Benjamin Piwowarski

Benjamin Piwowarski

Researcher in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing

CNRS

Sorbonne Université

Biography

I am a 1st grade researcher within the CNRS in France, working in the MLIA team of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) located in Sorbonne Université.

Interests
  • Representing text with neural networks
  • Building user models (for activities like search)
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Extraction
  • Text Generation
Education
  • Research Direction Habilitation (HDR), 2020

    Sorbonne Université

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2003

    Université Paris 6

  • Master in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, 1999

    Université Paris 6

  • BSc in Mathematics applied to Social Sciences, 1997

    Université Paris 5

  • BSc in Psychology, 1997

    Université Paris 5

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Researcher
Oct 2011 – Present Paris, France
Research located at Sorbonne Université
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoc
Apr 2008 – Aug 2011 Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Post-doctorate on quantum physics applied to information retrieval
 
 
 
 
 
Researcher
Aug 2005 – Feb 2008 Santiago, Chile
Researcher on user modeling
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoc
Aug 2005 – Feb 2008 Santiago, Chile
Post-doctorate on XML Retrieval

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Recent Publications

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(2022). On the Study of Transformers for Query Suggestion. ACM Transactions on Information Systems.

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(2021). Une Analyse du Modèle ColBERT. Conférence francophone en Recherche d’Information et Application.

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(2021). SPLADE v2: Sparse Lexical and Expansion Model for Information Retrieval. arXiv:2109.10086 [cs].

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(2021). Data-QuestEval: A Referenceless Metric for Data-to-Text Semantic Evaluation. arXiv:2104.07555 [cs].

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(2021). Skim-Attention: Learning to Focus via Document Layout. arXiv:2109.01078 [cs].

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