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From Barriers to Bridges: Designing Infrastructures for Help in Online Programming Communities

March 18, 2019 | Denae Ford Robinson

Online programming communities, like Stack Overflow, have norms that are not obvious nor inclusive to the 50 million programmers visiting monthly. For example, many novices ask questions that go unanswered or downvoted for not conforming…

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An updated duet model for passage re-ranking

Bhaskar Mitra, Nick Craswell

March 2019

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PAC Battling Bandits in the Plackett-Luce Model

Aadirupa Saha, Aditya Gopalan

Algorithmic Learning Theory | March 2019

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Towards Time-Aware Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction.

Tianwen Jiang, Sendong Zhao, Jing Liu, Jin-Ge Yao, Ming Liu, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Chin-Yew Lin

MSR-TR-2019-43 | March 2019

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SigmaDolphin

Building a computer system to automatically solve math word problems written in natural language. SigmaDolphin is a project initiated in early 2013 at Microsoft Research Asia, with the primary goal of building a computer intelligent…

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