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Improving how people discover, understand, and use information through advances in search and retrieval.

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Geometric Disentangled Collaborative Filtering

Yiding Zhang, Chaozhuo Li, Xing Xie, Xiao Wang, Chuan Shi, Yuming Liu, Hao Sun, Liangjie Zhang, Weiwei Deng, Qi Zhang

SIGIR 2022 | August 2022

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SIGIR 2022

July 11, 2022 – June 15, 2022 | Madrid, Spain

Microsoft is proud to be a sponsor of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (opens in new tab). Search and recommendation is core to many Microsoft offerings—such as…

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Unsupervised Context Aware Sentence Representation Pretraining for Multi-lingual Dense Retrieval

Ning Wu, Yaobo Liang, Houxing Ren, Linjun Shou (寿林钧), Nan Duan, Ming Gong (YIMING), Daxin Jiang (姜大昕)

IJCAI 2022 | July 2022

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Keynote: Searching for a New and Better Future of Work

Jaime Teevan

International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2022

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Ada-Ranker: A Data Distribution Adaptive Ranking Paradigm for Sequential Recommendation

Xinyan Fan, Jianxun Lian, Wayne Xin Zhao, Zheng Liu, Chaozhuo Li, Xing Xie

SIGIR 2022 | July 2022

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A flexible framework for offline effectiveness metrics

Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Paul Thomas, Leif Azzopardi

International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2022

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Are We There Yet? A Decision Framework for Replacing Term-Based Retrieval with Dense Retrieval Systems

Sebastian Hofstätter, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Hamed Zamani, Allan Hanbury

June 2022

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Causal Inference in the Presence of Interference in Sponsored Search Advertising

Razieh Nabi, Joel Pfeiffer, Denis Charles, Emre Kiciman

Frontiers in Big Data | June 2022, Vol 5

Project

KDD 2022 Tutorial on Large-Scale Information Extraction under Privacy-Aware Constraints

In this digital age, people spend a significant portion of their lives online and this has led to an explosion of personal data from users and their activities. Typically, this data is private and no-body…

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DebiasGAN: Eliminating Position Bias in News Recommendation with Adversarial Learning

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Yongfeng Huang

EMNLP 2022 | June 2022

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