Conference Papers

ED2LM: Encoder-Decoder to Language Model for Faster Document Re-ranking Inference
Hui, Kai, Honglei Zhuang, Tao Chen, Zhen Qin, Jing Lu, Dara Bahri, Ji Ma, Jai Gupta, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Yi Tay, Donald Metzler
in ACL: Findings 2022
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Incorporating Ranking Context for End-to-End BERT Re-ranking
Xiaoyang Chen, Hui, Kai, Ben He, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Zheng Ye
in ECIR 2022
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Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index
Yi Tay, Vinh Q Tran, Mostafa Dehghani, Jianmo Ni, Dara Bahri, Harsh Mehta, Zhen Qin, Hui, Kai, Zhe Zhao, Jai Gupta, Tal Schuster, William W Cohen, Donald Metzler
arXiv preprint
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Ext5: Towards extreme multi-task scaling for transfer learning
Vamsi Aribandi, Yi Tay, Tal Schuster, Jinfeng Rao, Huaixiu Steven Zheng, Sanket Vaibhav Mehta, Honglei Zhuang, Vinh Q. Tran, Dara Bahri, Jianmo Ni, Jai Gupta, Hui, Kai, Sebastian Ruder, Donald Metzler
in ICLR 2022
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Question Answering using Web Lists
A. R. Katti, Hui, Kai, A. de Gispert, and H. Fuerstenau
in CIKM 2021 (Short paper)
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Contextualized Offline Relevance Weighting for Efficient and Effective Neural Retrieval
X. Chen, B. He, Hui, Kai, Y. Wang, L. Sun, and Y. Sun
in SIGIR 2021 (Best short paper award)
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Simplified TinyBERT: Knowledge Distillation for Document Retrieval
X. Chen, B. He, Hui, Kai, L. Sun, and Y. Sun
in ECIR 2021 (Short paper)
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BERT-QE: Contextualized Query Expansion for Document Re-ranking
Z. Zheng, Hui, Kai, B. He, X. Han, L. Sun, and A. Yates
in EMNLP 2020: Findings
[PDF] [Code]

Content-Based Weak Supervision for Ad-Hoc Re-Ranking
S. MacAvaney, A. Yates, Hui, Kai, and O. Frieder
in SIGIR 19 (Short paper)
[PDF]

Co-PACRR: A Context-Aware Neural IR Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval
Hui, Kai, A. Yates, K. Berberich, and G. de Melo
in WSDM 18
[PDF] [Poster] [Code]

NPRF: A Neural Pseudo Relevance Feedback Framework for Ad-hoc Information Retrieval
C. Li, Y. Sun, B. He, L. Wang, Hui, Kai, A. Yates, L. Sun, and J. Xu
in EMNLP 2018
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TDNN: A Two-stage Deep Neural Network for Prompt-independent Automated Essay Scoring
C. Jin, B. He, Hui, Kai, and L. Sun
in ACL 2018
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Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval
S. MacAvaney, A. Yates, A. Cohan, L. Soldaini, Hui, Kai, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder
in SIGIR 2018 (Short paper)
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PACRR: A Position-Aware Neural IR Model for Relevance Matching
Hui, Kai, A. Yates, K. Berberich, and G. de Melo
in EMNLP 17
[PDF] [Slide] [Code]

Position-Aware Representations for Relevance Matching in Neural Information Retrieval
Hui, Kai, A. Yates, K. Berberich, and G. de Melo
in WWW 17 (Poster)
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Transitivity, Time Consumption, and Quality of Preference Judgments in Crowdsourcing
Hui, Kai and K. Berberich
in ECIR 2017
[PDF] [Slide] [Poster] [Data]

Contextualized PACRR for Complex Answer Retrieval
S. MacAvaney, A. Yates, Hui, Kai
in TREC 2017
[PDF]

Dealing with Incomplete Judgments in Cascade Measures
Hui, Kai, K. Berberich, and I. Mele
in ICTIR 2017
[PDF] [Slide]

A document-based neural relevance model for effective clinical decision support
Y. Ran, B. He, Hui, Kai, J. Xu, and L. Sun
in BIBM 2017
[PDF]

Low-Cost Preference Judgment via Ties
Hui, Kai and K. Berberich
in ECIR 17 (Short Paper)
[PDF] [Poster]

Merge-Tie-Judge: Low-Cost Preference Judgments with Ties
Hui, Kai and K. Berberich
in ICTIR 2017 (Short paper)
[PDF] [Poster]

Cluster Hypothesis in Low-Cost IR Evaluation with Different Document Representations
Hui, Kai and K. Berberich
in WWW 16 (Poster)
[PDF] [Poster]

Selective Labeling and Incomplete Label Mitigation for Low-Cost Evaluation
Hui, Kai and K. Berberich
in SPIRE 15
[PDF] [Slide]

Sponsored Search Ad Selection by Keyword Structure Analysis
Hui, Kai, B. Gao, B. He, and T. Luo
in ECIR 2013
[PDF] [Slide]

Relevance weighting using within-document term statistics
Hui, Kai, B. He, T. Luo, and B. Wang
in CIKM 2011 (Short paper)
[PDF] [Slide]

A Comparative Study of Pseudo Relevance Feedback for Ad-hoc Retrieval
Hui, Kai, B. He, T. Luo, and B. Wang
in ICTIR 2011 (Poster)
[PDF]

GUCAS at TREC 2011 Microblog Track
X. Zhang, Hui, Kai, B. He, T. Luo
in TREC 2011

Workshop Papers

Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval
S. MacAvaney, A. Yates, A. Cohan, L. Soldaini, Hui, Kai, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder
in ProfS/KG4IR/Data:Search@SIGIR 2018
[PDF]

An Approach for Weakly-Supervised Deep Information Retrieval
S. MacAvaney, Hui, Kai, and A. Yates
in Neu-IR 17 Workshop at SIGIR 2017
[PDF]

RE-PACRR: A Context and Density-Aware Neural Information Retrieval Model
Hui, Kai, A. Yates, K. Berberich and G. de Melo
in Neu-IR 17 Workshop at SIGIR 2017
[PDF] [Slide]

DE-PACRR: Exploring Layers Inside the PACRR Model
A. Yates and Hui, Kai
in Neu-IR 17 Workshop at SIGIR 2017
[PDF]

Towards Robust & Reusable Evaluation for Novelty & Diversity
Hui, Kai
in PIKM@CIKM 2014
[PDF] [Slide]

Journal Papers

Contextualized query expansion via unsupervised chunk selection for text retrieval
Z. Zheng, Hui, Kai, B. He, X. Han, L. Sun, and A. Yates
Information Processing & Management, 2021
[PDF]

Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval
S. MacAvaney, A. Yates, A. Cohan, L. Soldaini, Hui, Kai, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder
Information Retrieval Journal, 2019
[PDF]

Neural relevance model using similarities with elite documents for effective clinical decision support
Y. Ran, B. He, Hui, Kai, J. Xu, and L. Sun
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 2018

Dissertation

Automatic methods for low-cost evaluation and position-aware models for neural information retrieval
Kai Hui
PhD Thesis, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2017
[PDF] [Slide]