Catherine Chen

According to our database, Catherine Chen authored at least 15 papers between 2022 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

RankSteer: Activation Steering for Pointwise LLM Ranking.

Yumeng Wang, Catherine Chen, Suzan Verberne

CoRR, February, 2026

How Role-Play Shapes Relevance Judgment in Zero-Shot LLM Rankers.

Yumeng Wang, Jirui Qi, Catherine Chen, Panagiotis Eustratiadis, Suzan Verberne

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2026

Tutorial on Mechanistic Interpretability.

Catherine Chen, Maria Heuss, Carsten Eickhoff

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2026

2025

Report on the Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval (WExIR) at SIGIR 2025.

Maria Heuss, Catherine Chen, Avishek Anand, Carsten Eickhoff, Suzan Verberne

SIGIR Forum, December, 2025

Cross-Encoder Rediscovers a Semantic Variant of BM25.

Meng Lu, Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff

CoRR, February, 2025

Towards Best Practices of Axiomatic Activation Patching in Information Retrieval.

Gregory Polyakov, Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025

Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval.

Maria Heuss, Catherine Chen, Avishek Anand, Carsten Eickhoff, Suzan Verberne

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025

Pathway to Relevance: How Cross-Encoders Implement a Semantic Variant of BM25.

Meng Lu, Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

MechIR: A Mechanistic Interpretability Framework for Information Retrieval.

Andrew Parry, Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff, Sean MacAvaney

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2025

2024

Axiomatic Causal Interventions for Reverse Engineering Relevance Computation in Neural Retrieval Models.

Catherine Chen, Jack Merullo, Carsten Eickhoff

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

Evaluating Search System Explainability with Psychometrics and Crowdsourcing.

Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

2023

SSE: A Metric for Evaluating Search System Explainability.

Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff

CoRR, 2023

Quantifying and Advancing Information Retrieval System Explainability.

Catherine Chen

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

Outlier Dimensions Encode Task Specific Knowledge.

William Rudman, Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

2022

Evaluating Search Explainability with Psychometrics and Crowdsourcing.

Catherine Chen, Carsten Eickhoff

CoRR, 2022