Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems
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Who Gets to be an Expert? The Hidden Bias in Expert Finding
Proceedings of the 2025 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region
2025
Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
2025
Say the Task, Build the Team: Prompt-Based Team Formation
International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
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LLM-as-a-Judge in Entity Retrieval: Assessing Explicit and Implicit Relevance
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
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Gender disentangled representation learning in neural rankers
Machine Learning
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Datasets for Supervised Adversarial Attacks on Neural Rankers
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Bias-Aware Curriculum Sampling For Fair Ranking
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Benchmarking prompt sensitivity in large language models
European Conference on Information Retrieval
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Attrition risk modeling during a customer's journey: a predictive analytics approach
Journal of Marketing Analytics
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2024
Learning from Yesterday: Predicting early-stage startup success for accelerators through content and cohort dynamics
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It Takes a Team to Triumph: Collaborative Expert Finding in Community QA Networks
Proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region
2024
Enhanced Retrieval Effectiveness Through Selective Query Generation
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
2023
Understanding and mitigating gender bias in information retrieval systems
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
2023
TEAM DISCOVERY FOR COMMUNITY-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS
US Patent App. 17/390,896
2023
Neural disentanglement of query difficulty and semantics
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
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Learning query-space document representations for high-recall retrieval
European Conference on Information Retrieval
2023
Embedding-based team formation for community question answering
Information Sciences
2023
EAGER: Explainable question answering using knowledge graphs
Proceedings of the 6th Joint Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA)
2023
Don't Raise Your Voice, Improve Your Argument: Learning to Retrieve Convincing Arguments
European Conference on Information Retrieval
2023
De-biasing relevance judgements for fair ranking
European Conference on Information Retrieval
2023
Chapter Enhancing Disaster Resilience Studies: Leveraging Linked Data and Natural Language Processing for Consistent Open-Ended Interviews
Firenze University Press
2023
A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN AND RESEARCH TAXONOMY OF HOMOPHILY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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The trends of sustainability in the luxury fashion industry: A Triple Bottom Line analysis
Journal of Global Fashion Marketing
2022
Social influence-based contrast language analysis framework for clinical decision support systems
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Social influence-based contrast language analysis framework for clinical decision support systems
Decision Support Systems
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How Well We Know Wellness: Closing the Gap on Wellness Program Research in the Workplace
Academy of Management Proceedings
2022
Gender fairness in information retrieval systems
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
2022
Fine-Tuning Dependencies with Parameters
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
2022
Fine-Tuning Dependencies with Parameters
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
2022
Feature-based question routing in community question answering platforms
Information Sciences
2022
Bias-aware Fair Neural Ranking for Addressing Stereotypical Gender Biases
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
2022
An automated mobile app labeling framework based on primary motivations for smartphone use
International Journal of Web Information Systems
2022
Addressing gender-related performance disparities in neural rankers
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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A Neural Approach to Forming Coherent Teams in Collaboration Networks
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
2022
A Neural Approach to Forming Coherent Teams in Collaboration Networks
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
2022
A Light-Weight Strategy for Restraining Gender Biases in Neural Rankers
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
2022
A Light-Weight Strategy for Restraining Gender Biases in Neural Rankers
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
2021
RW-Team: Robust Team Formation using Random Walk
Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management
2021
Query Performance Prediction Through Retrieval Coherency
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
2021
OpenAttHetRL: An Open Source Toolkit for Attributed Heterogeneous Network Representation Learning
Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management
2021
On the orthogonality of bias and utility in ad hoc retrieval
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2021
Matches made in heaven: Toolkit and large-scale datasets for supervised query reformulation
Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management
2021
Leveraging non-respondent data in customer satisfaction modeling
Journal of Business Research
2021
Exploring Gender Biases in Information Retrieval Relevance Judgement Datasets
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
2021
Collaborative experts discovery in social coding platforms
Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on information & knowledge management
2021
Collaborative experts discovery in social coding platforms
Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on information & knowledge management
2021
A non-factoid question answering system for prior art search
Expert Systems with Applications
2020
Time-based gap analysis of cybersecurity trends in academic and digital media
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
2020
Robust keyword search in large attributed graphs
Information Retrieval Journal
2020
Paywall policy learning in digital news media
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
2020
Effective Keyword Search over Weighted Graphs
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
2020
Compact group discovery in attributed graphs and social networks
Information Processing & Management
2020
A big data analytics framework for detecting user-level depression from social networks
International Journal of Information Management
2019
Mining and exploration of attributed graphs: theory and applications
Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering
2019
A utility-based news recommendation system
Decision Support Systems
2019
A Survey of High Utility Pattern Mining Algorithms for Big Data
High-Utility Pattern Mining: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
2018
2018
Adaptive paywall mechanism for digital news media
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
2017
Time-aware subscription prediction model for user acquisition in digital news media
Proceedings of the 2017 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
2017
Mining significant high utility gene regulation sequential patterns
BMC Systems Biology
2017
2017
Efficiently mining high utility sequential patterns in static and streaming data
Intelligent Data Analysis
2016
Top-k utility-based gene regulation sequential pattern discovery
2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
2016
Mining High Utility Patterns Over Data Streams
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2016
Distributed and parallel high utility sequential pattern mining
2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
2016
Authority-based team discovery in social networks
arXiv preprint
2016
Authority-based team discovery in social networks
EDBT (20th International Conference on Extending Database Technology)
2015
Mining high utility sequential patterns from evolving data streams
Proceedings of the ASE BigData & SocialInformatics 2015
2015
Mining high utility sequential patterns from evolving data streams
Proceedings of the ASE BigData & SocialInformatics 2015
2015
Memory-bounded high utility sequential pattern mining over data streams
Technical Report EECS-2015-04, York University
2014
Two-phase pareto set discovery for team formation in social networks
2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT)
2014
Mining top-k high utility patterns over data streams
Information Sciences
2014
2014
2013
Signal detection in genome sequences using complexity based features
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
2013
Mining top-k high utility patterns over data streams
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University
2013
Finding affordable and collaborative teams from a network of experts
Proceedings of the 2013 SIAM international conference on data mining
2013
Affordable and collaborative team formation in an expert network
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Technical Report CSE-2013
2012
Efficient bi-objective team formation in social networks
Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
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