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Short Papers Schedule

Session 1

Monday 7th April | 16.30-18.00 | Cloister – IMT Campus

Passage Segmentation of Documents for Extractive Question AnsweringZuhong Liu, Fabien Caspani and Charles-Elie Simon
DiffGR: A Discrete Diffusion-Based Model for Personalised Recommendation by Reconstructing User-Item Bipartite GraphsZheng Ju, Honghui Du, Elias Tragos, Neil Hurley and Aonghus Lawlor
Hierarchical Skip Decoding for Efficient Autoregressive Language ModelYunqi Zhu, Xuebing Yang, Yuanyuan Wu and Wensheng Zhang
EGL-DST: Error-Guided Learning for Multidimensional Evaluation Method of Dialogue State Tracking via GPT-4Wenjie Dong, Sirong Chen, Ming Gu and Yan Yang
Examining the Impact of Transcript Accuracy on Podcast Search and Re-RankingWatheq Mansour, Shane Culpepper and Joel Mackenzie
Patience in Proximity: A Simple Early Termination Strategy for HNSW Graph Traversal in Approximate k-Nearest Neighbor SearchTommaso Teofili and Jimmy Lin
BAAF – A Framework for Media Bias DetectionSoumyadeep Sar, Subinay Adhikary and Dwaipayan Roy
Ranking Generated Answers: On the Agreement of Retrieval Models with Humans on Consumer Health QuestionsSebastian Heineking, Jonas Probst, Daniel Steinbach, Martin Potthast and Harrisen Scells
Investigating the Scalability of Approximate Sparse Retrieval Algorithms to Massive DatasetsSebastian Bruch, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Rossano Venturini and Leonardo Venuta
Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector RetrievalSean MacAvaney, Antonio Mallia and Nicola Tonellotto
Entity-Aware Cross-Modal Pretraining for Knowledge-based Visual Question AnsweringOmar Adjali, Olivier Ferret, Sahar Ghannay and Hervé Le Borgne
SAFERec: Self-Attention and Frequency Enriched Model for Next Basket RecommendationOleg Lashinin, Krasilnikov Denis, Aleksandr Milogradskii and Marina Ananyeva
A new dataset for keyword extraction from IT job descriptionsNisan Fichman, Hadar Isaacson and Natalia Vanetik
A Test Collection for Dataset RetrievalNikolay Kolyada, Martin Potthast and Benno Stein
Iterative Self-Training for Code Generation via Reinforced Re-RankingNikita Sorokin, Ivan Sedykh and Valentin Malykh
CLASP: Contrastive Language-Speech Pretraining for Multilingual Multimodal Information RetrievalMohammad Mahdi Abootorabi and Ehsaneddin Asgari
Retrieval-Augmented Neural Team FormationMohammad Dara, Radin Hamidi Rad, Fattane Zarrinkalam and Ebrahim Bagheri
Improving RAG for Personalization with Author Features and Contrastive ExamplesMert Yazan, Frederik Bungaran Ishak Situmeang and Suzan Verberne
Improving Language Model Performance by Training on Prototypical ContradictionsMaren Pielka, Marie-Christin Freischlad, Svetlana Schmidt and Rafet Sifa
Sequence-to-Sequence Encoder-Decoder Models for Efficient Listwise RerankingManveer Singh Tamber, Ronak Pradeep and Jimmy Lin
Large Language Model Can Be a Foundation for Hidden Rationale-Based RetrievalLuo Ji, Feixiang Guo, Teng Chen, Qingqing Gu, Xiaoyu Wang, Ningyuan Xi, Yihong Wang, Peng Yu, Yue Zhao, Hongyang Lei, Zhonglin Jiang and Yong Chen
Can Generative AI Adequately Protect Queries? Analyzing the Trade-off Between Privacy Awareness and Retrieval EffectivenessLuca Herranz-Celotti, Blessing Guembe, Giovanni Livraga and Marco Viviani
Approximate Bag-of-Words Top-k Corpus GraphsLachlan Dunn, Luke Gallagher and Joel Mackenzie
A Simple but Effective Closed-form Solution for Extreme Multi-label LearningKazuma Onishi and Katsuhiko Hayashi
ColBERT-serve: Efficient Multi-Stage Memory-Mapped ScoringKaili Huang, Thejas Venkatesh, Uma Dingankar, Antonio Mallia, Daniel Campos, Jian Jiao, Christopher Potts, Matei Zaharia, Kwabena Boahen, Omar Khattab, Saarthak Sarup and Keshav Santhanam
Do LLMs Provide Consistent Answers to Health-Related Questions across Languages?Ipek Baris Schlicht, Zhixue Zhao, Burcu Sayin, Lucie Flek and Paolo Rosso

Session 2

Tuesday 8th April | 16.30-18.00 | Cloister – IMT Campus

Gradual Negative Matching for LLM UnlearningHrishikesh Kulkarni, Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder
Towards Interpretable Radiology Report Generation via Concept Bottlenecks using a Multi-Agentic RAGHasan Md Tusfiqur Alam, Devansh Srivastav, Md Abdul Kadir and Daniel Sonntag
Investigating the Performance of Dense Retrievers for Queries with Numerical ConditionsHaruki Fujimaki and Makoto P. Kato
Efficient and Effective Conversational Search with Tail Entity SelectionHai Dang Tran, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum
Token-Level Graphs for Short Text ClassificationGregor Donabauer and Udo Kruschwitz
Fact-Driven Health Information Retrieval: Integrating LLMs and Knowledge Graphs to Combat MisinformationGian Carlo Milanese, Georgios Peikos, Gabriella Pasi and Marco Viviani
FAIR-QR : Enhancing Fairness-aware Information Retrieval through Query RefinementFumian Chen and Hui Fang
A Comparative Analysis of Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Crowdsourcing for Fact-CheckingFrancesco Bombassei De Bona, David La Barbera, Stefano Mizzaro and Kevin Roitero
Exploring the Effectiveness of Multi-stage Fine-tuning for Cross-encoder Re-rankersFrancesca Pezzuti, Sean MacAvaney and Nicola Tonellotto
Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-rankingFerdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast and Matthias Hagen
E2Rank: Efficient and Effective Layer-wise RerankingCesare Campagnano, Antonio Mallia, Jack Pertschuk and Fabrizio Silvestri
The Impact of Incidental Multilingual Text on the Cross-Lingual Transferring in Monolingual RetrievalAndrew Liu, Edward Xu, Xinyu Zhang and Jimmy Lin
Benchmarking Prompt Sensitivity in Large Language ModelsAmirhosein Razavi, Mina Soltangheis, Negar Arabzadeh, Sara Salamat, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
Benchmark Creation for Narrative Knowledge Delta Extraction Tasks: Can LLMs Help?Alaa El-Ebshihy, Annisa Maulida Ningtyas, Florina Piroi and Andreas Rauber
Inducing Diversity in Differentiable Search IndexingAbhijeet Phatak, Jayant Sachdev, Sean D Rosario, Swati Kirti and Chittaranjan Tripathy
Counterfactual Query Rewriting to Use Historical Relevance FeedbackJüri Keller, Maik Fröbe, Gijs Hendriksen, Daria Alexander, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen and Philipp Schaer