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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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Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

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Algorithms for Active Classifier Selection: Maximizing Recall with Precision Constraints

Paul N. Bennett, David M. Chickering, Christopher Meek, Xiaojin Zhu

Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’17) | February 2017

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Neural Text Embeddings for Information Retrieval

Bhaskar Mitra, Nick Craswell

Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’17) | February 2017

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The WSDM 2017 Tutorial on Neural Text Embeddings for Information Retrieval

February 6, 2017 | Cambridge, UK

In the last few years, neural representation learning approaches have achieved very good performance on many natural language processing tasks, such as language modelling and machine translation. This suggests that neural models will also achieve…

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Communicating Context to the Crowd for Complex Writing Tasks

Niloufar Salehi, Jaime Teevan, Shamsi Iqbal, Ece Kamar

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2017), Portland, OR | February 2017

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Harnessing the Web for Population-Scale Physiological Sensing: A Case Study of Sleep and Performance

Tim Althoff, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, Jamie Zeitzer

MSR-TR-2017-2 | January 2017

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Learning for Efficient Supervised Query Expansion via Two-stage Feature Selection

Zhiwei Zhang, Qifan Wang, Luo Si, Jianfeng Gao

SIGIR 16 | January 2017

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Indexing in an Actor-Oriented Database

Phil Bernstein, Mohammad Dashti, Tim Kiefer, David Maier

Conference on Innovative Database Research (CIDR) | January 2017

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Phlat (Prototype for Helpful Lookup and Tagging)

Phlat is a new interface for Windows Desktop Search, enabling search through a user’s own e-mail, files, and viewed Web pages. Phlat makes it easy for users to specify queries and filters, attempting to integrate…

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Design and In-Situ Evaluation of a Mixed-Initiative Approach to Information Organization

Mona Haraty, Zhongyuan Wang, Helen Wang, Shamsi Iqbal, Jaime Teevan

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) | January 2017

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Report on the SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR)

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

SIGIR Forum | December 2016, Vol 50(2): pp. 96-103

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