Yashar Moshfeghi

Current Information Retrieval (IR) systems, including conversational IR paradigms enhanced by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), assume that users can formulate coherent queries and reliably interpret retrieved information. In dementia care contexts, these assumptions fail: queries are unstabl...

Translating internal information needs into textual queries poses challenges for information retrieval, particularly for users with physical impairments or ill-defined search intentions. Brain Passage Retrieval (BPR) approaches map EEG signals directly to dense passage representations, bypassing...