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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

ICRA 2024 conference recap blog - RASCAL library

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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Report on the future conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021

Damiano Spina, Johanne R Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Paul Owoicho, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russell, Laurianne Sitbon

SIGIR Forum | June 2021, Vol 55(1): pp. 1-22

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NeuSE: A Neural Snapshot Ensemble Method for Collaborative Filtering

Dongsheng Li, Haodong Liu, Chao Chen, Yingying Zhao, Stephen M. Chu, Bo Yang

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery From Data | May 2021, Vol 15(6): pp. 1-20

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Scalable and Explainable 1-Bit Matrix Completion via Graph Signal Learning

Chao Chen, Dongsheng Li, Junchi Yan, Hanchi Huang, Xiaokang Yang

Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | May 2021

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SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award Talk: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Search (CHI 2020)

May 8, 2021 | Susan Dumais

CHI ’21: The 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Session: Awards: SIGCHI 2020 Award Talks Speaker: Susan Dumais I have long been interested in how people seek information from external sources…

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Glider

We release Glider, a reinforcement learning agent to extract UI scripts from the web. Given a website URL (e.g., http://www.unitconversion.org/ (opens in new tab)) and a task description in natural language (e.g., “convert length 7333…

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FreshDiskANN: A Fast and Accurate Graph-Based ANN Index for Streaming Similarity Search

Harsha Simhadri, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy

May 2021

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Intra-Document Cascading: Learning to Select Passages for Neural Document Ranking

Sebastian Hofstatter, Bhaskar Mitra, Hamed Zamani, Nick Craswell, Allan Hanbury

Proceedings of the 44th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval | May 2021

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Not All Relevance Scores are Equal: Efficient Uncertainty and Calibration Modeling for Deep Retrieval Models

Daniel Cohen, Bhaskar Mitra, Oleg Lesota, Navid Rekabsaz, Carsten Eickhoff

Proceedings of the 44th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval | May 2021

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distPURL

An SDK that provides the tools necessary to improve ranking by combining distance embeddings using integer linear programming (ILP; https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10700 (opens in new tab)). This results in a more accurate optimized ranking of nodes relative…

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Approximate nearest neighbor Negative Contrastive Estimation (ANCE)

A novel embedding training algorithm leveraging ANN search and achieved SOTA retrieval on Trec DL 2019 and OpenQA benchmarks.

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