2024

  1. Generate-then-Ground in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-hop Question Answering Zhengliang Shi, Shuo Zhang, Weiwei Sun, Shen Gao, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Zhaochun Ren, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '24), 2024. [PDF]
  1. Enhancing Question Answering on Charts Through Effective Pre-training Tasks Ashim Gupta, Vivek Gupta, Shuo Zhang, Yujie He, Ning Zhang, Shalin Shah, arXiv, 2024. [PDF]
  1. Assessing Brittleness of Image-Text Retrieval Benchmarks from Vision-Language Models Perspective Mariya Hendriksen∗, Shuo Zhang, Ridho Reinanda, Mohamed Yahya, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, arXiv, 2024. [PDF]

2023

  1. UserSimCRS: A User Simulation Toolkit for Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems Jafar Afzali, Aleksander Mark Drzewiecki, Krisztian Balog and Shuo Zhang, The 16th ACM International WSDM Conference (WSDM ’23), 2023. [PDF]
  2. Metaphorical User Simulators for Evaluating Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Weiwei Sun, Shuyu Guo, Shuo Zhang, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Maarten de Rijke and Zhaochun Ren, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2023. [PDF]
  3. Towards Explainable Conversational Recommender Systems Shuyu Guo, Shuo Zhang, Weiwei Sun, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen and Zhaochun Ren, The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '23), 2023. [PDF]
  4. RADE: Reference-Assisted Dialogue Evaluation for Open-Domain Dialogue Zhengliang Shi, Weiwei Sun, Shuo Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Pengjie Ren and Zhaochun Ren, The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '23), 2023. [PDF]
  5. InfoSync: Information Synchronization across Multilingual Semi-structured Tables Siddharth Hemant Khincha, Chelsi Jain, Vivek Gupta, Tushar Kataria and Shuo Zhang, The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '23), 2023. [PDF]
  6. TEMPTABQA: Temporal Question Answering for Semi-Structured Tables Vivek Gupta, Pranshu Kandoi, Shuo Zhang, Yujie He, Ridho Reinanda and Vivek Srikumar, The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '23), 2023. [PDF]

2022

  1. StruBERT: Structure-aware BERT for Table Search and Matching Mohamed Trabelsi, Zhiyu Chen, Shuo Zhang, Brian Davison, and Jeff Heflin The ACM Web Conference (WWW ’22), 2022. [PDF]
  2. Right for the Right Reason: Evidence Extraction for Trustworthy Tabular Reasoning Vivek Gupta, Shuo Zhang, Alakananda Vempala, Yujie He, Temma Choji, and Vivek Srikumar The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL ’22), 2022. [PDF]
  3. Analyzing and Simulating User Utterance Reformulation in Conversational Recommender Systems Shuo Zhang, Mu Chun Wang, and Krisztian Balog The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’22), 2022. [PDF]
  4. XINFOTABS: Evaluating Multilingual Tabular Natural Language Inference Bhavnick Singh Bhavnick, Anant Shankhdhar, Vivek Gupta, Divyanshu Aggarwal, and Shuo Zhang The Fifth Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) (ACL ’22), 2022. [PDF]
  5. Enhancing Tabular Reasoning with Pattern Exploiting Training Abhilash Shankarampeta, Vivek Gupta, and Shuo Zhang The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP ’22), 2022. [PDF]
  6. Realistic Data Augmentation Framework for Enhancing Tabular Reasoning Dibyakanti Kumar, Vivek Gupta, Soumya Sharma, and Shuo Zhang The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP ’22), 2022. [PDF]

2021

  1. Semantic Table Retrieval Using Keyword and Table Queries Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog ACM Trans. Web 2021. [PDF]
  2. WTR: A Test Collection for Web Table Retrieval Zhiyu Chen, Shuo Zhang, and Brian Davison Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), 2021. [PDF]
  3. Simulating User Satisfaction for the Evaluation of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Weiwei Sun*, Shuo Zhang*, Krisztian Balog, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, and Maarten Rijke Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21 (*Equal contribution)), 2021. [PDF]
  4. Sim4IR: The SIGIR 2021 Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation Krisztian Balog, David Maxwell, Paul Thomas, and Shuo Zhang Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), 2021. [PDF]
  5. TAT-QA: A Question Answering Benchmark on a Hybrid of Tabular and Textual Content in Finance Domain Fengbin Zhu, Wenqiang Lei, Youcheng Huang, Chao Wang, Shuo Zhang, Jiancheng Lv, Fuli Feng, and Tat-Seng Chua Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), 2021. [PDF]
  6. POSHAN: Cardinal POS Pattern Guided Attention for News Headline Incongruence Rahul Mishra, and Shuo Zhang Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’21), 2021. [PDF]
  7. Report on the 1st Simulation for Information Retrieval Workshop (Sim4IR 2021) at SIGIR 2021 Krisztian Balog, David Maxwell, Paul Thomas, and Shuo Zhang SIGIR Forum (SIGIR Forum), 2021. [PDF]

2020

  1. Web Table Extraction, Retrieval, and Augmentation: A Survey Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 2020. [PDF]
  2. Novel Entity Discovery from Web Tables Shuo Zhang, Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog, and Ridho Reinanda Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW ’20), 2020. [PDF]
  3. Summarizing and Exploring Tabular Data in Conversational Search Shuo Zhang*, Zhuyun Dai*, Krisztian Balog, and Jamie Callan Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’20 (*Equal contribution)), 2020. [PDF]
  4. Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’20), 2020. [PDF]
  5. Generating Categories for Sets of Entities Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog, and Jamie Callan Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’20), 2020. [PDF]
  6. IAI MovieBot: A Conversational Movie Recommender System Javeria Habib, Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’20), 2020. [PDF]

2019

  1. Recommending Related Tables Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog CoRR 2019. [PDF]
  2. Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’19), 2019. [PDF]
  3. Table2Vec: Neural Word and Entity Embeddings for Table Population and Retrieval Li Deng, Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’19), 2019. [PDF]
  4. Auto-completion for Data Cells in Relational Tables Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’19), 2019. [PDF]
  5. Table Search, Generation and Completion (PhD Thesis) Shuo Zhang 2019. [PDF]

2018

  1. Generating High-Quality Query Suggestion Candidates for Task-Based Search Heng Ding, Shuo Zhang, Darío Garigliotti, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of the 40th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR ’18), 2018. [PDF]
  2. Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of The Web Conference 2018 (WWW ’18), 2018. [PDF]
  3. SmartTable: A Spreadsheet Program with Intelligent Assistance Shuo Zhang, Vugar Abdul Zada, and Krisztian Balog The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’18), 2018. [PDF]
  4. SmartTable: Equipping Spreadsheets with Intelligent Assistance Functionalities Shuo Zhang Proceedings of 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’18), 2018. [PDF]
  5. On-the-fly Table Generation Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’18), 2018. [PDF]

2017

  1. Multi-access Method for Heterogeneous Networks based on Grey Relation Analysis (Patent) Qi Zhu, and Shuo Zhang 2017.
  2. Design Patterns for Fusion-Based Object Retrieval Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of the 39th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR ’17), 2017. [PDF]
  3. Supervised Ranking of Triples for Type-Like Relations Faegheh Hasibi, Darío Garigliotti, Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog WSDM Cup (), 2017. [PDF]
  4. Nordlys: A Toolkit for Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Darı́o Garigliotti, and Shuo Zhang Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’17), 2017. [PDF]
  5. EntiTables: Smart Assistance for Entity-Focused Tables Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’17), 2017. [PDF]

2016

  1. Heterogeneous Network Selection Method based on Four Weighting Vectors (Patent) Qi Zhu, and Shuo Zhang 2016.
  2. Research on Multi-access Network Selection Methods in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (Master Thesis) Shuo Zhang 2016. [PDF]
  3. Fusion-based Information Retrieval (Master Thesis) Shuo Zhang 2016. [PDF]
  4. The Birth and Death Process Enhanced Optimization Algorithm for Multi-Access Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Shuo Zhang, and Qi Zhu Journal of Information Science and Engineering 2016. [PDF]

2014

  1. Heterogeneous Wireless Network Selection Algorithm based on Group Decision Shuo Zhang, and Qi Zhu The Journal of China Universities of Posts and Telecommunications 2014. [PDF]