Chuan Meng (孟 川)
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Information Retrieval Lab (IRLab) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), promoter: Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke and Prof. dr. Mohammad Aliannejadi.
I currently work on Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing, especially focusing on Conversational Information Seeking (CIS) and Query Performance Prediction (QPP).
Before joining UvA, I received my master’s degree from Shandong University in 2021.
During my master’s degree, I worked on Knowledge-Grounded Conversation (KGC).
The KGC paper list that I maintained is here.
Publications
- Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Alliannejadi, and Ebrahim Bagheri. Query Performance Prediction: From Fundamentals to Advanced Techniques. In ECIR 2024: The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval. (CCF-C)
- Arian Askari, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Chuan Meng, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Suzan Verberne. Expand, Highlight, Generate: RL-driven Document Generation for Passage Reranking. In EMNLP 2023: The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. (CCF-B) [pdf]
- Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maarten de Rijke. System Initiative Prediction for Multi-turn Conversational Information Seeking. In CIKM 2023: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. ACM, October 2023. (CCF-B) [pdf] [code]
- Chuan Meng, Negar Arabzadeh, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maarten de Rijke. Query Performance Prediction: From Ad-hoc to Conversational Search. In SIGIR 2023: 46th international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ACM, July 2023. (CCF-A) [pdf] [code]
- Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maarten de Rijke. Performance Prediction for Conversational Search Using Perplexities of Query Rewrites. In ECIR 2023 Workshop on Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks (QPP++ 2023). CEUR-WS, April 2023. [pdf] [code]
- Chuan Meng, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Tengxiao Xi, and Maarten de Rijke. Initiative-Aware Self-Supervised learning for Knowledge-Grounded Conversations. The 44th international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-2021), Online, July 11-15, 2021. (CCF-A) [pdf]
- Weiwei Sun#, Chuan Meng#(co-first author), Qi Meng, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, and Maarten de Rijke. Conversations Powered by Cross-Lingual Knowledge. The 44th international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-2021), Online, July 11-15, 2021. (CCF-A) [pdf]
- Chuan Meng, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Weiwei Sun, Zhaochun Ren, Zhaopeng Tu and Maarten de Rijke. DukeNet: A Dual Knowledge Interaction Network for Knowledge-Grounded Conversation. The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-2020), Online, July 25-30, 2020. (CCF-A) [pdf]
- Chuan Meng, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Christof Monz, Jun Ma, and Maarten de Rijke. RefNet: A Reference-aware Network for Background Based Conversation. The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2020), February 7-12, 2020, New York, USA. (CCF-A) [pdf] [code]
Academic Services
Scholarships and Awards
- National Scholarship, 2020
- SIGIR Student Travel Grant, 2020
- AAAI Student Scholar Scholarship, 2019
- Scholarship for Outstanding Postgraduate Cadres of Shandong University, 2019
- Academic Scholarship for Master students of Shandong University, 2019
- Outstanding Students of Shandong Province, 2017
- Outstanding Graduates of Shandong Province, 2017
- The Stars of Self-improvement of Chinese College Students, 2017
- National Scholarship, 2016
Miscellaneous