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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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OneProvenance: Efficient Extraction of Dynamic Coarse-Grained Provenance From Database Query Event Logs

Fotis Psallidas, Ashvin Agrawal, Chandru Sugunan, Khaled Ibrahim, Konstantinos Karanasos, Jesus Camacho-Rodriguez, A. Floratou, C. Curino, R. Ramakrishnan

Proc. VLDB Endow. | August 2023, Vol 16: pp. 3662-3675

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Deep encoders with auxiliary parameters for extreme classification

Kunal Dahiya, Sachin Yadav, Sushant Sondhi, Deepak Saini, Sonu Mehta, Jian Jiao, Sumeet Agarwal, Purushottam Kar, Manik Varma

KDD 2023 | August 2023

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Can generative LLMs create query variants for test collections? An exploratory study

Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas

2023 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2023

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Patterns of gender-specializing query reformulation

Amifa Raj, Bhaskar Mitra, Nick Craswell, Michael D. Ekstrand

2023 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2023

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Towards Better Entity Linking with Multi-View Enhanced Distillation

Yi Liu, Yuan Tian, Jianxun Lian, Xinlong Wang, Yanan Cao, Fang Fang, Wen Zhang, Haizhen Huang, Denvy Deng, Qi Zhang

ACL 2023 | July 2023

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Personalized retrieval over millions of items

Hemanth Vemuri, Sheshansh Agrawal, Shivam Mittal, Deepak Saini, Akshay Soni, Abhinav V. Sambasivan, Wenhao Lu, Yajun Wang, Mehul Parsana, Purushottam Kar, Manik Varma

In Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2023

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Targeted Training for Multi-organization Recommendation

Kiran Tomlinson, Mengting Wan, Cao Lu, Jaime Teevan, Brent Hecht, Longqi Yang

ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems | July 2023, Vol 1(3)

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CONE: An Efficient COarse-to-fiNE Alignment Framework for Long Video Temporal Grounding

Zhijian Hou, Wanjun Zhong, Lei Ji, Difei Gao, Kun Yan, Wing-Kwong Chan, Chong-Wah Ngo, Zheng Shou, Nan Duan

ACL 2023 | May 2023

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In this edition: New research explores the causal ability of LLMs and DNA storage in thermoresponsive capsules; a talk on human-centered AI; and a CFP for funding for LLM productivity research projects from the Microsoft…

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