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  1. From Noise to Order: Learning to Rank via Denoising Diffusion

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  2. Failing Forward: Understanding Query Failure in Retrieval, Judgment, and Generation

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, negar arabzadeh

  3. From Doxa to Logos in Scientific Peer Review

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

  4. Peerispect : Claim Verification in Scientific Peer Reviews

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

  5. PeerPrism: Peer Evaluation Expertise vs Review-writing AI

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  6. Can QPP Choose the Right Query variant? Evaluating Query Variant Selection for RAG Pipelines

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  7. PeeriScope: A Multi-Faceted Framework for Evaluating Peer Review Quality

    Article • May 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

  8. QueryGym: A Toolkit for Reproducible LLM-Based Query Reformulation

    Article • May 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  9. Can LLMs Uphold Research Integrity? Evaluating the Role of LLMs in Peer Review Quality

    Article • February 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

  10. Query Performance Prediction Using Neural Query Space Proximity

    Article • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Amin Bigdeli, negar arabzadeh

  11. ProActLLM: Proactive Conversational Information Seeking with Large Language Models

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, negar arabzadeh

  12. Building Trustworthy Peer Review Quality Assessment Systems

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  13. RottenReviews: Benchmarking Review Quality with Human and LLM-Based Judgments

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  14. A Human-AI Comparative Analysis of Prompt Sensitivity in LLM-Based Relevance Judgment

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  15. VAP3: Variation-Aware Prompt Performance Prediction

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  16. IDAT: A Multi-Modal Dataset and Toolkit for Building and Evaluating Interactive Task-Solving Agents

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Andrea Tupini, negar arabzadeh

  17. Benchmarking LLM-based Relevance Judgment Methods

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  18. Query Performance Prediction: Theory, Techniques and Applications

    Article • March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  19. Query Performance Prediction: Techniques and Applications in Modern Information Retrieval

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  20. Evaluating Relative Retrieval Effectiveness with Normalized Residual Gain

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  21. Offline Evaluation of Set-Based Text-to-Image Generation

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  22. Reviewerly: Modeling the Reviewer Assignment Task as an Information Retrieval Problem

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  23. Enhanced Retrieval Effectiveness through Selective Query Generation

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, negar arabzadeh

  24. Retrieving Supporting Evidence for Generative Question Answering

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  25. Noisy Perturbations for Estimating Query Difficulty in Dense Retrievers

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  26. A is for Adele: An Offline Evaluation Metric for Instant Search

    Article • August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  27. Quantifying Ranker Coverage of Different Query Subspaces

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  28. A Preference Judgment Tool for Authoritative Assessment

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  29. Gender Fairness in Information Retrieval Systems

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  30. Addressing Gender-related Performance Disparities in Neural Rankers

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  31. Predicting Efficiency/Effectiveness Trade-offs for Dense vs. Sparse Retrieval Strategy Selection

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  32. MS MARCO Chameleons: Challenging the MS MARCO Leaderboard with Extremely Obstinate Queries

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  33. Matches Made in Heaven: Toolkit and Large-Scale Datasets for Supervised Query Reformulation

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  34. BERT-QPP: Contextualized Pre-trained transformers for Query Performance Prediction

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  35. On the Orthogonality of Bias and Utility in Ad hoc Retrieval

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh

  36. Geometric Estimation of Specificity within Embedding Spaces

    Article • November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    negar arabzadeh