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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

ICRA 2024 conference recap blog - RASCAL library

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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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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Emancipatory Information Retrieval

Bhaskar Mitra

February 2025

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025

January 31, 2025

In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.

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Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation

Liang Wang, Haonan Chen, Nan Yang, Xiaolong Huang, Zhicheng Dou, Furu Wei

January 2025

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JudgeBlender: Ensembling Judgments for Automatic Relevance Assessment

Hossein A. Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra

2025 The Web Conference | January 2025

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SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval

Hossein A. Rahmani, Xi Wang, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas

2025 The Web Conference | January 2025

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025

January 17, 2025

In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.

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