Publications

IN THE YEAR OF 2023

• Yixing Fan, Yubao Tang, Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo. Challenges and Advances in Generative Information Retrieval. The 22nd China National Conference on Computational Linguistics(CCL 2023). Harbin, China
• Yinqiong Cai, Keping Bi, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Wei Chen and Xueqi Cheng. L^2R: Lifelong Learning for First-stage Retrieval with Backward-Compatible Representations. 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023). Birmingham, UK. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 24%)
• Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Wei Chen, Yixing Fan and Xueqi Cheng. Continual Learning for Generative Retrieval over Dynamic Corpora. 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023). Birmingham, UK. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 24%)
• Yuan Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Wei Chen, Yixing Fan and Xueqi Cheng. Black-box Adversarial Attacks against Dense Retrieval Models: A Multi-view Contrastive Learning Method. 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023). Birmingham, UK. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 24%)
• Xiaojie Sun, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Xinyu Ma, Yixing Fan, Hongyu Shan, Qishen Zhang, and Zhongyi Liu. Pre-training with Aspect-Content Text Mutual Prediction for Multi-Aspect Dense Retrieval. 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023). Birmingham, UK. (Short Paper, Acceptance Rate = 27.4%)
• Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Yiqun Liu, Yixing Fan and Xueqi Cheng. A Unified Generative Retriever for Knowledge-Intensive Language Tasks via Prompt Learning. The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023). (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 20.1%)
• Yuan Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Wei Chen, Yixing Fan and Xueqi Cheng. Topic-oriented Adversarial Attacks against Black-box Neural Ranking Models. The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023). (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 20.1%)
• Yiyi Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo and Xueqi Cheng. Prompt Tuning with Contradictory Intentions for Sarcasm Recognition. The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023 Main). (Full Paper)

IN THE YEAR OF 2022

• Yuanzheng Wang, Xueqi Cheng, Yixing Fan*, Xiaofei Zhu, Huasheng Liang, Qiang Yan, and Jiafeng Guo. MGAD: Learning Descriptional Representation Distilled from Distributional Semantics for Unseen Entities . the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022). New Orleans, Louisiana (Oral Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 15%)
• Yuting Wang, Yiyi Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Yixing Fan and Jiafeng Guo. Euphemism Detection by Transformers and Relational Graph Attention Network. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FLP).
• Yixing Fan, Xiaohui Xie, Yinqiong Cai, Jia Chen, Xinyu Ma, Xiangsheng Li, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo. Pre-training Methods in Information Retrieval. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, Volume 16 Issue 3, Aug 2022, pp 178–317.
• Chen Wu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Yixing Fan, Xueqi Cheng. PRADA: Practical Black-Box Adversarial Attacks against Neural Ranking Models . ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Volume 41 Issue 4, April 2023, pp 1–27.
• Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Xueqi Cheng. GERE: Generative Evidence Retrieval for Fact Verification . The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2022). Virtual Event (Short Paper, Acceptance Rate = 24.7%) [code]
• Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Yixing Fan, Xueqi Cheng. Pre-train a Discriminative Text Encoder for Dense Retrieval via Contrastive Span Prediction . The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2022). Virtual Event (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 20%)
• Sihao Yu, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Yixing Fan, Zizhen Wang and Xueqi Cheng. A Re-Balancing Strategy for Class-Imbalanced Classification Based on Instance Difficulty . 2022 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2022). New Orleans, Louisiana (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 25.3%)
• Chen Wu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng. Are Neural Ranking Models Robust?. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 41, Issue 2, https://doi.org/10.1145/3534928, 21 December 2022.
• Jiafeng Guo, Yinqiong Cai, Yixing Fan, Fei Sun, Ruqing Zhang, Xueqi Cheng. Semantic Models for the First-stage Retrieval: A Comprehensive Review. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 40, Issue 4, https://doi.org/10.1145/3486250, 24 March 2022.

IN THE YEAR OF 2021

• Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng. FedMatch: Federated Learning Over Heterogeneous Question Answering Data. 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2021). Queensland, Australia, November 2021 (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 21%)
• Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Lu Chen, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng. A Review on Question Generation from Natural Language Text. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 40, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1145/3468889, 08 September 2021.
• Yinqiong Cai, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng. A Discriminative Semantic Ranker for Question Retrieval. The 7th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR2021), Pages: 256-260, Published: 31 August 2021.
• Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Yixing Fan, Xiang Ji, and Xueqi Cheng. B-PROP: Bootstrapped Pre-training with Representative Words Prediction for Ad-hoc Retrieval. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2021). Virtual Event (Full Oral Paper, Acceptance Rate = 21%), Published: 11 July 2021.
• Chen Wu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, and Xueqi Cheng. Learning to Truncate Ranked Lists for Information Retrieval. The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2021). (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 21%)
• Lixin Su, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Jiangui Chen, Yanyan Lan, and Xueqi Cheng. Beyond Relevance: Trustworthy Answer Selection via Consensus Verification. The 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2021). Virtual Event (Full Oral Paper, Acceptance Rate = 18.6%), Published: 08 March 2021.
• Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Yixing Fan, Xiang Ji, and Xueqi Cheng. PROP: Pre-training with Representative Words Prediction for Ad-hoc Retrieval. The 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2021). Virtual Event (Full Oral Paper, Acceptance Rate = 18.6%), Published: 08 March 2021.
• Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Xinyu Ma, Ruqing Zhang, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng. A Linguistic Study on Relevance Modeling in Information Retrieval. 30th The Web Conference (WebConf2021). Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Full Paper, Acceptance Rate = 20.6%), Published: 03 June 2021.

IN THE YEAR OF 2020

• Xingchen Deng, Lei Zhang, Yixing Fan, Long Bai, Jiafeng Guo, Pengfei Wang. Bidirectional Dependency-Guided Attention for Relation Extraction. Proceedings of The 12th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 129:129-144, 2020.
• Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng. Query Understanding via Intent Description Generation. The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2020), (Full Oral Paper, Acceptance Rate = 21%).
• Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Fan Yixing, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng. Continual Domain Adaptation for Machine Reading Comprehension. The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2020), (Full Oral Paper, Acceptance Rate = 21%).
• Zizhen Wang, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Liu Yang, Ruqing Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng, Hui Jiang and Xiaozhao Wang. Match^2: A Matching over Matching Model for Similar Question Identification. The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Xi'An, China (SIGIR 2020), (Full Oral Paper, Acceptance Rate = 26%).
• Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, and Xueqi Cheng. Dual-factor Generation Model for Conversation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS ACCEPTED).
• Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, and Xueqi Cheng. Structure Learning for Headline Generation. The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), (Full Oral Paper, Oral Acceptance Rate = 5.87%).
• Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng. Label Distribution Augmented Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Reading Comprehension. The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2020), (Full Oral Paper, Oral Acceptance Rate = 14.8%).

IN THE YEAR OF 2019

• Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng. Understanding and Improving Neural Ranking Models From a Term Dependence View. The 15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS-19).
• Xiangbin Meng, Pengfei Wang, Haoran Yan, Liutong Xu, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan. Multi-Graph Convolution Network with Jump Connection for Event Detection IEEE 31th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2019, November 4-6, 2019, Portland, Oregon. IEEE 2019.
• Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Xiang Ji, Xueqi Cheng. MatchZoo: A Learning, Practicing, and Developing System for Neural Text Matching SIGIR'19: Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
• Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng. Outline Generation: Understanding the Inherent Content Structure of Documents. Proceeding SIGIR'19 Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
• Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng. Controlling Risk of Web Question Answering. Proceeding SIGIR'19 Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
• Sihao Yu, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng. Multi Classifier Ensemble Algorithm Based on Knowledge-Line Memory (CCIR 2019, Best Paper Award).
• Zizhen Wang Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng. Enhanced Duplicate Question Detection Model with Answer Information (CCIR 2019).
• Haoda Yuan, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng. Hierarchical BERT Method for Long Text Classification (CCIR 2019).
• Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng. Label-Enhanced Reading Comprehension Model (CCIR 2019).
• Yixing Fan, Qingyao Ai, Zhaochun Ren, Liangjie Hong, Dawei Yin, Jiafeng Guo. DAPA: The WSDM 2019 Workshop on Deep Matching in Practical Applications Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019), Melbourne VIC, Australia. (WSDM 2019).
• Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Liang Pang, Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Hamed Zamani, Chen Wu, W Bruce Croft, Xueqi Cheng. A Deep Look into Neural Ranking Models for Information Retrieval Information Processing and Management 57 (2020) 102067 (IPM 2019)
• Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Ruqing Zhang, Xueqi Cheng. An Adaptive Framework for Conversational Question Answering Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

IN THE YEAR OF 2018

• Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Huanhuan Cao, and Xueqi Cheng. Question Headline Generation for News Articles. the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Torino, Italy. (CIKM 2018).
• Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Chengxiang Zhai, and Xueqi Cheng. Modeling Diverse Relevance Patterns in Ad-hoc Retrieval. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor Michigan, U.S.A. (SIGIR 2018).
• Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng. Learning to Control the Specificity in Neural Response Generation. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia (ACL 2018).
• Tonglei Guo, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng. A Comparison Between Term-Based and Embedding-Based Methods for Initial Retrieval. Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11168).
• Zhou Yang, Qingfeng Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Xiaofei Zhu, Yanyan Lan, Yue Wang, and Xueqi Cheng. A Deep Top-K Relevance Matching Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval. Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11168).
• Yan Xiao, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng. Beyond Precision: A Study on Recall of Initial Retrieval with Neural Representations. arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10869 (2018).

IN THE YEAR OF 2017

• Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Liang Pang and Xueqi Cheng. Learning Visual Features from Snapshots for Web Search. Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Singapore. (<Best Full Paper Runner-up)
• Yixing Fan, Liang Pang, Jianpeng Hou, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng. MatchZoo: A Toolkit for Deep Text Matching. Neu-IR: The SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, Tokyo, 2017. [code]
• Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng. A Context-aware Deep Sentence Matching Model. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Volume 31, 2017.
• Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng. Academic Acess Data Analysis for Literature Recommendation. Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series, LNCS, volume 10390; pp 42-54; 21 October 2017.

IN THE YEAR OF 2016

• Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Qiqing Yao, W. Bruce Croft. A Deep Relevance Matching Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval, the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, USA. [code, slides, github]
• Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Qiqing Yao, W. Bruce Croft. Semantic Matching by Non-Linear Word Transportation for Information Retrieval, the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, USA. [code, slides]
• Hui Du, Yan Guo, Yixing Fan, Jin Zhang, Zhihua Yu, Xueqi Cheng. <a target="new", href="papers/2016/JCIP0.pdf">Calculation and Prediction of Topic Popularity Based on Causal Model</a>. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Volume 30, 2016.