Publications

Training Curricula for Open Domain Answer Re-Ranking

In precision-oriented tasks like answer ranking, it is more important to rank many relevant answers highly than to retrieve all …

Expansion via Prediction of Importance with Contextualization

The identification of relevance with little textual context is a primary challenge in passage retrieval. We address this problem with a …

Efficient Document Re-Ranking for Transformers by Precomputing Term Representations

Deep pretrained transformer networks are effective at various ranking tasks, such as question answering and ad-hoc document ranking. …

Cache Optimization via Topics in Web Search Engines

International Application Number PCT/US19/31723, US Application Number 16/408,766, filed by Georgetown University on 10/ May 2019, assigned to Georgetown University on 10 December 2019.

Cache Optimization via Topics in Web Search Engines

US Application Number 16/654,725, filed by Georgetown University on 16 Oct 2019.