1 code implementation • 19 Sep 2023 • Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra
It takes careful feedback from real users, which by definition is the highest-quality first-party gold data that can be derived, and develops an large language model prompt that agrees with that data.
no code implementations • 12 Jan 2023 • Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, Nicholas Belkin
For decades, scholars made a case for the role that a user's task plays in how and why that user engages in search and what a search system should do to assist.
1 code implementation • 13 Sep 2021 • Mohammad Aliannejadi, Leif Azzopardi, Hamed Zamani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswel
In this paper, we present a model for conversational search -- from which we instantiate different observed conversational search strategies, where the agent elicits: (i) Feedback-First, or (ii) Feedback-After.
2 code implementations • 14 May 2020 • George G Vega Yon, Duncan C Thomas, John Morrison, Huaiyu Mi, Paul Thomas, Paul Marjoram
While very simple, our model of gene-function evolution has some key features that have the potential to generate an impact in the field: (a) compared to other methods, ours is highly-scalable, which means that it is possible to simultaneously analyze hundreds of what are known as gene-families, compromising thousands of genes, (b) supports our biological intuition as our model’s data-driven results coherently agree with what theory dictates regarding how gene-functions evolved, (c) notwithstanding its simplicity, the model’s prediction accuracy is comparable to other more complex alternatives, and (d) perhaps most importantly, it can be used to both support new annotations and to suggest areas in which existing annotations show inconsistencies that may indicate errors or controversies.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2019 • Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon
Conversation is the natural mode for information exchange in daily life, a spoken conversational interaction for search input and output is a logical format for information seeking.