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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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Microsoft Ability Initiative: A collaborative quest to innovate in image captioning for people who are blind or with low vision

January 16, 2019 | Meredith Ringel Morris

Microsoft is committed to pushing the boundaries of technology to improve and positively influence all parts of society. Recent advances in deep learning and related AI techniques have resulted in significant strides in automated image…

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Deep4Cast

Deep4Cast is a scalable machine learning package implemented in Python. It has a front-end API designed to be similar to scikit-learn, but is based on Keras. It was designed for medium to large size time…

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Demographic differences in search engine use with implications for cohort selection

Elad Yom-Tov

Information Retrieval Journal | January 2019

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Demographic differences in search engine use with implications for cohort selection

Information Retrieval Journal | January 2019

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Be Greedy: How Chromatic Number meets Regret Minimization in Graph Bandits.

Aadirupa Saha, Shreyas Sheshadri, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | December 2018

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An Introduction to Neural Information Retrieval

Bhaskar Mitra, Nick Craswell

Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval | December 2018, Vol 13(1): pp. 1-126

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Better effectiveness metrics for SERPs, cards, and rankings

Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, Peter Bailey, Falk Scholer, Nick Craswell

Australasian Document Computing Symposium | December 2018

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Knowledge Technologies and Intelligent Experiences (KTX)

Knowledge Technologies and Intelligent Experiences (KTX) develops new AI technologies and AI-powered user experiences that enable individuals, teams, and enterprises to achieve more. We perform research and advanced development on projects that make and utilize…

Microsoft Research Blog

Cracking code-mixing — an important step in making human-computer interaction more engaging

November 1, 2018 | Monojit Choudhury

Communication is a large part of who we are as human beings, and today, technology has allowed us to communicate in new ways and to audiences much larger and wider than ever before. That technology…

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LinkSO: A Benchmark for Learning to Retrieve Similar Question-Answer Pairs on Software Development Forums

Xueqing Liu, Chi Wang, Yue Leng, Chengxiang Zhai

ESEC/FSE Workshop on NLP for Software Engineering (NL4SE’18) | November 2018

Search and information retrieval

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