model for SDN-based data center networks." Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2014 IEEE Conference on. IEEE, 2014.