Publications

Conference Papers

  • Is Relevance Propagated from Retriever to Generator in RAG?
    Fangzheng Tian, Debasis Ganguly, Craig Macdonald
    Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, {ECIR} 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6-10, 2025, Proceedings, Part {I}
  • One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Predicting the Number of Examples for In-Context Learning
    Manish Chandra, Debasis Ganguly, Iadh Ounis
    Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, {ECIR} 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6-10, 2025, Proceedings, Part {I}Best paper award 🏆
  • Exploiting Positional Bias for Query-Agnostic Generative Content in Search
    Andrew Parry, Sean MacAvaney, Debasis Ganguly
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, {ACL} 2024, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting, August 11-16, 2024
  • “The Absence of Evidence is Not the Evidence of Absence”: Fact Verification via Information Retrieval-Based In-Context Learning
    Payel Santra, Madhusudan Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Sudip Kumar Naskar
    Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery - 26th International Conference, DaWaK 2024, Naples, Italy, August 26-28, 2024, Proceedings
  • A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney, Derek Greene
    Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, {ECIR} 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part {II}
  • Evaluating the Explainability of Neural Rankers
    Saran Pandian, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney
    Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, {ECIR} 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24-28, 2024, Proceedings, Part {IV}
  • Few-shot Prompting for Pairwise Ranking: An Effective Non-Parametric Retrieval Model
    Nilanjan Sinhababu, Andrew Parry, Debasis Ganguly, Debasis Samanta, Pabitra Mitra
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: {EMNLP} 2024, Miami, Florida, USA, November 12-16, 2024
  • Chronological Evaluation of Novel Methodology Extraction from {AI} Literature
    Madhusudan Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Sudip Kumar Naskar
    Proceedings of the 24th {ACM/IEEE} Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, {JCDL} 2024, Hong Kong, China, December 16-20, 2024
  • “In-Context Learning” or: How {I} learned to stop worrying and love “Applied Information Retrieval”
    Andrew Parry, Debasis Ganguly, Manish Chandra
    Proceedings of the 47th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
  • Detecting and Explaining Emotions in Video Advertisements
    Joachim Vanneste, Manisha Verma, Debasis Ganguly
    Proceedings of the 47th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
  • ‘Choose your Data Wisely’: Active Learning based Selection with Multi-Objective Optimisation for Mitigating Stereotypes
    Manish Chandra, Debasis Ganguly, Tulika Saha, Iadh Ounis
    Proceedings of the 32nd {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, {CIKM} 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023
  • Extracting Methodology Components from {AI} Research Papers: {A} Data-driven Factored Sequence Labeling Approach
    Madhusudan Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Sudip Kumar Naskar
    Proceedings of the 32nd {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, {CIKM} 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023
  • Workshop On Large Language Models’ Interpretability and Trustworthiness {(LLMIT)
    Tulika Saha, Debasis Ganguly, Sriparna Saha, Prasenjit Mitra
    Proceedings of the 32nd {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, {CIKM} 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023
  • On the Feasibility and Robustness of Pointwise Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Derek Greene, Mandar Mitra
    Proceedings of the The {QPP++} 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks Workshop co-located with The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval {(} ECIR), Dublin, Ireland, April 6th, 2023
  • Combining Word Embedding Interactions and {LETOR} Feature Evidences for Supervised {QPP
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Josiane Mothe, Md. Zia Ullah
    Proceedings of the The {QPP++} 2023: Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks Workshop co-located with The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval {(} ECIR), Dublin, Ireland, April 6th, 2023
  • Automatic Videography Generation from Audio Tracks
    Debasis Ganguly, Andrew Parker, Stergious Aji
    Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, {ECIR} 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part {III}
  • Legal {IR} and {NLP:} The History, Challenges, and State-of-the-Art
    Debasis Ganguly, Jack G. Conrad, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh, Pawan Goyal, Paheli Bhattacharya, Shubham Kumar Nigam, Shounak Paul
    Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, {ECIR} 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part {III}
  • Indian Language Summarization at {FIRE} 2023
    Shrey Satapara, Parth Mehta, Sandip Modha, Debasis Ganguly
    Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, {FIRE} 2023, Panjim, India, December 15-18, 2023
  • Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models: {A} Hands-On Tutorial
    Payel Santra, Madhusudan Ghosh, Shrimon Mukherjee, Debasis Ganguly, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Sudip Kumar Naskar
    Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, {FIRE} 2023, Panjim, India, December 15-18, 2023
  • Key Takeaways from the Second Shared Task on Indian Language Summarization {(ILSUM} 2023)
    Shrey Satapara, Parth Mehta, Sandip Modha, Debasis Ganguly
    Working Notes of {FIRE} 2023 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation {(FIRE-WN} 2023), Goa, India, December 15-18, 2023
  • LeDA: {A} System for Legal Data Annotation
    Subinay Adhikary, Dwaipayan Roy, Debasis Ganguly, Shouvik Kumar Guha, Kripabandhu Ghosh
    Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - {JURIX} 2023: The Thirty-sixth Annual Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 18-20 December 2023
  • Explain Like {I} am {BM25:} Interpreting a Dense Model’s Ranked-List with a Sparse Approximation
    Michael Llordes, Debasis Ganguly, Sumit Bhatia, Chirag Agarwal
    Proceedings of the 46th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023
  • Query-specific Variable Depth Pooling via Query Performance Prediction
    Debasis Ganguly, Emine Yilmaz
    Proceedings of the 46th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023
  • Unsupervised Query Performance Prediction for Neural Models with Pairwise Rank Preferences
    Ashutosh Singh, Debasis Ganguly, Suchana Datta, Craig MacDonald
    Proceedings of the 46th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023
  • Measuring and Comparing the Consistency of {IR} Models for Query Pairs with Similar and Different Information Needs
    Procheta Sen, Sourav Saha, Debasis Ganguly, Manisha Verma, Dwaipayan Roy
    Proceedings of the 31st {ACM} International Conference on Information {\&} Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17-21, 2022
  • Workshop on Proactive and Agent-Supported Information Retrieval {(PASIR)
    Gareth J. F. Jones, Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly, Emine Yilmaz
    Proceedings of the 31st {ACM} International Conference on Information {\&} Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17-21, 2022
  • On the Reproduciblity and Robustness of Query Performance Prediction Experiments - An Extended Abstract
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Mandar Mitra, Derek Greene
    Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe {(CIRCLE} 2022), Samatan, Gers, France, July 4-7, 2022
  • Relevance Model Augmented with Inter-Collection Co-occurrence Statistics for Ad-hoc Retrieval in Precision Medicine
    Sonal Mishra, Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly, Prasenjit Majumder
    Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe {(CIRCLE} 2022), Samatan, Gers, France, July 4-7, 2022
  • An Analysis of Variations in the Effectiveness of Query Performance Prediction
    Debasis Ganguly, Suchana Datta, Mandar Mitra, Derek Greene
    Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on {IR} Research, {ECIR} 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part {I}
  • “If you can’t beat them, join them”: {A} Word Transformation based Generalized Skip-gram for Embedding Compound Words
    Debasis Ganguly, Shripad Bhat, Chandan Biswas
    Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, {FIRE} 2022, Kolkata, India, December 9-13, 2022
  • A ‘Pointwise-Query, Listwise-Document’ based Query Performance Prediction Approach
    Suchana Datta, Sean MacAvaney, Debasis Ganguly, Derek Greene
    {SIGIR} ‘22: The 45th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022
  • Deep-QPP: {A} Pairwise Interaction-based Deep Learning Model for Supervised Query Performance Prediction
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Derek Greene, Mandar Mitra
    {WSDM} ‘22: The Fifteenth {ACM} International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event / Tempe, AZ, USA, February 21 - 25, 2022
  • Outcome Prediction from Behaviour Change Intervention Evaluations using a Combination of Node and Word Embedding
    Debasis Ganguly, Martin Gleize, Yufang Hou, Charles Jochim, Francesca Bonin, Alessandra Pascale, Pierpaolo Tommasi, Pol Mac Aonghusa, Robert West, Marie Johnston, Mike Kelly, Susan Michie
    {AMIA} 2021, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA, October 30, 2021 - November 3, 2021
  • Multi-objective Few-shot Learning for Fair Classification
    Ishani Mondal, Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly
    {CIKM} ‘21: The 30th {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021
  • TDMSci: {A} Specialized Corpus for Scientific Literature Entity Tagging of Tasks Datasets and Metrics
    Yufang Hou, Charles Jochim, Martin Gleize, Francesca Bonin, Debasis Ganguly
    Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, {EACL} 2021, Online, April 19 - 23, 2021
  • Overview of the Causality-driven Adhoc Information Retrieval {(CAIR)} task at {FIRE-2021
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Derek Greene
    {FIRE} 2021: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Virtual Event, India, December 13 - 17, 2021
  • Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search on Privacy-aware Encoding of User Locations to Identify Susceptible Infections in Simulated Epidemics
    Chandan Biswas, Debasis Ganguly, Ujjwal Bhattacharya
    {FIRE} 2021: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Virtual Event, India, December 13 - 17, 2021
  • Overview of the Causality-driven Adhoc Information Retrieval {(CAIR)} task at {FIRE-2021
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Derek Greene
    Working Notes of {FIRE} 2021 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Gandhinagar, India, December 13-17, 2021
  • Session details: Session 4A - Question Answering
    Debasis Ganguly
    {ICTIR} ‘21: The 2021 {ACM} {SIGIR} International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11, 2021
  • Effective Query Formulation in Conversation Contextualization: {A} Query Specificity-based Approach
    Dipasree Pal, Debasis Ganguly
    {ICTIR} ‘21: The 2021 {ACM} {SIGIR} International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11, 2021
  • NIP-GCN:} An Augmented Graph Convolutional Network with Node Interaction Patterns
    Manish Chandra, Debasis Ganguly, Pabitra Mitra, Bithika Pal, James Thomas
    {SIGIR} ‘21: The 44th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021
  • Overview of the Supporting and Understanding of Conversational Dialogues {(SUD)} Workshop
    Debasis Ganguly, Manisha Verma, Procheta Sen, Dipasree Pal, Gareth J. F. Jones
    {WSDM} ‘21, The Fourteenth {ACM} International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event, Israel, March 8-12, 2021
  • Towards Socially Responsible {AI:} Cognitive Bias-Aware Multi-Objective Learning
    Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly
    The Thirty-Fourth {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence, {AAAI} 2020, The Thirty-Second Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, {IAAI} 2020, The Tenth {AAAI} Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, {EAAI} 2020, New York, NY, USA, February 7-12, 2020
  • Where’s the Why? In Search of Chains of Causes for Query Events
    Suchana Datta, Derek Greene, Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Mandar Mitra
    Proceedings of The 28th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, December 7-8, 2020
  • Knowledge Extraction and Prediction from Behavior Science Randomized Controlled Trials: {A} Case Study in Smoking Cessation
    Francesca Bonin, Martin Gleize, Yufang Hou, Debasis Ganguly, Ailbhe Finnerty, Charles Jochim, Alessandra Pascale, Pierpaolo Tommasi, Pol Mac Aonghusa, Susan Michie
    {AMIA} 2020, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Virtual Event, USA, November 14-18, 2020
  • Retrievability based Document Selection for Relevance Feedback with Automatically Generated Query Variants
    Anirban Chakraborty, Debasis Ganguly, Owen Conlan
    {CIKM} ‘20: The 29th {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020
  • ALEX:} Active Learning based Enhancement of a Classification Model’s EXplainability
    Ishani Mondal, Debasis Ganguly
    {CIKM} ‘20: The 29th {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020
  • Overview of the Causality-driven Adhoc Information Retrieval {(CAIR)} task at {FIRE-2020
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Derek Greene, Charles Jochim, Francesca Bonin
    {FIRE} 2020: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Hyderabad, India, December 16-20, 2020
  • Overview of RCD-2020, the {FIRE-2020} track on Retrieval from Conversational Dialogues
    Debasis Ganguly, Dipasree Pal, Manisha Verma, Procheta Sen
    {FIRE} 2020: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Hyderabad, India, December 16-20, 2020
  • HBCP} Corpus: {A} New Resource for the Analysis of Behavioural Change Intervention Reports
    Francesca Bonin, Martin Gleize, Ailbhe Finnerty, Candice Moore, Charles Jochim, Emma Norris, Yufang Hou, Alison J. Wright, Debasis Ganguly, Emily Hayes, Silje Zink, Alessandra Pascale, Pol Mac Aonghusa, Susan Michie
    Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, {LREC} 2020, Marseille, France, May 11-16, 2020
  • Retrieving Potential Causes from a Query Event
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Francesca Bonin, Charles Jochim, Mandar Mitra
    Proceedings of the 43rd International {ACM} {SIGIR} conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020
  • Relevance Models for Multi-Contextual Appropriateness in Point-of-Interest Recommendation
    Anirban Chakraborty, Debasis Ganguly, Owen Conlan
    Proceedings of the 43rd International {ACM} {SIGIR} conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020
  • The Curious Case of {IR} Explainability: Explaining Document Scores within and across Ranking Models
    Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly, Manisha Verma, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 43rd International {ACM} {SIGIR} conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020
  • Identification of Tasks, Datasets, Evaluation Metrics, and Numeric Scores for Scientific Leaderboards Construction
    Yufang Hou, Charles Jochim, Martin Gleize, Francesca Bonin, Debasis Ganguly
    Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, {ACL} 2019, Florence, Italy, July 28- August 2, 2019, Volume 1: Long Papers
  • Privacy Preserving Approximate K-means Clustering
    Chandan Biswas, Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Ujjwal Bhattacharya
    Proceedings of the 28th {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, {CIKM} 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019
  • I-REX:} {A} Lucene Plugin for EXplainable {IR
    Dwaipayan Roy, Sourav Saha, Mandar Mitra, Bihan Sen, Debasis Ganguly
    Proceedings of the 28th {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, {CIKM} 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019
  • A Factored Relevance Model for Contextual Point-of-Interest Recommendation
    Anirban Chakraborty, Debasis Ganguly, Annalina Caputo, S{'{e}}amus Lawless
    Proceedings of the 2019 {ACM} {SIGIR} International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, {ICTIR} 2019, Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 2-5, 2019
  • Word-Node2Vec: Improving Word Embedding with Document-Level Non-Local Word Co-occurrences
    Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, {NAACL-HLT} 2019, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 2-7, 2019, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
  • LIRME:} Locally Interpretable Ranking Model Explanation
    Manisha Verma, Debasis Ganguly
    Proceedings of the 42nd International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2019, Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019
  • Using Word Embeddings for Information Retrieval: How Collection and Term Normalization Choices Affect Performance
    Dwaipayan Roy, Debasis Ganguly, Sumit Bhatia, Srikanta Bedathur, Mandar Mitra
    Proceedings of the 27th {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, {CIKM} 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018
  • Overview of the {CLEF} 2018 Personalised Information Retrieval Lab {(PIR-CLEF} 2018)
    Gabriella Pasi, Gareth J. F. Jones, Keith Curtis, Stefania Marrara, Camilla Sanvitto, Debasis Ganguly, Procheta Sen
    Working Notes of {CLEF} 2018 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Avignon, France, September 10-14, 2018
  • Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval at {CLEF} 2018 {(PIR-CLEF)
    Gabriella Pasi, Gareth J. F. Jones, Keith Curtis, Stefania Marrara, Camilla Sanvitto, Debasis Ganguly, Procheta Sen
    Experimental {IR} Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 9th International Conference of the {CLEF} Association, {CLEF} 2018, Avignon, France, September 10-14, 2018, Proceedings
  • Word Embedding based Semantic Cross-Lingual Document Alignment in Comparable Corpora
    Debasis Ganguly, Haithem Afli, Dwaipayan Roy
    Proceedings of the 10th annual meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, {FIRE} 2018, Gandhinagar, India, December 06-09, 2018
  • Unsupervised Information Extraction from Behaviour Change Literature
    Debasis Ganguly, L{'{e}}a A. Deleris, Pol Mac Aonghusa, Alison J. Wright, Ailbhe N. Finnerty, Emma Norris, Marta M. Marques, Susan Michie
    Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth - Proceedings of {MIE} 2018, Medical Informatics Europe, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 24-26, 2018
  • Decision Conversations Decoded
    L{'{e}}a A. Deleris, Debasis Ganguly, Killian Levacher, Martin Stephenson, Francesca Bonin
    Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, {NAACL-HLT} 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 2-4, 2018, Demonstrations
  • Tempo-Lexical Context Driven Word Embedding for Cross-Session Search Task Extraction
    Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, {NAACL-HLT} 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1-6, 2018, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
  • Procrastination is the Thief of Time: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Proactive Search Systems
    Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    The 41st International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research {\&} Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018
  • Contextual Word Embedding: {A} Case Study in Clustering Tweets about Emergency Situations
    Debasis Ganguly, Kripabandhu Ghosh
    Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018, {WWW} 2018, Lyon , France, April 23-27, 2018
  • WWW’18 Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness: Chairs’ Welcome {\&} Organization
    Marie{-}Francine Moens, Gareth J. F. Jones, Saptarshi Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Kripabandhu Ghosh
    Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018, {WWW} 2018, Lyon , France, April 23-27, 2018
  • Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval at {CLEF} 2017 {(PIR-CLEF):} Towards a Reproducible Evaluation Framework for {PIR
    Gabriella Pasi, Gareth J. F. Jones, Stefania Marrara, Camilla Sanvitto, Debasis Ganguly, Procheta Sen
    Working Notes of {CLEF} 2017 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14, 2017
  • Overview of the {CLEF} 2017 Personalised Information Retrieval Pilot Lab {(PIR-CLEF} 2017)
    Gabriella Pasi, Gareth J. F. Jones, Stefania Marrara, Camilla Sanvitto, Debasis Ganguly, Procheta Sen
    Experimental {IR} Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 8th International Conference of the {CLEF} Association, {CLEF} 2017, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14, 2017, Proceedings
  • Word Vector Compositionality based Relevance Feedback using Kernel Density Estimation
    Dwaipayan Roy, Debasis Ganguly, Mandar Mitra, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 25th {ACM} International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, {CIKM} 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 24-28, 2016
  • A Gamified Approach to Relevance Judgement
    Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Experimental {IR} Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 7th International Conference of the {CLEF} Association, {CLEF} 2016, {'{E}}vora, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings
  • Using WordNet for Query Expansion: {ADAPT} @ {FIRE} 2016 Microblog Track
    Wei Li, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Working notes of {FIRE} 2016 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Kolkata, India, December 7-10, 2016
  • Joint Estimation of Topics and Hashtag Relevance in Cross-Lingual Tweets
    Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 2016 {ACM} on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, {ICTIR} 2016, Newark, DE, USA, September 12- 6, 2016
  • Nearest Neighbour based Transformation Functions for Text Classification: {A} Case Study with StackOverflow
    Piyush Arora, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 2016 {ACM} on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, {ICTIR} 2016, Newark, DE, USA, September 12- 6, 2016
  • Developing a Dataset for Evaluating Approaches for Document Expansion with Images
    Debasis Ganguly, Iacer Calixto, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation {LREC} 2016, Portoro{\v{z}}, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016
  • A Laboratory-Based Method for the Evaluation of Personalised Search
    Camilla Sanvitto, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones, Gabriella Pasi
    Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, {EVIA} 2016, a Satellite Workshop of the {NTCIR-12} Conference, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, june 7, 2016
  • Retrievability of Code Mixed Microblogs
    Debasis Ganguly, Ayan Bandyopadhyay, Mandar Mitra, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 39th International {ACM} {SIGIR} conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} 2016, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016
  • Dublin City University and Partners’ Participation in the {INS} and {VTT} Tracks at TRECVid 2016
    Mark Marsden, Eva Mohedano, Kevin McGuinness, Andrea Calafell, Xavier Gir{'{o}}{-}i{-}Nieto, Noel E. O’Connor, Jiang Zhou, Lucas Azevedo, Tobias Daudert, Brian Davis, Manuela H{"{u}}rlimann, Haithem Afli, Jinhua Du, Debasis Ganguly, Wei Li, Andy Way, Alan F. Smeaton
    2016 {TREC} Video Retrieval Evaluation, {TRECVID} 2016, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 14-16, 2016
  • The Good, the Bad and their Kins: Identifying Questions with Negative Scores in StackOverflow
    Piyush Arora, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 2015 {IEEE/ACM} International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, {ASONAM} 2015, Paris, France, August 25 - 28, 2015
  • An Investigation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval for User-Generated Internet Video
    Ahmad Khwileh, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Experimental {IR} Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 6th International Conference of the {CLEF} Association, {CLEF} 2015, Toulouse, France, September 8-11, 2015, Proceedings
  • Context-driven Dimensionality Reduction for Clustering Text Documents
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 7th Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, {FIRE} 2015, Gandhinagar, India, December 4-6, 2015
  • Overview of the Automated Story Illustration Task at {FIRE} 2015
    Debasis Ganguly, Iacer Calixto, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Post Proceedings of the Workshops at the 7th Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Gandhinagar, India, December 4-6, 2015
  • Partially Labeled Supervised Topic Models for RetrievingSimilar Questions in {CQA} Forums
    Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, {ICTIR} 2015, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, September 27-30, 2015
  • Word Embedding based Generalized Language Model for Information Retrieval
    Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Mandar Mitra, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 38th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015
  • ADAPT.DCU} at {TREC} LiveQA: {A} Sentence Retrieval based Approach to Live Question Answering
    Dasha Bogdanova, Debasis Ganguly, Jennifer Foster, Ali Hosseinzadeh Vahid
    Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, {TREC} 2015, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 17-20, 2015
  • Automatic Prediction of Aesthetics and Interestingness of Text Passages
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    {COLING} 2014, 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference: Technical Papers, August 23-29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland
  • DCU@FIRE-2014: An Information Retrieval Approach for Source Code Plagiarism Detection
    Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, {FIRE} 2014, Bangalore, India, December 5-7, 2014
  • DCU@FIRE-2014: Fuzzy Queries with Rule-based Normalization for Mixed Script Information Retrieval
    Debasis Ganguly, Santanu Pal, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, {FIRE} 2014, Bangalore, India, December 5-7, 2014
  • Retrieval of similar chess positions
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    The 37th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} ‘14, Gold Coast , QLD, Australia - July 06 - 11, 2014
  • A Case Study in Decompounding for Bengali Information Retrieval
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization - 4th International Conference of the {CLEF} Initiative, {CLEF} 2013, Valencia, Spain, September 23-26, 2013. Proceedings
  • DCU@Morpheme Extraction Task of {FIRE-2012:} Rule-based Stemmers for Bengali and Hindi
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 5th 2013 Forum on Information Retrieval Evaluation, {FIRE} ‘13, New Delhi, India, December 4-6, 2013
  • An LDA-smoothed relevance model for document expansion: a case study for spoken document retrieval
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    The 36th International {ACM} {SIGIR} conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} ‘13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
  • TopicVis: a {GUI} for topic-based feedback and navigation
    Debasis Ganguly, Manisha Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    The 36th International {ACM} {SIGIR} conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, {SIGIR} ‘13, Dublin, Ireland - July 28 - August 01, 2013
  • Topical Relevance Model
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Information Retrieval Technology, 8th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, {AIRS} 2012, Tianjin, China, December 17-19, 2012. Proceedings - Best short paper award 🏆
  • DCU@INEX-2012: Exploring Sentence Retrieval for Tweet Contextualization
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    {CLEF} 2012 Evaluation Labs and Workshop, Online Working Notes, Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2012
  • Cross-Lingual Topical Relevance Models
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    {COLING} 2012, 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference: Technical Papers, 8-15 December 2012, Mumbai, India
  • Approximate Sentence Retrieval for Scalable and Efficient Example-Based Machine Translation
    Johannes Leveling, Debasis Ganguly, Sandipan Dandapat, Gareth J. F. Jones
    {COLING} 2012, 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference: Technical Papers, 8-15 December 2012, Mumbai, India
  • United we fall, divided we stand: a study of query segmentation and prf for patent prior art search
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval, PaIR ‘11, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, October 24, 2011
  • Utilizing sub-topical structure of documents for information retrieval
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Workshop for Ph.D. students in information {\&} knowledge management, {IPKM} 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011
  • Patent query reduction using pseudo relevance feedback
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the 20th {ACM} Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, {CIKM} 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011
  • Simulation of Within-Session Query Variations Using a Text Segmentation Approach
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation - Second International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, {CLEF} 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-22, 2011. Proceedings
  • Overview of the Personalized and Collaborative Information Retrieval {(PIR)} Track at {FIRE-2011
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages - Second International Workshop, {FIRE} 2010, Gandhinagar, India, February 19-21, 2010 and Third International Workshop, {FIRE} 2011, Bombay, India, December 2-4, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
  • Towards evaluation of personalized and collaborative information retrieval
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Wei Li, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Proceedings of the First Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval, PMHR@HT 2011, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 6, 2011
  • Enhanced Information Retrieval Using Domain-Specific Recommender Models
    Wei Li, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Third International Conference, {ICTIR} 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings
  • Query Expansion for Language Modeling Using Sentence Similarities
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval - Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference, {IRFC} 2011, Vienna, Austria, June 6, 2011. Proceedings
  • Term Conflation and Blind Relevance Feedback for Information Retrieval on Indian Languages
    Johannes Leveling, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages - Second International Workshop, {FIRE} 2010, Gandhinagar, India, February 19-21, 2010 and Third International Workshop, {FIRE} 2011, Bombay, India, December 2-4, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
  • DCU} and ISI@INEX 2010: Adhoc and Data-Centric Tracks
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones, Sauparna Palchowdhury, Sukomal Pal, Mandar Mitra
    Comparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval - 9th International Workshop of the Inititative for the Evaluation of {XML} Retrieval, {INEX} 2010, Vugh, The Netherlands, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers
  • Exploring Accumulative Query Expansion for Relevance Feedback
    Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Comparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval - 9th International Workshop of the Inititative for the Evaluation of {XML} Retrieval, {INEX} 2010, Vugh, The Netherlands, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers
  • Parameter Tuning in Pivoted Normalization for {XML} Retrieval: ISI@INEX09 Adhoc Focused Task
    Sukomal Pal, Mandar Mitra, Debasis Ganguly
    Focused Retrieval and Evaluation, 8th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of {XML} Retrieval, {INEX} 2009, Brisbane, Australia, December 7-9, 2009, Revised and Selected Papers
  • Indian Statistical Institute at {INEX} 2008 Adhoc Track
    Sukomal Pal, Mandar Mitra, Debasis Ganguly, Samaresh Maiti, Ayan Bandyopadhyay, Aparajita Sen, Sukanya Mitra
    Advances in Focused Retrieval, 7th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of {XML} Retrieval, {INEX} 2008, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 15-18, 2008. Revised and Selected Papers

Journal Papers

  • Weakly supervised deep metric learning on discrete metric spaces for privacy-preserved clustering
    Chandan Biswas, Debasis Ganguly, Dwaipayan Roy, Ujjwal Bhattacharya
    Inf. Process. Manag.
  • A Relative Information Gain-based Query Performance Prediction Framework with Generated Query Variants
    Suchana Datta, Debasis Ganguly, Mandar Mitra, Derek Greene
    {ACM} Trans. Inf. Syst.
  • Kernel density estimation based factored relevance model for multi-contextual point-of-interest recommendation
    Anirban Chakraborty, Debasis Ganguly, Annalina Caputo, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Inf. Retr. J.
  • Privacy-aware supervised classification: An informative subspace based multi-objective approach
    Chandan Biswas, Debasis Ganguly, Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Yufang Hou
    Pattern Recognit.
  • Report on the 2nd Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law {(SAIL)} 2022
    Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Arnab Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Shouvik Kumar Guha, Arindam Pal, Koustav Rudra, Prasenjit Majumder, Dwaipayan Roy, Ayan Bandopadhyay, Procheta Sen, Paheli Bhattacharya, Aniket Deroy, Upal Bhattacharya, Subinay Adhikary, Subham Kumar Nigam
    {SIGIR} Forum
  • I Know What You Need: Investigating Document Retrieval Effectiveness with Partial Session Contexts
    Procheta Sen, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    {ACM} Trans. Inf. Syst.
  • Node2vec with weak supervision on community structures
    Swarup Chattopadhyay, Debasis Ganguly
    Pattern Recognit. Lett.
  • Report on supporting and understanding of conversational dialogues workshop {(SUD} 2021) at {WSDM} 2021
    Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones, Procheta Sen, Manisha Verma, Dipasree Pal
    {SIGIR} Forum
  • Learning variable-length representation of words
    Debasis Ganguly
    Pattern Recognit.
  • Estimating Gaussian mixture models in the local neighbourhood of embedded word vectors for query performance prediction
    Dwaipayan Roy, Debasis Ganguly, Mandar Mitra, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Inf. Process. Manag.
  • Retrieving and classifying instances of source code plagiarism
    Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones, Aar{'{o}}n Ram{'{\i}}rez{-}de{-}la{-}Cruz, Gabriela Ram{'{\i}}rez{-}de{-}la{-}Rosa, Esa{'{u}} Villatoro{-}Tello
    Inf. Retr. J.
  • A non-parametric topical relevance model
    Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Inf. Retr. J.
  • Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness: Recent Research and Trends
    Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Gareth J. F. Jones, Marie{-}Francine Moens, Muhammad Imran
    Inf. Syst. Frontiers
  • An Embedding Based {IR} Model for Disaster Situations
    Ayan Bandyopadhyay, Debasis Ganguly, Mandar Mitra, Sanjoy Kumar Saha, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Inf. Syst. Frontiers
  • To Clean or Not to Clean: Document Preprocessing and Reproducibility
    Dwaipayan Roy, Mandar Mitra, Debasis Ganguly
    {ACM} J. Data Inf. Qual.
  • A Fast Partitional Clustering Algorithm based on Nearest Neighbours Heuristics
    Debasis Ganguly
    Pattern Recognit. Lett.
  • Report on the Second Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness {(SMERP} 2018) at the Web Conference {(WWW)} 2018
    Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Gareth J. F. Jones, Marie{-}Francine Moens
    {SIGIR} Forum
  • ECIR} 2017 Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness {(SMERP} 2017)
    Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Gareth J. F. Jones, Marie{-}Francine Moens
    {SIGIR} Forum
  • Named Entity Recognition with Word Embeddings and Wikipedia Categories for a Low-Resource Language
    Arjun Das, Debasis Ganguly, Utpal Garain
    {ACM} Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process.
  • Utilisation of Metadata Fields and Query Expansion in Cross-Lingual Search of User-Generated Internet Video
    Ahmad Khwileh, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
    J. Artif. Intell. Res.
  • FaDA: Fast Document Aligner using Word Embedding
    Pintu Lohar, Debasis Ganguly, Haithem Afli, Andy Way, Gareth J. F. Jones
    Prague Bull. Math. Linguistics
  • A Semisupervised Tag-Transition-Based Markovian Model for Uyghur Morphology Analysis
    Eziz Tursun, Debasis Ganguly, Osman Turghun, Yating Yang, Ghalip Abdukerim, Junlin Zhou, Qun Liu
    {ACM} Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process.