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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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Duplicate News Story Detection Revisited

Omar Alonso, Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse

The Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference | December 2013

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Personalization via Probabilistic Adaptation

David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, Bodo von Billerbeck

NIPS 2013 Workshop on Personalization (An extended abstract of work that first appeared in WSDM 2012) | December 2013

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Personalized Search: Potential and Pitfalls

Susan Dumais

December 2013

NIPS 2013 Workshop on Personalization, Keynote Talk

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Knowledge Computing

The Knowledge Computing group at Microsoft Research Asia aims to build machines that can make good use of knowledge to empower every person on the planet to achieve more. Natural language processing, information extraction, table interpretation, and knowledge representation & reasoning are four main focus areas. Natural language processing (NLP) analyzes, understands, and generates languages for effective and…

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Semantic Frame-Based Document Representation for Comparable Corpora

Hyungsul Kim, Xiang Ren, Yizhou Sun, Chi Wang, Jiawei Han

Proceeding of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining | December 2013

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Unsupervised Ranking for Plagiarism Source Retrieval

Kyle Williams, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, C. Lee Giles

PAN AT CLEF 2013 | December 2013

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Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball

Doug Terry

Communications of the ACM | December 2013, Vol 56(12): pp. 82-89

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Unsupervised Induction and Filling of Semantic Slots for Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Frame-Semantic Parsing

Yun-Nung Chen, William Yang Wang, Alexander I. Rudnicky

Proceedings of 2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2013) | December 2013

Best Student Paper Award (1/~170; < 0.6%)

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Promoting Civil Discourse Through Search Engine Diversity

Elad Yom-Tov, Susan Dumais, Qi Guo

Social Science Computer Review | November 2013

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Multimedia Search and Mining

Multimedia Search and Mining (MSM) group focuses on a wide variety of multimedia-related research and projects, e.g., understanding, analysis, search, data mining, and applications.

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