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Negar Arabzadeh

PhD Candidate

My name is Negar Arabzadeh. I am a PhD student at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr.Charles Clarke. I truly enjoy doing research in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.

News

October 2024

📚 Our paper  "Assessing and Verifying Task Utility in LLM-Powered Applications" was accepted at EMNLP 2024. 

W/ Siqing Huo, Nikhil Mehta, Qingyun Wu, Chi Wang, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Charles L. A. Clarke and Julia Kiseleva  

September 2024

📚 Our paper  "Offline Evaluation of Set-Based Text-to-Image Generation " was accepted at SIGIR-AP 2024. 

W/ Fernando Diaz and Junfeng He


📚 Our paper  " Evaluating Relative Retrieval Effectiveness with Normalized Residual Gain" was accepted at SIGIR-AP 2024. 

W/ Amin Bigdeli, Charles L.A. Clarke and Ebrahim Bagheri.
 

📚 Our tutorial  "Query Performance Prediction: Techniques and Applications in Modern Information Retrieval" was accepted at SIGIR-AP 2024. 

W/ Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi nd Ebrahim Bagheri.
 

August 2024

📚 Our paper  "Robust Query Performance Prediction for Dense Retrievers via Adaptive Disturbance Generation" was accepted at Machine Learning Journal. 

W/ Abbas Saleminezhad, Soosan Beheshti and Ebrahim Bagheri
 

📚 Our paper  "Gender Disentangled Representation Learning in Neural Rankers Journal Article" was accepted at Machine Learning Journal 

W/ Shirin Seyedsalehi, Sara salamat, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim bagheri
 

📚 Our paper  "A Contrastive Neural Disentanglement Approach for Query Performance Prediction" was accepted at Machine Learning Journal 

W/  Sara salamat, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Amin Bigdeli, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri

July 2024

📚 Our paper  "Enhanced Retrieval Effectiveness through Selective Query Generation" was accepted at CIKM 2024. 

W/ Mohammad Hosseini, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri.

📚 Our proposal for industrial talk "Reviewerly: Modeling the Reviewer Assignment Task as an Information Retrieval Problem" was accepted at CIKM 2024. 

W/ Sajad Ebrahimi, Sara Salamat, Mahdi Bashari and Ebrahim Bagheri.

June 2024

💬 I gave a talk at Sky Computing Lab University of California Berkeley on Evaluation of Information Access Systems in the Generative Era

May 2024

🏆I was honored to receive the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).
 

April 2024

I have passed my PhD second comprehensive exam. Officially a PhD candidate now !

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