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Search and information retrieval

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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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Learning About Work Tasks to Inform Intelligent Assistant Design

Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Ahmed Awadallah, Peter Bailey, Paul Bennett, Ryen W. White, Jonathan Liono, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson

The Fourth ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2019) | March 2019

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Shaping Feedback Data in Recommender Systems with Interventions Based on Information Foraging Theory

Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, Thorsten Joachims

The 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019) | March 2019

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Data sets for spoken conversational search

Johanne Trippas, Paul Thomas

Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2019

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Understanding Context for Tasks and Activities

Jan Benetka, John Krumm, Paul Bennett

The Fourth ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2019) | March 2019

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Characterizing and Predicting Email Deferral Behaviour

Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Ahmed Awadallah, Christopher Lin, CJ Lee, Milad Shokouhi, Susan Dumais

The Twelfth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) | February 2019

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Task Duration Estimation

Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah

The Twelfth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) | February 2019

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Domain Adaptation for Commitment Detection in Email

Hosein Azarbonyad, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White

Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’19) | February 2019

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Microsoft @ WSDM 2019

February 11, 2019 – February 15, 2019 | Melbourne, Australia

Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of the 12th ACM International conference on Web Search and Data Mining Come by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research…

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Getting efficient with “What-happens-if …”

February 1, 2019 | Adith Swaminathan, Emre Kiciman

Causal inference studies the relationship between causes and effects. For example, one kind of question that causal inference can answer is the “What-happens-if …” question. What happens if I take a specific medication? What happens…

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Slice: Scalable Linear Extreme Classifiers trained on 100 Million Labels for Related Searches

Himanshu Jain, Venkatesh Balasubramanian, Bhanu Chunduri, Manik Varma

WSDM ’19 | February 2019

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