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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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Applied Scientist – Information Extraction team in Shopping

Posted: August 27, 2025

Location: Cairo, Egypt

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Data platforms and analytics, Search and information retrieval

The information extraction team in shopping is seeking a highly motivated and talented Applied Scientist to work on cutting-edge technologies in the field of information extraction in the shopping domain. As an Applied Scientist you will…

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Applied Scientist 2 – M365 Copilot team

Posted: August 4, 2025

Location: Beijing, China; Suzhou, China

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Data platforms and analytics, Programming languages and software engineering, Search and information retrieval

As part of the M365 Copilot team, we are building enterprise-grade agentic web infrastructure, enabling advanced browser and search tools for both public and private web ecosystems. As the web remains the largest and most…

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Cognitive Loop via In-Situ Optimization: Self-Adaptive Reasoning for Science

Newman Cheng, Gordon Broadbent, William Chappell

August 2025

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Principal Researcher – Sociotechnical Systems – Microsoft Research

Posted: July 29, 2025

Location: Cambridge, MA, US

Research Area(s): Human-computer interaction, Search and information retrieval, Security, privacy, and cryptography, Social sciences

Microsoft Research New England is looking for a new full-time, Principal Researcher who brings sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. You will join the Sociotechnical Systems area, a team of social scientists…

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DistributedANN: Efficient Scaling of a Single DiskANN Graph Across Thousands of Computers

Philip Adams, Menghao Li, Shi Zhang, Li Tan, Mingqin Li, Qi Chen, Knut Magne Risvik, Jason (Zengzhong) Li, Harsha Simhadri

The 1st Workshop on Vector Databases at the 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning | July 2025

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System comparison using automated generation of relevance judgements in multiple languages

Paul Thomas, Douglas W Oard, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield

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

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MOGIC: Metadata-Infused Oracle Guidance for Improved Extreme Classification

Suchith Chidananda Prabhu, Bhavyajeet Singh, Anshul Mittal, Siddarth Asokan, Shikhar Mohan, Deepak Saini, Yashoteja Prabhu, Lakshya Kumar, Jian Jiao, Amit Singh, Niket Tandon, Manish Gupta, Sumeet Agarwal, Manik Varma

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Graph-Based Algorithms for Diverse Similarity Search

Piyush Anand, Piotr Indyk, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Sepideh Mahabadi, Vikas C. Raykar, Kiran Shiragur, Haike Xu

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Demographically-inspired query variants using an LLM

Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson

International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025

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Preaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR should share with AI

Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P de Vries, Guido Zuccon

International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025

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