Publications

2026

1. Resources for Automated Evaluation of Assistive RAG Systems that Help Readers with News Trustworthiness Assessment

   Dake Zhang, Mark D. Smucker, and Charles L. A. Clarke

   In arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.24277, 2026

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{zhang2026resources,
     title = {Resources for Automated Evaluation of Assistive RAG Systems that Help Readers with News Trustworthiness Assessment},
     author = {Zhang, Dake and Smucker, Mark D. and Clarke, Charles L. A.},
     booktitle = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.24277},
     year = {2026},
     eprint = {2602.24277},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.IR},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24277},
   }

2025

1. An Iterative Multi-agent RAG System for the TREC 2025 DRAGUN Track

   Dake Zhang

   In Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2025

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{zhang2025baseline,
     title = {An Iterative Multi-agent RAG System for the TREC 2025 DRAGUN Track},
     author = {Zhang, Dake},
     booktitle = {Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. Overview of the TREC 2025 DRAGUN Track: Detection, Retrieval, and Augmented Generation for Understanding News

   Dake Zhang, Mark D. Smucker, and Charles L. A. Clarke

   In Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2025

   Bib PDF Code Website

   @inproceedings{zhang2025overview,
     title = {Overview of the TREC 2025 DRAGUN Track: Detection, Retrieval, and Augmented Generation for Understanding News},
     author = {Zhang, Dake and Smucker, Mark D. and Clarke, Charles L. A.},
     booktitle = {Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. Overview of the TREC 2024 Lateral Reading Track

   Dake Zhang, Mark D. Smucker, and Charles L. A. Clarke

   In Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2024

   Bib PDF Data Website

   @inproceedings{zhang2024overview,
     title = {Overview of the TREC 2024 Lateral Reading Track},
     author = {Zhang, Dake and Smucker, Mark D. and Clarke, Charles L. A.},
     booktitle = {Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)},
     year = {2024},
     data = {https://pages.nist.gov/trec-browser/trec33/lateral/data/}
   }

2023

1. UWaterlooMDS at TREC 2023: Deep Learning Track and Tip-of-the-Tongue Track

   Dake Zhang

   In Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2023

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{zhang2023uwaterloomds,
     title = {UWaterlooMDS at TREC 2023: Deep Learning Track and Tip-of-the-Tongue Track},
     author = {Zhang, Dake},
     booktitle = {Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)},
     year = {2023}
   }

2. ReadProbe: A Demo of Retrieval-Enhanced Large Language Models to Support Lateral Reading

   Dake Zhang, and Ronak Pradeep

   In arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07875, 2023

   Hackathon Winner Bib PDF Code

   First place at the 2023 Canadian #AI Misinformation Hackathon hosted by TMU Social Media Lab: https://socialmedialab.ca/events/hackathon/

   @inproceedings{zhang2023readprobe,
     title = {ReadProbe: A Demo of Retrieval-Enhanced Large Language Models to Support Lateral Reading},
     author = {Zhang, Dake and Pradeep, Ronak},
     booktitle = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07875},
     year = {2023}
   }

2022

1. UWaterlooMDS at the TREC 2022 Health Misinformation Track

   Amir Vakili Tahami, Dake Zhang, and Mark D. Smucker

   In Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2022

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{zhang2022uwaterloomds,
     title = {UWaterlooMDS at the TREC 2022 Health Misinformation Track},
     author = {Tahami, Amir Vakili and Zhang, Dake and Smucker, Mark D.},
     booktitle = {Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)},
     year = {2022}
   }

2. Reducing Health Misinformation in Search Results

   Dake Zhang

   In UWSpace Theses, 2022

   Bib HTML PDF

   @inproceedings{zhang2022reducing,
     title = {Reducing Health Misinformation in Search Results},
     author = {Zhang, Dake},
     booktitle = {UWSpace Theses},
     year = {2022},
   }

3. Learning Trustworthy Web Sources to Derive Correct Answers and Reduce Health Misinformation in Search

   Dake Zhang, Amir Vakili Tahami, Mustafa Abualsaud, and Mark D. Smucker

   In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 2022

   DOI Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{zhang2022learning,
     title = {Learning Trustworthy Web Sources to Derive Correct Answers and Reduce Health Misinformation in Search},
     author = {Zhang, Dake and Tahami, Amir Vakili and Abualsaud, Mustafa and Smucker, Mark D.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
     year = {2022},
     isbn = {9781450387323},
     publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
     address = {New York, NY, USA},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3477495.3531812},
     doi = {10.1145/3477495.3531812},
     pages = {2099–2104},
     numpages = {6},
     location = {Madrid, Spain},
     series = {SIGIR '22}
   }

2021

1. UWaterlooMDS at the TREC 2021 Health Misinformation Track

   Mustafa Abualsaud, Irene Xiangyi Chen, Kamyar Ghajar, Linh Nhi Phan Minh, Mark D. Smucker, Amir Vakili Tahami, and Dake Zhang

   In Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2021

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{abualsaud2021uwaterloomds,
     title = {UWaterlooMDS at the TREC 2021 Health Misinformation Track},
     author = {Abualsaud, Mustafa and Chen, Irene Xiangyi and Ghajar, Kamyar and Minh, Linh Nhi Phan and Smucker, Mark D. and Tahami, Amir Vakili and Zhang, Dake},
     booktitle = {Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)},
     year = {2021}
   }