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In this work we describe how Docker images can be used to enhance the reproducibility of Neural IR models. We report our results reproducing the Vector Space Neural Model (NVSM) and we release a CPU-based and a GPU-based Docker image. Finally, we present some insights about reproducing Neural IR models.
The full paper has been originally presented at the OSIRRC@SIGIR workshop [3].
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Ferro, N., Marchesin, S., Purpura, A., Silvello, G. (2020). Reproducibility of the Neural Vector Space Model via Docker. In: Ceci, M., Ferilli, S., Poggi, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: The Era of Big Data and Data Science. IRCDL 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1177. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4_1
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