Search and information retrieval

Publication

Evaluation Validity in Information Retrieval

Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White

2026 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026

Publication

An Eye Tracking Study: Are AI Overviews Changing Search Behavior?

Sara Allawati, Dana McKay, Mark Sanderson, Paul Thomas, Johanne R Trippas

2026 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026

Career Opportunity

Principal Applied Scientist – Microsoft Search & Ads Network (MSAN) modeling team

Posted: April 20, 2026

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Research Area(s): Algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Search and information retrieval

This role is part of the Microsoft Search & Ads Network (MSAN) modeling team, focused on building large-scale machine learning systems for ads retrieval, ranking, user understanding and marketplace optimization across different surfaces. The team…

Publication

DocQAC: Adaptive Trie-Guided Decoding for Effective In-Document Query Auto-Completion

Rahul Mehta, V. KavinR, Indrajit Pal, Tushar Abhishek, Pawan Goyal, Manish Gupta

April 2026

Publication

Transparent and Controllable Recommendation Filtering via Multimodal Multi-Agent Collaboration

Chi Zhang, Zhipeng Xu, Jiahao Liu, Dongsheng Li, Hansu Gu, Peng Zhang, Ning Gu, T. Lu

April 2026

Publication

HORIZON: A Benchmark for In-the-wild User Behaviour Modeling

Arnav Goel, Pranjal A. Chitale, Bhawna Paliwal, Bishal Santra, Amit Sharma

April 2026

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DUET: Joint Exploration of User Item Profiles in Recommendation System

Yue Chen, Yifei Sun, Lu Wang, Fangkai Yang, Pu Zhao, Minjie Hong, Yi Dong, Minghua He, Nan Hu, Jianjin Zhang, Zhiwei Dai, Yuefeng Zhan, Weihao Han, Hao Sun, Qingwei Lin, Weiwei Deng, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang

April 2026

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Strengthening the CHIIR community: Bridging interactive IR and HCI at CHI 2026

Haiming Liu, Rob Capra, Paul Thomas, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Morgan A Harvey, Rosie Jones, Chang Liu, Udo Kruschwitz, Stephann Makri, Laurianne Sitbon, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R Trippas

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2026

Publication

Structure-Grounded Knowledge Retrieval via Code Dependencies for Multi-Step Data Reasoning

Xinyi Huang, Haoyu Dong

April 2026

Publication

From Searchable to Non-Searchable: Generative AI and Information Diversity in Online Information Seeking

Yulin Yu, Yizhou Li, Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts

April 2026

Search and information retrieval

On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

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

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

Evaluation Validity in Information Retrieval

An Eye Tracking Study: Are AI Overviews Changing Search Behavior?

Principal Applied Scientist – Microsoft Search & Ads Network (MSAN) modeling team

DocQAC: Adaptive Trie-Guided Decoding for Effective In-Document Query Auto-Completion

Transparent and Controllable Recommendation Filtering via Multimodal Multi-Agent Collaboration

HORIZON: A Benchmark for In-the-wild User Behaviour Modeling

DUET: Joint Exploration of User Item Profiles in Recommendation System

Strengthening the CHIIR community: Bridging interactive IR and HCI at CHI 2026

Structure-Grounded Knowledge Retrieval via Code Dependencies for Multi-Step Data Reasoning

From Searchable to Non-Searchable: Generative AI and Information Diversity in Online Information Seeking

Search and information retrieval

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