Nicola Ferro

Continuation Methods and Curriculum Learning for Learning to Rank

2018

In this paper we explore the use of Continuation Methods and Curriculum Learning techniques in the area of Learning to Rank. The basic idea is to design the training process as a learning path across …

How Do You Test a Test?

2022 · Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

We examine three statistical significance tests -- a recently proposed ANOVA model and two baseline tests -- using a suite of measures to determine which is better suited for offline evaluation. We apply our analysis …

DECAF: A Modular and Extensible Conversational Search Framework

2023

The Conversational Search (CS) paradigm allows for an intuitive interaction between the user and the system through natural language sentences and it is increasingly being adopted in various scenarios. However, its widespread experimentation has led …