@inproceedings{lu-etal-2025-pathway,
    title = "Pathway to Relevance: How Cross-Encoders Implement a Semantic Variant of {BM}25",
    author = "Lu, Meng  and
      Chen, Catherine  and
      Eickhoff, Carsten",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.1297/",
    pages = "25536--25558",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6"
}