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Charles L. A. Clarke

University of Waterloo, ON, Canada

18 papers at tracked venues · 11 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

DBLP profile ↗ORCID 0000-0001-8178-9194 ↗Google Scholar ↗Homepage ↗

Venues

SIGIR ×7ECIR ×4WWW ×2AAAI ×1ACL ×1CIKM ×1EMNLP ×1WSDM ×1

Frequent coauthors

Negar Arabzadeh
×6
Amin Bigdeli
×4
Ebrahim Bagheri
×4
Radin Hamidi Rad
×3
Mert Incesu
×3
Clemencia Siro
×3
Hossein A. Rahmani
×3
Mohammad Aliannejadi
×3
Nick Craswell
×3
Guglielmo Faggioli
×3
Bhaskar Mitra
×3
Paul Thomas
×3

Papers

  1. A Reproducibility Study of LLM-Based Query Reformulation
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Amin Bigdeli
    ,
    Radin Hamidi Rad
    ,
    Hai Son Le
    ,
    Mert Incesu
    ,
    Negar Arabzadeh
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Ebrahim Bagheri
  2. Optimal Re-Ranking Depth
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Siqing Huo
    ,
    Andrew Parry
    ,
    Debasis Ganguly
    , Charles L. A. Clarke
  3. PLAWBENCH: A Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Real-World Legal Practice
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yuzhen Shi
    ,
    Huanghai Liu
    ,
    Yiran Hu
    ,
    Gaojie Song
    ,
    Xinran Xu
    ,
    Yubo Ma
    ,
    Tianyi Tang
    ,
    Li Zhang
    ,
    Qingjing Chen
    ,
    Di Feng
    ,
    Wenbo Lv
    ,
    Weiheng Wu
    ,
    Kexin Yang
    ,
    Sen Yang
    ,
    Wei Wang
    ,
    Rongyao Shi
    ,
    Yuanyang Qiu
    ,
    Yuemeng Qi
    ,
    Jingwen Zhang
    ,
    Xiaoyu Sui
    ,
    Yifan Chen
    ,
    Yi Zhang
    ,
    An Yang
    ,
    Bowen Yu
    ,
    Dayiheng Liu
    ,
    Junyang Lin
    ,
    Weixing Shen
    ,
    Bing Zhao
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Hu Wei
  4. QueryGym: A Toolkit for Reproducible LLM-Based Query Reformulation
    WWW 2026 ·
    Amin Bigdeli
    ,
    Radin Hamidi Rad
    ,
    Mert Incesu
    ,
    Negar Arabzadeh
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Ebrahim Bagheri
  5. ReFormeR: Learning and Applying Explicit Query Reformulation Patterns
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Amin Bigdeli
    ,
    Mert Incesu
    ,
    Negar Arabzadeh
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Ebrahim Bagheri
  6. Resources for Automated Evaluation of Assistive RAG Systems that Help Readers with News Trustworthiness Assessment
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Dake Zhang
    ,
    Mark D. Smucker
    , Charles L. A. Clarke
  7. The Third Search Futures Workshop at ECIR'26
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Leif Azzopardi
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Claudia Hauff
    ,
    Yubin Kim
    ,
    Zhaochun Ren
    ,
    Adam Roegiest
    ,
    Johanne R. Trippas
    ,
    Saber Zerhoudi
  8. WildClaims: Conversational Information Access in the Wild(Chat)
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Hideaki Joko
    ,
    Shakiba Amirshahi
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Faegheh Hasibi
  9. A Human-AI Comparative Analysis of Prompt Sensitivity in LLM-Based Relevance Judgment
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Negar Arabzadeh
    , Charles L. A. Clarke
  10. Benchmarking LLM-based Relevance Judgment Methods
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Negar Arabzadeh
    , Charles L. A. Clarke
  11. Beyond Utility: Evaluating LLM as Recommender
    WWW 2025 ·
    Chumeng Jiang
    ,
    Jiayin Wang
    ,
    Weizhi Ma
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Shuai Wang
    ,
    Chuhan Wu
    ,
    Min Zhang
  12. Datasets for Supervised Adversarial Attacks on Neural Rankers
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Amir Khosrojerdi
    ,
    Amin Bigdeli
    ,
    Radin Hamidi Rad
    ,
    Morteza Zihayat
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Ebrahim Bagheri
  13. J&H: Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models Under Knowledge-Injection Attacks in Legal Domain
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Yiran Hu
    ,
    Huanghai Liu
    ,
    Qingjing Chen
    ,
    Ning Zheng
    ,
    Chong Wang
    ,
    Yun Liu
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Weixing Shen
  14. LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Clemencia Siro
    ,
    Hossein A. Rahmani
    ,
    Mohammad Aliannejadi
    ,
    Nick Craswell
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Guglielmo Faggioli
    ,
    Bhaskar Mitra
    ,
    Paul Thomas
    ,
    Emine Yilmaz
  15. LLM4Eval@WSDM 2025: Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
    WSDM 2025 ·
    Hossein A. Rahmani
    ,
    Clemencia Siro
    ,
    Mohammad Aliannejadi
    ,
    Nick Craswell
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Guglielmo Faggioli
    ,
    Bhaskar Mitra
    ,
    Paul Thomas
    ,
    Emine Yilmaz
  16. The Second Search Futures Workshop at ECIR'25
    ECIR 2025 · Charles Clarke,
    Paul B. Kantor
    ,
    Adam Roegiest
    ,
    Ian Soboroff
    ,
    Johanne R. Trippas
    ,
    Zhaochun Ren
  17. Assessing and Verifying Task Utility in LLM-Powered Applications
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Negar Arabzadeh
    ,
    Siqing Huo
    ,
    Nikhil Mehta
    ,
    Qingyun Wu
    ,
    Chi Wang
    ,
    Ahmed Awadallah
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Julia Kiseleva
  18. LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Hossein A. Rahmani
    ,
    Clemencia Siro
    ,
    Mohammad Aliannejadi
    ,
    Nick Craswell
    , Charles L. A. Clarke,
    Guglielmo Faggioli
    ,
    Bhaskar Mitra
    ,
    Paul Thomas
    ,
    Emine Yilmaz