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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

ICRA 2024 conference recap blog - RASCAL library

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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Effects of Past Interactions on User Experience with Recommended Documents

Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Ahmed Awadallah, Susan Dumais, Xuhai Xu

ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) | March 2020

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Towards a model for spoken conversational search

Johanne R Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon

Information Processing and Management | March 2020, Vol 57(2)

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Theories of conversation for conversational IR

Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell

International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval | March 2020

An extended version of this paper also appears as Thomas et al., ACM Trans. Info. Sys. 39(2), 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3439869.

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Data-driven evaluation metrics for heterogeneous search engine result pages

Leif Azzopardi, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell

Proceedings of the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020

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Screening for Cancer Using a Learning Internet Advertising System

Elad Yom-Tov

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare | March 2020, Vol 1(2)

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Quickr: Cost-Effective Data Analytics at Scale

Quickr explores cost-effective data analytics at scale, breaking new ground in research on offering approximate answers for complex ad-hoc queries.

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Fireside Chat with Maarten de Rijke

February 27, 2020 | Maarten de Rijke, Susan Dumais

Fireside Chat: Susan Dumais and Maarten de Rijke

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Microsoft Academic

Microsoft Academic is a project exploring how to assist human conducting scientific research by leveraging machine’s cognitive power in memory, computation, sensing, attention, and endurance.

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Auditing Outsourced Services

February 24, 2020 | Xinyang Ge, Cheng Tan

How can users of a cloud service verify that the service truly performs as promised? This question is vital today because clouds are complicated black boxes, running in different administrative domains from users. Their correctness…

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Accessible Information Retrieval

Web search is an important modern literacy skill, necessary for fully participating in many aspects of society including education, employment, commerce, and entertainment. However, web search is particularly challenging for people with print disabilities, such…

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