Matthias Hagen

The computational costs of the transformer-based multi-vector retrieval model ColBERT depend on the number of vectors used to represent queries and documents. Common strategies to lower the costs thus prune the vectors to a fixed number or relative to the sequence length. We compare standard prun...

Conversational search systems are typically evaluated using a fixed reference collection of conversations or through user studies with a live system. However, fixed-reference conversations can cover only a few plausible conversations, and user studies are costly, time-consuming, and often hard to...