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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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Calendar-Aware Proactive Email Recommendation

Qian Zhao, Paul Bennett, Adam Fourney, Anne Loomis Thompson, Shane Williams, Adam D. Troy, Susan Dumais

Proceedings of the 41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018) | July 2018

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Natural Language Interfaces with Fine-Grained User Interaction: A Case Study on Web APIs

Yu Su, Ahmed Awadallah, Miaosen Wang, Ryen W. White

Proceedings of the 41th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018) | July 2018

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Democratizing APIs with Natural Language Interfaces

July 2, 2018 | Ahmed Awadallah, Ryen W. White

Benefiting from a confluence of factors, such as service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, and Internet-of-Things (IoT), application program interfaces – APIs – are playing an increasingly important role in both the virtual and the physical world.…

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Characterizing and Supporting Question Answering in Human-to-Human Communication

X. Yang, Ahmed Awadallah, Madian Khabsa, Wei Wang, Miaosen Wang

Proceedings of the 41th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018) | June 2018

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Microsoft Research Montreal welcomes Fernando Diaz, Principal Researcher and lead of the new Montreal FATE Research Group

June 22, 2018

Microsoft Research Montreal further bolsters its research force this month, welcoming Fernando Diaz to the Montreal FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI) research group as Principal Researcher. Diaz, whose research area is the…

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Systems and methods for automated query answer generation

Saurabh Kumar Tiwary, Mir Rosenberg, Jianfeng Gao, Xia Song, Rangan Majumder, Li Deng

June 2018

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DCI – Distributed Causal Inference

Overview and Vision The Distributed Causal Inference (DCI) project explores ways to improve distributed systems technology and data query & storage functionality to enable and support answering causal inference questions from very-large-scale longitudinal and observational…

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