Publications

Enhancing Human Annotation: Leveraging Large Language Models and Efficient Batch Processing?
Large language models (LLMs) are capable of assessing document and query characteristics, including relevance, and are now being used …
Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas
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sMARE: a new paradigm to evaluate and understand query performance prediction methods
Query performance prediction (QPP) has been studied extensively in the IR community over the last two decades. A by-product of this …
Guglielmo Faggioli, Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Nicola Ferro, Falk Scholer
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Can Users Predict Relative Query Effectiveness?
Any given information need can be expressed via a wide range of possible queries. Recent work with such query variations has …
Oleg Zendel, Melika P. Ebrahim, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer
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Is Query Performance Prediction With Multiple Query Variations Harder Than Topic Performance Prediction?
Accurately estimating the retrieval effectiveness of different queries representing distinct information needs is a problem in …
Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Falk Scholer
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New Perspectives to Query Performance Prediction Evaluation
The research on Query Performance Prediction (QPP) focuses on estimating the effectiveness of retrieval results in the absence of human …
Oleg Zendel
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An Enhanced Evaluation Framework for Query Performance Prediction
Query Performance Prediction (QPP) has been studied extensively in the IR community over the last two decades. A by-product of this …
Guglielmo Faggioli, Oleg Zendel, J. Shane Culpepper, Nicola Ferro, Falk Scholer
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An Enhanced Evaluation Framework for Query Performance Prediction
Leveraging User Email Actions to Improve Ad-Close Prediction
Online advertising systems often provide means for users to close ads and also leave feedback. Although closing ads requires additional …
Oleg Zendel, Yaroslav Fyodorov, Fiana Raiber, Natalia Silberstein, Oren Somekh, Ali Tabaja
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Information Needs, Queries, and Query Performance Prediction
The query performance prediction (QPP) task is to estimate the effectiveness of a search performed in response to a query with no …
Oleg Zendel, Anna Shtok, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurland, J. Shane Culpepper
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