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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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Ranking Passages for Argument Convincingness

Peter Potash, Adam Ferguson, T. J. Hazen

6th Workshop on Argument Mining | August 2019

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Contextual Fact Ranking and Its Applications in Table Synthesis and Compression

Silu Huang, Jialu Liu, Flip Korn, Xuezhi Wang, You Wu, Dale Markowitz, Cong Yu

25TH ACM SIGKDD CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING (KDD) | August 2019

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Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale

July 24, 2019 | Qizhen Zhang

This paper presents GraphRex, an efficient, robust, scalable, and easy-to-program framework for graph processing on datacenter infrastructure. To users, GraphRex presents a declarative, Datalog-like interface that is natural and expressive. Underneath, it compiles those queries…

Qizhen Zhang giving a talk on Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale at Microsoft Research

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Lifelong Sequential Modeling with Personalized Memorization for User Response Prediction

Kan Ren, Jiarui Qin, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Lei Zheng, Weijie Bian, Guorui Zhou, Jian Xu, Yong Yu, Xiaoqiang Zhu, Kun Gai

SIGIR 2019 | July 2019

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cwl_eval: An evaluation tool for information retrieval

Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019

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Generic Intent Representation in Web Search

Hongfei Zhang, Xia Song, Chenyan Xiong, Corby Rosset, Paul Bennett, Nick Craswell, Saurabh Tiwary

The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) | July 2019

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Task Completion Detection

Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, Robert Sim

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) | July 2019

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Microsoft @ SIGIR 2019

July 21, 2019 – July 25, 2019 | Paris, France

Microsoft is excited to be a Gold sponsor of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. We will have over 16 Microsoft attendees present at the conference. Stop by…

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The Emotion Profile of Web Search

Gabriella Kazai, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019

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VERSE: Voice. Exploration. Retrieval. Search.

July 18, 2019 | Adam Fourney

People with visual impairments are expert users of audio interfaces, including voice-activated virtual assistants and screen readers. Through interviews and surveys of this population, we learned that virtual assistants are convenient and accessible, but lack…

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