Investigating the case of weak baselines in Ad-hoc Retrieval and Question Answering

Weak baselines have been present in Information Retrieval (IR) for<br/>decades. They have been associated with IR progress stagnation, baseline<br/>selection bias to publish results more readily, and models’ effectiveness<br/>reproducibility issues that hinder the validation of results by independent<br/>research teams. Weak baselines have been...

MANtIS: a novel information seeking dialogues dataset

Nowadays, most users access the web through search engine portals. However, information needs can often be ill-defined or too broad to be solvable by a list of results the user has to scroll through, which implies that he is most likely required to refine the need by himself to reach the desired result. In recent years, researchers have...