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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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Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback

Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen Robertson

SIGIR 2008: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | August 2008

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Selection Bias in the LETOR Datasets

Tom Minka

August 2008

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Boosting-Based Multimodal Speaker Detection for Distributed Meeting Videos

Cha Zhang, Pei Yin, Yong Rui, Ross Cutler, Paul Viola, Xinding Sun, Nelson Pinto, Zhengyou Zhang

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | August 2008, pp. 1541-1552

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Stream Prediction Using A Generative Model Based On Frequent Episodes In Event Sequences

Srivatsan Laxman, Vikram Tankasali, Ryen W. White

Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008), Las Vegas, USA | August 2008

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Learning from Multi-topic Web Documents for Contextual Advertisement

Yi Zhang, Arun C. Surendran, John Platt, Mukund Narasimhan

Proc. 14th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | August 2008

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A Pay-As-You-Go Framework for Query Execution Feedback

Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek Narasayya, Ravi Ramamurthy

VLDB | August 2008

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IGroup: Web Image Search Results Clustering

We develop IGroup, a Web image search engine that organizes the search results into semantic clusters. Different from all existing Web image search results clustering algorithms that only cluster the top few images using visual…

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To Personalize or Not to Personalize: Modeling Queries with Variation in User Intent

Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, Dan Liebling

Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 | July 2008

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Exploring Traversal Strategy for Web Forum Crawling

Yida Wang, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Rui Cai, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma

Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2008) | July 2008

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Exploring Ways to Make Search Better than Ever

July 18, 2008

By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Considering the ubiquitous use of search engines to guide users through the Internet, one might be excused for thinking that search functionality has been perfected and there is…

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