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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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Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

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UQV100: A Test Collection with Query Variability

Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas

Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2016) | July 2016

The UQV100 test collection described in this paper is available from http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/49/5726E597B8376.

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Is This Your Final Answer? Evaluating the Effect of Answers on Good Abandonment in Mobile Search

Kyle Williams, Julia Kiselava, Imed Zitouni, Aidan C. Crook, Ahmed Awadallah, Madian Khabsa

International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’16) | July 2016

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UQV100: A Test Collection with Query Variability

Peter Bailey, Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2016

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Neu-IR: The SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval

Nick Craswell, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Bhaskar Mitra

Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2016

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InLook: Revisiting Email Search Experience

Pranav Ramarao, Pushkar V. Chitnis, B. Ashok, Raghavendra Udupa, Suresh Parthasarathy

SIGIR ’16 | July 2016

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Automatic Identification and Contextual Reformulation of Implicit System-Related Queries

Adam Fourney, Susan Dumais

Proceedings of the 39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’16) | July 2016

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Personal Control of Data

July 13, 2016 | Butler Lampson

People around the world are concerned that more and more of their personal data is on the Internet, where it’s easy to find, copy, and link up with other data. Data about people’s presence and…

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Analyzing and Predicting Task Reminders

David Graus, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz

Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP ’16) | July 2016

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Preliminary KDD Cup 2016 third phase and overall results announced

July 7, 2016

By Alex Wade, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Research The preliminary results are in for the third and final round of the $10,000 KDD Cup 2016, and it was a squeaker! The top ten finalists, out…

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A Proposal for Evaluating Answer Distillation from Web Data

Bhaskar Mitra, Grady Simon, Jianfeng Gao, Nick Craswell, Li Deng

Proceedings of the Second WebQA Workshop (SIGIR 2016) | July 2016

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