Postdoctoral researcher Besat Kassaie, Dr. Andrew Kane and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa have won a Best Paper Award at DocEng’25, the 25th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. Their paper, Exploiting Query Reformulation and Reciprocal Rank Fusion in Math-Aware Search Engines, introduces new methods that improve how search engines handle mathematical queries.
“Congratulations to Besat, Andrew and Frank,” said Raouf Boutaba, University Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science. “Their work demonstrates how combining large language models for query reformulation along with reciprocal rank fusion can substantially improve mathematical information retrieval, achieving far better performance than relying on the original query alone.”
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