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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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Evaluation Validity in Information Retrieval

Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White

2026 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026

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HOBIT: Hardness Optimized Batch Sampling for InfoNCE Training

Himanshu Dutta, Lokesh Nagalapatti, Yashoteja Prabhu

2026 International Conference on Machine Learning | July 2026

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An Eye Tracking Study: Are AI Overviews Changing Search Behavior?

Sara Allawati, Dana McKay, Mark Sanderson, Paul Thomas, Johanne R Trippas

2026 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2026

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Senior Applied Scientist – Core Search and AI team (Bing)

Posted: May 15, 2026

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Search and information retrieval

Core Search and AI team (Bing) is looking for people who want to build the next generation of search using advanced AI technologies, especially large language models, at scale. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced…

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Applied Scientist II – Core Search and AI team (Bing)

Posted: May 12, 2026

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Search and information retrieval

Core Search and AI team (Bing) is looking for people who want to build the next generation of search using advanced AI technologies, especially large language models, at scale. Our work spans a very large…

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DocQAC: Adaptive Trie-Guided Decoding for Effective In-Document Query Auto-Completion

Rahul Mehta, V. KavinR, Indrajit Pal, Tushar Abhishek, Pawan Goyal, Manish Gupta

April 2026

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Transparent and Controllable Recommendation Filtering via Multimodal Multi-Agent Collaboration

Chi Zhang, Zhipeng Xu, Jiahao Liu, Dongsheng Li, Hansu Gu, Peng Zhang, Ning Gu, T. Lu

April 2026

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HORIZON: A Benchmark for In-the-wild User Behaviour Modeling

Arnav Goel, Pranjal A. Chitale, Bhawna Paliwal, Bishal Santra, Amit Sharma

April 2026

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DUET: Joint Exploration of User Item Profiles in Recommendation System

Yue Chen, Yifei Sun, Lu Wang, Fangkai Yang, Pu Zhao, Minjie Hong, Yi Dong, Minghua He, Nan Hu, Jianjin Zhang, Zhiwei Dai, Yuefeng Zhan, Weihao Han, Hao Sun, Qingwei Lin, Weiwei Deng, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang

April 2026

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Strengthening the CHIIR community: Bridging interactive IR and HCI at CHI 2026

Haiming Liu, Rob Capra, Paul Thomas, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Morgan A Harvey, Rosie Jones, Chang Liu, Udo Kruschwitz, Stephann Makri, Laurianne Sitbon, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R Trippas

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2026

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