Arjen P. de Vries

Complex information needs may involve set-compositional queries using conjunction, disjunction, and exclusion, yet it remains unclear whether current retrieval paradigms genuinely satisfy such constraints or exploit `semantic shortcuts'. We conduct a reproducibility study to benchmark major retri...

Query-Specific Document and Entity Representations (QDER) has shown state-of-the-art effectiveness on multiple information retrieval benchmarks. This work attempts to reproduce this promising approach. In an initial attempt, we were unable to find results that resemble the convincing effects meas...