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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

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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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Emancipatory Information Retrieval (Invited Talk at UCC)

April 22, 2025 | Bhaskar Mitra

Our world today is facing a confluence of several mutually reinforcing crises each of which intersects with concerns of social justice and emancipation. This talk will be a provocation for the role of computer-mediated information…

41:14

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Ideas: Accelerating Foundation Models Research: AI for all

March 31, 2025

Innovative AI research often depends on access to resources. Microsoft wants to help. Technical Advisor Evelyne Viegas and distinguished faculty from two Minority Serving Institutions discuss the benefits of Microsoft’s Accelerating Foundation Models Research program…

Microsoft Research Podcast | Ideas: Evelyne Viegas, Muhammed Idris, Cesar Torres

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Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures

Bhaskar Mitra

Information Retrieval Research Journal (IRRJ) | March 2025

Microsoft Research Blog

Semantic Telemetry: Understanding how users interact with AI systems

March 10, 2025 | Amber Hoak, Scott Counts, Kate Lytvynets, David Tittsworth, Siddharth Suri, Ben Cutler, Weiwei Yang

AI interactions can be iterative and complex. Learn how the Semantic Telemetry project at Microsoft Research is developing a new data science approach to understand human-AI interactions and their value.

Semantic Telemetry blog | diagram showing relationships between chat, LLM prompt, and labeled data

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Overview of the TREC 2024 Tip-of-the-Tongue Track

Jaime Arguello, Samarth Bhargav, Fernando Diaz, To Eun Kim, Yifan He, Evangelos Kanoulas, Bhaskar Mitra

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) | March 2025

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LLM4Eval@WSDM 2025: Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval

Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L A Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz

2025 Web Search and Data Mining | March 2025

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Tip of the Tongue Query Elicitation for Simulated Evaluation

Yifan He, To Eun Kim, Fernando Diaz, Jaime Arguello, Bhaskar Mitra

2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | February 2025

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Judging the Judges: A Collection of LLM-Generated Relevance Judgements

Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz

February 2025

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PIKE-RAG: sPecIalized KnowledgE and Rationale Augmented Generation

Jinyu Wang, Jingjing Fu, Rui Wang, Lei Song, Jiang Bian

February 2025

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Recall, Robustness, and Lexicographic Evaluation

Fernando Diaz, Michael D. Ekstrand, Bhaskar Mitra

ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems | February 2025

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