
Donald Metzler
Donald Metzler is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Inc. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo!. He has served as the Program Chair of the WSDM, ICTIR, and OAIR conferences and sat on the editorial boards of all the major journals in his field. He has published over 100 research papers, has been awarded 9 patents, and is a co-author of "Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice".
He currently leads a research group focused on a variety of problems at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval.
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SEMQA: Semi-Extractive Multi-Source Question Answering
Haitian Sun
NAACL (2024) (to appear)
Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting
Michael Bendersky
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) (2024)
UL2: Unifying Language Learning Paradigms
Yi Tay
Xavier Garcia
Jason Wei
Hyung Won Chung
Steven Zheng
Neil Houlsby
ICLR (2023)
Understanding Generative Retrieval at Scale
Ronak Pradeep
Jimmy Lin
EMNLP 2023
DSI++: Updating Transformer Memory with New Documents
Yi Tay
Jinfeng Rao
Emma Strubell
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
PaRaDe: Passage Ranking using Demonstrations with Large Language Models
Andrew Drozdov
Zhuyun Dai
Razieh Negin Rahimi
Andrew McCallum
Mohit Iyyer
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)
Charformer: Fast Character Transformers via Gradient-based Subword Tokenization
Yi Tay
Sebastian Ruder
Hyung Won Chung
Cong Yu
ICLR (2022)