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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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Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies

Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais

WSDM 2012 | January 2012

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Motivating Users to Build Heritage Collections Using Games on Social Networks

Michelle Havenga, Kyle Williams, Hussein Suleman

Proceedings on the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries | January 2012

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A Deterministic Annealing Approach to Learning Bayesian Networks

Ahmed Awadallah, Amir Atiya, Ihab Talkhan

Artificial Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning | January 2012

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Task Tours: Helping Users Tackle Complex Search Tasks

Ahmed Awadallah, Ryen W. White

CIKM ’12 Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management | January 2012

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An Exploration of Ranking Heuristics in Mobile Local Search

, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Qiang Wu

International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | January 2012

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Personality and Website Choice

Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, Pushmeet Kohli, , Yoram Bachrach, Thore Graepel

ACM Web Sciences 2012 | January 2012

ACM Web Sciences 2012

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Personality and Patterns of Facebook Usage

Yoram Bachrach, , Michal Kosinski, Thore Graepel, Pushmeet Kohli, David Stillwell

ACM Web Sciences 2012 | January 2012

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No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs

Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen W. White

Proceedings of WSDM | January 2012

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Sketch2Cartoon: Composing Cartoon Images by Sketching

We built the Sketch2Cartoon system, which is an automatic cartoon making system. It enables users to sketch major curves of characters and props in their mind, and real-time search results from millions of clipart images…

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So.cl Gives Students a New Way to Learn

December 15, 2011

By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center The web, search, and social networking are changing the way students collaborate. To bring these elements together, Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs is launching a site designed to…

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