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Search and information retrieval

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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

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RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

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Find Your Lost Data

November 12, 2004

By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research The more data you have, the more you know The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why have data?…

Microsoft Research Blog

By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Sometimes the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts. Sometimes the whole doesn’t even represent its parts. Take a Web page for instance. Is all the…

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RMIT University at TREC 2004

Bodo von Billerbeck, Adam Cannane, Abhijit Chattaraj, Nicholas Lester, William Webber, Hugh E. Williams, John Yiannis, Justin Zobel

Proceedings Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) | November 2004

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Presentable Document Format: Improved On-demand PDF to HTML Conversion

Ralph Sommerer

MSR-TR-2004-119 | November 2004

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A Machine Learning Framework for Combined Information Extraction and Integration

Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma

MSR-TR-2004-121 | November 2004

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Sender-initiated email notification

Gabriel White, Leizhong Zhang

MSR-TR-2004-126 | November 2004

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Predictive Algorithms for Browser Support of Habitual User Activities on the Web

Janez Brank, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Anthony Frayling, Gavin Smyth

MSR-TR-2004-122 | November 2004

Microsoft Research Blog

Squeeze the Screen

October 27, 2004

By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research If you’ve never seen some of the ingenious ways that researchers have invented to make viewing data on a small screen easy, you might say, “I’ll never do all…

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All the News That’s Fit to Read

October 15, 2004

By Suzanne Ross People read stories to find out what happens next. That’s easy enough in a book, but if the story is about real life, and it’s online in the news media, it’s harder…

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Implicit Feedback for Interactive Information Retrieval

Ryen W. White

October 2004

PhD Thesis: Department of Computing Science, Faculty of Computing Science, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow | October 2004

BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award for best CS PhD in the UK

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