CIIR Contributions to ACM SIGIR 2023

CIIR researchers will present seven papers and one workshop at the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023) in July in Taipei. SIGIR is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval.

Full Paper Track:

A Personalized Dense Retrieval Framework for Unified Information Access
Hansi Zeng, Surya Kallumadi, Zaid Alibadi, Rodrigo Nogueira, Hamed Zamani

A Symmetric Dual Encoding Dense Retrieval Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering
Alireza Salemi, Juan Altmayer PizzornoHamed Zamani

Cross-Market E-Commerce Question Answering by Jointly Ranking Questions and Products
Negin Ghasemi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Bonab, Evangelos Kanoulas, Arjen de Vries, James Allan, Djoerd Himestra

Editable User Profiles for Controllable Text Recommendations
Sheshera Mysore, Mahmood Jasim, Andrew McCallum, Hamed Zamani

FiD-Light: Efficient and Effective Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation
Sebastian Hofstätter, Jiecao Chen, Karthik Raman, Hamed Zamani

Multivariate Representation Learning for Information Retrieval
Hamed Zamani, Michael Bendersky

Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval
Zhiqi Huang, Hansi Zeng, Hamed Zamani, James Allan

Workshop Organization:

SIGIR 2023 Workshop on Retrieval Enhanced Machine Learning (REML @ SIGIR 2023)
Michael Bendersky, Danqi Chen, Fernando Diaz, Hamed Zamani

Papers are sorted in alphabetical order. Bold author names represent current UMass/CIIR affiliates.

Collaborating with the current CIIR researchers whose papers will be presented at SIGIR 2023, the following former CIIR researchers (PhD alums and visiting researchers) are co-authors on the above papers: Mohammad Aliannejadi, Michael Bendersky, Hamed Bonab, Fernando Diaz, and Sebastian Hofstätter.