Liu Yang

According to our database, Liu Yang authored at least 42 papers between 2013 and 2021.

Collaborative distances:

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2021

Privacy-Adaptive BERT for Natural Language Understanding.

Chen Qu, Weize Kong, Liu Yang, Mingyang Zhang, Michael Bendersky, Marc Najork

CoRR, 2021

Passage Retrieval for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering.

Chen Qu, Hamed Zamani, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Erik G. Learned-Miller

Proceedings of the SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021

Weakly-Supervised Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering.

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Kalpesh Krishna, Mohit Iyyer

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2021

Natural Language Understanding with Privacy-Preserving BERT.

Chen Qu, Weize Kong, Liu Yang, Mingyang Zhang, Michael Bendersky, Marc Najork

Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021

Learning to Expand: Reinforced Response Expansion for Information-seeking Conversations.

Haojie Pan, Cen Chen, Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feng Ji, Jun Huang

Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021

2020

A Deep Look into neural ranking models for information retrieval.

Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Liang Pang, Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Hamed Zamani, Chen Wu, W. Bruce Croft, Xueqi Cheng

Inf. Process. Manag., 2020

Learning to Expand: Reinforced Pseudo-relevance Feedback Selection for Information-seeking Conversations.

Haojie Pan, Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feng Ji, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen

CoRR, 2020

DiPair: Fast and Accurate Distillation for Trillion-Scale Text Matching and Pair Modeling.

Jiecao Chen, Liu Yang, Karthik Raman, Michael Bendersky, Jung-Jung Yeh, Yun Zhou, Marc Najork, Danyang Cai, Ehsan Emadzadeh

CoRR, 2020

Match²: A Matching over Matching Model for Similar Question Identification.

Zizhen Wang, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Liu Yang, Ruqing Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng, Hui Jiang, Xiaozhao Wang

CoRR, 2020

Beyond 512 Tokens: Siamese Multi-depth Transformer-based Hierarchical Encoder for Document Matching.

Liu Yang, Mingyang Zhang, Cheng Li, Michael Bendersky, Marc Najork

CoRR, 2020

IART: Intent-aware Response Ranking with Transformers in Information-seeking Conversation Systems.

Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Cen Chen, Jiafeng Guo, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Haiqing Chen

Proceedings of the WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020, 2020

Match²: A Matching over Matching Model for Similar Question Identification.

Zizhen Wang, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Liu Yang, Ruqing Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng, Hui Jiang, Xiaozhao Wang

Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering.

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, Mohit Iyyer

Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020

DiPair: Fast and Accurate Distillation for Trillion-ScaleText Matching and Pair Modeling.

Jiecao Chen, Liu Yang, Karthik Raman, Michael Bendersky, Jung-Jung Yeh, Yun Zhou, Marc Najork, Danyang Cai, Ehsan Emadzadeh

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

Beyond 512 Tokens: Siamese Multi-depth Transformer-based Hierarchical Encoder for Long-Form Document Matching.

Liu Yang, Mingyang Zhang, Cheng Li, Michael Bendersky, Marc Najork

Proceedings of the CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2020

2019

Learning to Selectively Transfer: Reinforced Transfer Learning for Deep Text Matching.

Chen Qu, Feng Ji, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Zhiyu Min, Haiqing Chen, Jun Huang, W. Bruce Croft

Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2019

BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering.

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Mohit Iyyer

Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019

Sentence Retrieval for Entity List Extraction with a Seed, Context, and Topic.

Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, John Foley, Liu Yang, James Allan

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019

Attentive History Selection for Conversational Question Answering.

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Yongfeng Zhang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Mohit Iyyer

Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2019

A Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Neural Conversation Model.

Liu Yang, Junjie Hu, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Jianfeng Gao, W. Bruce Croft, Xiaodong Liu, Yelong Shen, Jingjing Liu

Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2019

User Intent Prediction in Information-seeking Conversations.

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Johanne R. Trippas, Minghui Qiu

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2019

Answer Interaction in Non-factoid Question Answering Systems.

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Falk Scholer, Yongfeng Zhang

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2019

2018

Transfer Learning for Context-Aware Question Matching in Information-seeking Conversations in E-commerce.

Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feng Ji, Weipeng Zhao, Wei Zhou, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Wei Lin

CoRR, 2018

Response Ranking with Deep Matching Networks and External Knowledge in Information-seeking Conversation Systems.

Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Jiafeng Guo, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen

Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations.

Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Johanne R. Trippas, Yongfeng Zhang, Minghui Qiu

Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

WikiPassageQA: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Non-factoid Answer Passage Retrieval.

Daniel Cohen, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft

Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

Towards Conversational Search and Recommendation: System Ask, User Respond.

Yongfeng Zhang, Xu Chen, Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft

Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018

Transfer Learning for Context-Aware Question Matching in Information-seeking Conversations in E-commerce.

Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feng Ji, Wei Zhou, Jun Huang, Haiqing Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Wei Lin

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

2017

Neural Matching Models for Question Retrieval and Next Question Prediction in Conversation.

Liu Yang, Hamed Zamani, Yongfeng Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft

CoRR, 2017

Characterizing and Predicting Enterprise Email Reply Behavior.

Liu Yang, Susan T. Dumais, Paul N. Bennett, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017

2016

Improving Language Estimation with the Paragraph Vector Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval.

Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft

Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Analysis of the Paragraph Vector Model for Information Retrieval.

Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2016

Modeling User Interests for Zero-Query Ranking.

Liu Yang, Qi Guo, Yang Song, Sha Meng, Milad Shokouhi, Kieran McDonald, W. Bruce Croft

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval.

Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Falk Scholer

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

aNMM: Ranking Short Answer Texts with Attention-Based Neural Matching Model.

Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft

Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

2014

An Integrated Model for User Attribute Discovery: A Case Study on Political Affiliation Identification.

Swapna Gottipati, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feida Zhu, Jing Jiang

Proceedings of the Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2014

Shell Miner: Mining Organizational Phrases in Argumentative Texts in Social Media.

Jianguang Du, Jing Jiang, Liu Yang, Dandan Song, Lejian Liao

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2014

Generating Supplementary Travel Guides from Social Media.

Liu Yang, Jing Jiang, Lifu Huang, Minghui Qiu, Lizi Liao

Proceedings of the COLING 2014, 2014

2013

Predicting User's Political Party Using Ideological Stances.

Swapna Gottipati, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feida Zhu, Jing Jiang

Proceedings of the Social Informatics - 5th International Conference, 2013

Mining User Relations from Online Discussions using Sentiment Analysis and Probabilistic Matrix Factorization.

Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Jing Jiang

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2013

CQArank: jointly model topics and expertise in community question answering.

Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Swapna Gottipati, Feida Zhu, Jing Jiang, Huiping Sun, Zhong Chen

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013

Modeling interaction features for debate side clustering.

Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Jing Jiang

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2013