Xi Wang

58 papers A* 4A 5Misc 1Journal 29Unranked 19
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Eval4Sim: An Evaluation Framework for Persona Simulation.
CoRR
Eliseo Bao, Anxo Pérez, Xi Wang, Javier Parapar
2026 J jnl
Experiences Build Characters: The Linguistic Origins and Functional Impact of LLM Personality.
CoRR
Xi Wang, Mengdie Zhuang, Jiqun Liu
2026 — conf
Interplay: Training Independent Simulators for Reference-Free Conversational Recommendation.
ECIR (1)
Jerome Ramos, Feng Xia, Xi Wang, Shubham Chatterjee, Xiao Fu, Hossein A. Rahmani, Aldo Lipani
2026 J jnl
Interplay: Training Independent Simulators for Reference-Free Conversational Recommendation.
CoRR
Jerome Ramos, Feng Xia, Xi Wang, Shubham Chatterjee, Xiao Fu, Hossein A. Rahmani, Aldo Lipani
2026 — conf
eRisk 2026: Tasks on Symptoms Ranking, Contextual and Conversational Approaches for Early Mental Health Detection.
ECIR (4)
Anxo Pérez, Javier Parapar, Xi Wang, Fabio Crestani
2025 A conf
+VeriRel: Verification Feedback to Enhance Document Retrieval for Scientific Fact Checking.
CIKM
Xingyu Deng, Xi Wang, Mark Stevenson
2025 J jnl
+VeriRel: Verification Feedback to Enhance Document Retrieval for Scientific Fact Checking.
CoRR
Xingyu Deng, Xi Wang, Mark Stevenson
2025 J jnl
A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents: A New Paradigm Bridging Foundation Models and Lifelong Agentic Systems.
CoRR
Jinyuan Fang, Yanwen Peng, Xi Zhang, Yingxu Wang, Xinhao Yi, Guibin Zhang, Yi Xu, Bin Wu, Siwei Liu, Zihao Li, Zhaochun Ren, Nikos Aletras, Xi Wang, Han Zhou, Zaiqiao Meng
2025 — conf
Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Conversational Systems.
NAACL (Findings)
Xi Wang, Procheta Sen, Ruizhe Li, Emine Yilmaz
2025 J jnl
Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
CoRR
Ruizhe Li, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Yanjun Gao, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz
2025 — conf
Overview of eRisk 2025: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet (Extended Overview).
CLEF (Working Notes)
Javier Parapar, Anxo Pérez, Xi Wang, Fabio Crestani
2025 — conf
Overview of eRisk 2025: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet.
CLEF
Javier Parapar, Anxo Pérez, Xi Wang, Fabio Crestani
2025 A conf
ProActLLM: Proactive Conversational Information Seeking with Large Language Models.
CIKM
Shubham Chatterjee, Xi Wang, Shuo Zhang, Sajad Ebrahimi, Zhaochun Ren, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones, Emine Yilmaz, Hamed Zamani
2025 J jnl
Self-Correcting Large Language Models: Generation vs. Multiple Choice.
CoRR
Hossein A. Rahmani, Satyapriya Krishna, Xi Wang, Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei, Emine Yilmaz
2025 — conf
SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval.
WWW (Companion Volume)
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas
2025 A conf
TalkDep: Clinically Grounded LLM Personas for Conversation-Centric Depression Screening.
CIKM
Xi Wang, Anxo Pérez, Javier Parapar, Fabio Crestani
2025 J jnl
TalkDep: Clinically Grounded LLM Personas for Conversation-Centric Depression Screening.
CoRR
Xi Wang, Anxo Pérez, Javier Parapar, Fabio Crestani
2025 Misc conf
The Next Phase of Scientific Fact-Checking: Advanced Evidence Retrieval from Complex Structured Academic Papers.
ICTIR
Xingyu Deng, Xi Wang, Mark Stevenson
2025 J jnl
The Next Phase of Scientific Fact-Checking: Advanced Evidence Retrieval from Complex Structured Academic Papers.
CoRR
Xingyu Deng, Xi Wang, Mark Stevenson
2025 — conf
eRisk 2025: Contextual and Conversational Approaches for Depression Challenges.
ECIR (5)
Javier Parapar, Anxo Pérez, Xi Wang, Fabio Crestani
2024 J jnl
A Directional Diffusion Graph Transformer for Recommendation.
CoRR
Zixuan Yi, Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis
2024 J jnl
A Social-aware Gaussian Pre-trained model for effective cold-start recommendation.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Siwei Liu, Xi Wang, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2024 J jnl
Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Conversational Systems.
CoRR
Xi Wang, Procheta Sen, Ruizhe Li, Emine Yilmaz
2024 — conf
Clarifying the Path to User Satisfaction: An Investigation into Clarification Usefulness.
EACL (Findings)
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei, Emine Yilmaz
2024 J jnl
Clarifying the Path to User Satisfaction: An Investigation into Clarification Usefulness.
CoRR
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei, Emine Yilmaz
2024 J jnl
Natural Language User Profiles for Transparent and Scrutable Recommendations.
CoRR
Jerome Ramos, Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Xiao Fu, Aldo Lipani
2024 J jnl
Report on the 1st Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024.
SIGIR Forum
Timo Breuer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Norbert Fuhr, Krisztian Balog, Philipp Schaer, Nolwenn Bernard, Ingo Frommholz, Marcel Gohsen, Kaixin Ji, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jüri Keller, Jiqun Liu, Martin Mladenov, Gabriella Pasi, Johanne R. Trippas, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi, ChengXiang Zhai
2024 J jnl
Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024.
SIGIR Forum
Sean MacAvaney, Adam Roegiest, Aldo Lipani, Andrew Parry, Björn Engelmann, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Chuan Meng, Erlend Frayling, Eugene Yang, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Harrisen Scells, Iana Atanassova, Jana Friese, Janek Bevendorff, Javier Sanz-Cruzado, Johanne R. Trippas, Kanaad Pathak, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Leif Azzopardi, Maik Fröbe, Marc Bertin, Nishchal Prasad, Saber Zerhoudi, Shuai Wang, Shubham Chatterjee, Thomas Jänich, Udo Kruschwitz, Xi Wang, Zijun Long
2024 J jnl
Report on the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024.
CoRR
Timo Breuer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Norbert Fuhr, Krisztian Balog, Philipp Schaer, Nolwenn Bernard, Ingo Frommholz, Marcel Gohsen, Kaixin Ji, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jüri Keller, Jiqun Liu, Martin Mladenov, Gabriella Pasi, Johanne R. Trippas, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi, ChengXiang Zhai
2024 — conf
Self Contrastive Learning for Session-Based Recommendation.
ECIR (1)
Zhengxiang Shi, Xi Wang, Aldo Lipani
2024 — conf
SimIIR 3: A Framework for the Simulation of Interactive and Conversational Information Retrieval.
SIGIR-AP
Leif Azzopardi, Timo Breuer, Björn Engelmann, Christin Kreutz, Sean MacAvaney, David Maxwell, Andrew Parry, Adam Roegiest, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi
2024 — conf
Simulated Task Oriented Dialogues for Developing Versatile Conversational Agents.
ECIR (1)
Xi Wang, Procheta Sen, Ruizhe Li, Emine Yilmaz
2024 J jnl
SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval.
CoRR
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas
2024 — conf
Transparent and Scrutable Recommendations Using Natural Language User Profiles.
ACL (1)
Jerome Ramos, Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Xiao Fu, Aldo Lipani
2023 J jnl
A Social-aware Gaussian Pre-trained Model for Effective Cold-start Recommendation.
CoRR
Siwei Liu, Xi Wang, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2023 — conf
A Survey on Asking Clarification Questions Datasets in Conversational Systems.
ACL (1)
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Yue Feng, Qiang Zhang, Emine Yilmaz, Aldo Lipani
2023 J jnl
A Survey on Asking Clarification Questions Datasets in Conversational Systems.
CoRR
Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Yue Feng, Qiang Zhang, Emine Yilmaz, Aldo Lipani
2023 — conf
Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems via Bias Analysis and Language-Model-Enhanced Data Augmentation.
EMNLP (Findings)
Xi Wang, Hossein A. Rahmani, Jiqun Liu, Emine Yilmaz
2023 J jnl
Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems via Bias Analysis and Language-Model-Enhanced Data Augmentation.
CoRR
Xi Wang, Hossein A. Rahmani, Jiqun Liu, Emine Yilmaz
2023 J jnl
Online Distillation for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback.
CoRR
Sean MacAvaney, Xi Wang
2023 J jnl
Self Contrastive Learning for Session-based Recommendation.
CoRR
Zhengxiang Shi, Xi Wang, Aldo Lipani
2023 A* conf
Task2KB: A Public Task-Oriented Knowledge Base.
AAAI
Procheta Sen, Xi Wang, Ruiqing Xu, Emine Yilmaz
2023 J jnl
Task2KB: A Public Task-Oriented Knowledge Base.
CoRR
Procheta Sen, Xi Wang, Ruiqing Xu, Emine Yilmaz
2023 J jnl
When and What to Ask Through World States and Text Instructions: IGLU NLP Challenge Solution.
CoRR
Zhengxiang Shi, Jerome Ramos, To Eun Kim, Xi Wang, Hossein A. Rahmani, Aldo Lipani
2022 J jnl
BanditProp: Bandit Selection of Review Properties for Effective Recommendation.
ACM Trans. Web
Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2022 — conf
Effective Rating Prediction Using an Attention-Based User Review Sentiment Model.
ECIR (1)
Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2022 A* conf
MetaASSIST: Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Meta Learning.
EMNLP
Fanghua Ye, Xi Wang, Jie Huang, Shenghui Li, Samuel Stern, Emine Yilmaz
2022 J jnl
MetaASSIST: Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Meta Learning.
CoRR
Fanghua Ye, Xi Wang, Jie Huang, Shenghui Li, Samuel Stern, Emine Yilmaz
2022 A* conf
Multi-modal Graph Contrastive Learning for Micro-video Recommendation.
SIGIR
Zixuan Yi, Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2021 A* conf
Leveraging Review Properties for Effective Recommendation.
WWW
Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2021 J jnl
Leveraging Review Properties for Effective Recommendation.
CoRR
Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2020 A conf
BETA-Rec: Build, Evaluate and Tune Automated Recommender Systems.
RecSys
Zaiqiao Meng, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Siwei Liu, Yaxiong Wu, Xi Wang, Shangsong Liang, Yucheng Liang, Guangtao Zeng, Junhua Liang, Qiang Zhang
2020 A conf
Negative Confidence-Aware Weakly Supervised Binary Classification for Effective Review Helpfulness Classification.
CIKM
Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2020 J jnl
Negative Confidence-Aware Weakly Supervised Binary Classification for Effective Review Helpfulness Classification.
CoRR
Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2020 — conf
University of Glasgow Terrier Team at the TREC 2020 Deep Learning Track.
TREC
Xiao Wang, Yaxiong Wu, Xi Wang, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
2019 — conf
Comparison of Sentiment Analysis and User Ratings in Venue Recommendation.
ECIR (1)
Xi Wang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2019 — conf
Evaluating Similarity Metrics for Latent Twitter Topics.
ECIR (1)
Xi Wang, Anjie Fang, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
2019 — conf
University of Glasgow Terrier Team at the TREC 2019 Deep Learning Track.
TREC
Ting Su, Xi Wang, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis