Advances in Information Retrieval

Reproducibility Papers.- Knowledge Graph Entity Alignment with Graph Neural Networks: Lessons Learned.- The Effect of Content-Equivalent Near-Duplicates on the Evaluation of Search Engines.- From MaxScore to Block-Max WAND: The Story of How Lucene Significantly Improved Query Evaluation Performance.- Which BM25 Do You Mean? A Large-Scale Reproducibility Study of Scoring Variants.- The Unfairness of Popularity Bias in Music Recommendation: A Reproducibility Study.- Reproducibility is a Process, not an Achievement: The Replicability of IR Reproducibility Experiments.- On the Replicability of Combining Word Embeddings and Retrieval Models.- Influence of Random Walk Parametrization on Graph Embeddings.- Short Papers.- Calling attention to passages for biomedical question answering.- Neural Embedding-based Metrics for Pre-Retrieval Query Performance Prediction.- A Latent Model for Ad Hoc Table Retrieval.- Hybrid Semantic Recommender System for Chemical Compounds.- Assessing the Impact of OCR Errors in Information Retrieval.- Towards Query Logs for Privacy Studies: On Deriving Search Queries from Questions.- Machine-actionable data management plans: A knowledge retrieval approach to automate the assessment of funders' requirements.- Session-based Path Prediction by Combining Local and Global Content Preferences.- Unsupervised Ensemble of Ranking Models for News Comments Using Pseudo Answers.- Irony Detection in a Multilingual Context.- Document Network Projection in Pretrained Word Embedding Space.- Supervised Learning Methods for Diversification of Image Search Results.- ANTIQUE: A Non-Factoid Question Answering Benchmark.- Neural Query-biased Abstractive Summarization Using Copying Mechanism.- Distant Supervision for Extractive Question Summarization.- Text-Image-Video Summary Generation using Joint Integer Linear Programming.- Domain Adaptation via Context Prediction for Engineering Diagram Search.- Crowdsourcing Truthfulness: The Impact of Judgment Scale and Assessor Bias.- Novel and Diverse Recommendations by Leveraging Linear Models with User and Item Embeddings.- A Multi-task Approach to Open Domain Suggestion Mining using Language Model for Text Over-sampling.- MedLinker: Medical Entity Linking with Neural Representations and Dictionary Matching.- Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports.- Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Resurrecting Multilingual Retrieval Using Zero-shot Learning.- Semi-Supervised Extractive Question Summarization Using Question-Answer Pairs.- Utilizing Temporal Psycholinguistic Cues for Suicidal Intent Estimation.- PMD: An Optimal Transportation-based User Distance for Recommender Systems.- On Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: Experiments in Bilingual Transfer for Clinical and Social Media Texts.- SlideImages: A Dataset for Educational Image Classification.- Rethinking Query Expansion for BERT Reranking.- Personalized Video Summarization based exclusively on User Preferences.- SentiInc: Incorporating Sentiment Information into Sentiment Transfer without Parallel Data.- Dualism in Topical Relevance.- Keyphrase Extraction as Sequence Labeling using Contextualized Embeddings.- Easing Legal News Monitoring with Learning to Rank and BERT.- Generating query suggestions for cross-language and cross-terminology health information retrieval.- Identifying Notable News Stories.- BERT for Evidence Retrieval and Claim Verification.- BiOnt: Deep Learning using Multiple Biomedical Ontologies for Relation Extraction.- On the Temporality of Priors in Entity Linking.- Contextualized Embeddings in Named-Entity Recognition: An Empirical Study on Generalization.- DAKE: Document-level Attention for Keyphrase Extraction.- Understanding depression from psycholinguistic patterns in social media Texts.- Predicting the Size of Candidate Document Set for Implicit Web Search Result Diversification.- Aspect-based Academic Search using Domain-specific KB.- Dynamic Heterogeneous Graph Embedding us