{"id":675603,"date":"2020-07-17T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=675603"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:52:35","slug":"sigir-2020","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/sigir-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at SIGIR 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Website:<\/strong> SIGIR 2020 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (SIGIR). You can see detailed information on our contributions to the program below and on the Accepted papers tab.<\/p>\n

Committee Members<\/h2>\n

Industry Co-chair:<\/strong> Milad Shokouhi (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Doctoral Consortium Co-chair:<\/strong> Gabriella Kazai (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Women-in-IR Co-chair:<\/strong> Xin Ma<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Live chat with us<\/h2>\n

Join us (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> to chat with our experts, hear about our latest research, and find out about open opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Monday, July 27<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM\u201310:00 AM PDT
\n(Tuesday 00:00\u201301:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\n		Amy Siebenthaler (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nBhaskar Mitra (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTobias Schnabel (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 PM\u201310:00 PM PDT
\n(Tuesday 12:00\u201313:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\n		Paul Bennett (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nSubho Mukherjee (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 28<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM\u201310:00 AM PDT
\n(Wednesday 00:00\u201301:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\n		Hamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMary Czerwinski (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nArnav Jain (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nAmy Siebenthaler (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 PM\u201310:00 PM PDT
\n(Wednesday 12:00\u201313:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\n		Hamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nPaul Thomas (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nArnav Jain (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

*Times are in GMT+8<\/em><\/p>\n

Monday, July 27<\/h2>\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1A \u2013 Neural IR and Semantic Matching<\/h3>\n

A Deep Recurrent Survival Model for Unbiased Ranking<\/strong>
\nJiarui\u00a0Jin,\u00a0Yuchen Fang,\u00a0Weinan\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Kan Ren<\/a>,\u00a0Guorui\u00a0Zhou,\u00a0Jian Xu,\u00a0Yong Yu,\u00a0Jun Wang,\u00a0Xiaoqiang\u00a0Zhu,\u00a0Kun\u00a0Gai<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1A \u2013 Neural IR and Semantic Matching<\/h3>\n

A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAli\u00a0Montazeralghaem,\u00a0Hamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0James Allan<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1C \u2013 Graph-based Analysis<\/h3>\n

Interactive Recommender System via Knowledge Graph-enhanced Reinforcement Learning\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSijin\u00a0Zhou,\u00a0Xinyi Dai,\u00a0Haokun\u00a0Chen,\u00a0Weinan\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Kan Ren<\/a>,\u00a0Ruiming\u00a0Tang,\u00a0Xiuqiang\u00a0He,\u00a0Yong Yu<\/p>\n

\n

15:40 \u2013 18:00 | Session 2A \u2013 Knowledge for Personalization<\/h3>\n

Leveraging Demonstrations for Reinforcement Recommendation Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs\u00a0<\/strong>
\nKangzhi\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Xiting Wang<\/a>,\u00a0Yuren\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Li Zhao<\/a>, Zheng Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Chunxiao\u00a0Xing,\u00a0Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Short Paper Session II<\/h3>\n

CapableOf\u00a0reasoning: A step towards commonsense oracle<\/strong>
\nJingping\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Yanghua\u00a0Xiao,\u00a0Ao\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0Bin Shao<\/a><\/p>\n

Contextual Re-Ranking with Behavior Aware Transformers<\/strong>
\nChen Qu,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Yizhe Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Corby Rosset<\/a>,\u00a0W. Bruce Croft,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n

Graph Regularization for Multi-lingual Topic Models<\/strong>
\nArnav Kumar Jain (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Gundeep\u00a0Arora (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Rahul Agrawal<\/b><\/p>\n

Proactive Suggestion\u00a0Generation:Data\u00a0and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance<\/strong>
\nElnaz Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0Ryen White<\/a>,\u00a0Robert Sim<\/a>,\u00a0Adam Fourney<\/a><\/p>\n

Recipe Retrieval with Visual Query of Ingredients<\/strong>
\nYen-Chieh\u00a0Lien,\u00a0Hamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Bruce Croft<\/p>\n

Studying Ransomware Attacks Using Web Search Logs<\/strong>
\nChetan Bansal<\/a>,\u00a0Pantazis\u00a0Deligiannis<\/a>,\u00a0Chandra Sekhar Maddila (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Nikitha\u00a0Rao (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 3A \u2013 Bias and Fairness<\/h3>\n

Operationalizing the Legal Principle of Data Minimization for Personalization\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAsia J.\u00a0Biega<\/a>,\u00a0Peter Potash<\/a>,\u00a0Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>,\u00a0Fernando Diaz<\/a>,\u00a0Mich\u00e8le\u00a0Finck<\/p>\n

\n

Tuesday, July 28<\/h2>\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 4C \u2013 Neural Networks and Embedding<\/h3>\n

Knowledge Enhanced Personalized Search\u00a0<\/strong>
\nShuqi\u00a0Lu,\u00a0Zhicheng\u00a0Dou,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Xiaojie\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Ji-Rong Wen<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 4C \u2013 Neural Networks and Embedding<\/h3>\n

An Eye Tracking Study of Web Search by People with and without Dyslexia<\/strong><\/a>
\nSrishti Palani,\u00a0Adam Fourney<\/a>, Shane Williams<\/a>, Kevin Larson (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Irina Spiridonova<\/a>, Meredith Ringel Morris<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

20:00 \u2013 22:00 | TOIS Paper Session II<\/h3>\n

Investigating Searchers\u2019 Mental Models to Inform Search Explanations
\n<\/strong>Paul Thomas<\/a>, Bodo Billerbeck<\/a>, Nick Craswell<\/a>, Ryen W. White<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Short Paper Session II<\/h3>\n

CAsT-19: A Dataset for Research on Conversational Information Seeking<\/strong>
\nJeffrey Dalton,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Vaibhav Kumar,\u00a0Jamie Callan<\/p>\n

DC-BERT: Decoupling Question and Document for Efficient Contextual Encoding<\/strong>
\nPing\u00a0Nie,\u00a0Yuyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Xiubo\u00a0Geng<\/a>,\u00a0Ramamurthy Arun,\u00a0Le Song,\u00a0Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n

Few-Shot Generative Conversational Query Rewriting<\/strong>
\nShi Yu,\u00a0Jiahua\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Jingqin\u00a0Yang,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0Zhiyuan\u00a0Liu<\/p>\n

Improving Document-Level Text Retrieval using Local Attention in the Transformer-Kernel Pooling Model<\/strong>
\nSebastian\u00a0Hofst\u00e4tter,\u00a0Hamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Allan Hanbury<\/p>\n

Improving Matching Models with Hierarchical Contextualized Representations for Multi-turn Response Selection<\/strong>
\nChongyang\u00a0Tao,\u00a0Wei Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Yansong\u00a0Feng,\u00a0Dongyan\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Rui Yan<\/p>\n

On the Reliability of Test Collections to Evaluating Systems of Different Types<\/strong>
\nEmine\u00a0Yilmaz,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Daniel Campos (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Demo Paper Session II<\/h3>\n

Macaw: An Extensible Conversational Information Seeking Platform<\/strong>
\nHamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 6A \u2013 Neural Collaborative Filtering 1<\/h3>\n

The Impact of More Transparent Interfaces on Behavior in Personalized Recommendation\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTobias Schnabel<\/a>, Paul Bennett<\/a>, Saleema Amershi<\/a>, Peter Bailey<\/a>,\u00a0Thorsten\u00a0Joachims<\/p>\n

\n

22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 6B \u2013 Domain Specific Applications 2<\/h3>\n

Learning with Weak Supervision for Email Intent Detection\u00a0<\/strong>
\nKai Shu,\u00a0Subhabrata Mukherjee<\/a>, Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Wednesday, July 29<\/h2>\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\n

Neural Representation Learning for Clarification in Conversational Search\u00a0<\/strong>
\nHelia\u00a0Hashemi,\u00a0Hamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Bruce Croft<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\n

What If Bots Feel Moods? Towards Controllable Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems with Emotion-Aware Transition Networks\u00a0<\/strong>
\nLisong\u00a0Qiu,\u00a0Ying Wai\u00a0<\/b>Shiu<\/b>,\u00a0Pingping<\/b>\u00a0Lin<\/b>, Ruihua Song<\/a>, Yue Liu<\/b>,\u00a0Dongyan\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Rui Yan<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\n

Expressions of Style in Information Seeking Conversation with an Agent\u00a0<\/strong>
\nPaul Thomas<\/a>,\u00a0Daniel Mcduff<\/a>,\u00a0Mary Czerwinski<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\n

Analyzing and Learning from User Interactions for Search Clarification<\/strong>
\nHamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Everest Chen,\u00a0Gord\u00a0Lueck (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Fernando Diaz<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

16:40 \u2013 17:00 | Session 2B \u2013 User Behavior and Experience<\/h3>\n

Octopus: Comprehensive and Elastic User Representation for the Generation of Recommendation Candidates<\/strong>
\nZheng Liu<\/a>, Junhan Yang, Jianxun Lian<\/a>, Defu Lian, Xing Xie<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Website:<\/strong> SIGIR 2020 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (SIGIR). You can see detailed information on our contributions to the program below and on the Accepted papers tab.<\/p>\n

Committee Members<\/h2>\n

Industry Co-chair:<\/strong> Milad Shokouhi (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Doctoral Consortium Co-chair:<\/strong> Gabriella Kazai (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Women-in-IR Co-chair:<\/strong> Xin Ma<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Live chat with us<\/h2>\n

Join us (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> to chat with our experts, hear about our latest research, and find out about open opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Monday, July 27<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM\u201310:00 AM PDT
\n(Tuesday 00:00\u201301:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\n		Amy Siebenthaler (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nBhaskar Mitra (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTobias Schnabel (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 PM\u201310:00 PM PDT
\n(Tuesday 12:00\u201313:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\n		Paul Bennett (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nSubho Mukherjee (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, July 28<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM\u201310:00 AM PDT
\n(Wednesday 00:00\u201301:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\n		Hamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMary Czerwinski (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nArnav Jain (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nAmy Siebenthaler (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 PM\u201310:00 PM PDT
\n(Wednesday 12:00\u201313:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\n		Hamed Zamani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nPaul Thomas (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nArnav Jain (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

*Times are in GMT+8<\/em><\/p>\n

Monday, July 27<\/h2>\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1A \u2013 Neural IR and Semantic Matching<\/h3>\n

A Deep Recurrent Survival Model for Unbiased Ranking<\/strong>
\nJiarui\u00a0Jin,\u00a0Yuchen Fang,\u00a0Weinan\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Kan Ren<\/a>,\u00a0Guorui\u00a0Zhou,\u00a0Jian Xu,\u00a0Yong Yu,\u00a0Jun Wang,\u00a0Xiaoqiang\u00a0Zhu,\u00a0Kun\u00a0Gai<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1A \u2013 Neural IR and Semantic Matching<\/h3>\n

A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAli\u00a0Montazeralghaem,\u00a0Hamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0James Allan<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1C \u2013 Graph-based Analysis<\/h3>\n

Interactive Recommender System via Knowledge Graph-enhanced Reinforcement Learning\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSijin\u00a0Zhou,\u00a0Xinyi Dai,\u00a0Haokun\u00a0Chen,\u00a0Weinan\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Kan Ren<\/a>,\u00a0Ruiming\u00a0Tang,\u00a0Xiuqiang\u00a0He,\u00a0Yong Yu<\/p>\n

\n

15:40 \u2013 18:00 | Session 2A \u2013 Knowledge for Personalization<\/h3>\n

Leveraging Demonstrations for Reinforcement Recommendation Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs\u00a0<\/strong>
\nKangzhi\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Xiting Wang<\/a>,\u00a0Yuren\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Li Zhao<\/a>, Zheng Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Chunxiao\u00a0Xing,\u00a0Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Short Paper Session II<\/h3>\n

CapableOf\u00a0reasoning: A step towards commonsense oracle<\/strong>
\nJingping\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Yanghua\u00a0Xiao,\u00a0Ao\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0Bin Shao<\/a><\/p>\n

Contextual Re-Ranking with Behavior Aware Transformers<\/strong>
\nChen Qu,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Yizhe Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Corby Rosset<\/a>,\u00a0W. Bruce Croft,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n

Graph Regularization for Multi-lingual Topic Models<\/strong>
\nArnav Kumar Jain<\/a>,\u00a0Gundeep\u00a0Arora<\/a>,\u00a0Rahul Agrawal<\/b><\/p>\n

Proactive Suggestion\u00a0Generation:Data\u00a0and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance<\/strong>
\nElnaz Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0Ryen White<\/a>,\u00a0Robert Sim<\/a>,\u00a0Adam Fourney<\/a><\/p>\n

Recipe Retrieval with Visual Query of Ingredients<\/strong>
\nYen-Chieh\u00a0Lien,\u00a0Hamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Bruce Croft<\/p>\n

Studying Ransomware Attacks Using Web Search Logs<\/strong>
\nChetan Bansal<\/a>,\u00a0Pantazis\u00a0Deligiannis<\/a>,\u00a0Chandra Sekhar Maddila<\/a>,\u00a0Nikitha\u00a0Rao<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 3A \u2013 Bias and Fairness<\/h3>\n

Operationalizing the Legal Principle of Data Minimization for Personalization\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAsia J.\u00a0Biega<\/a>,\u00a0Peter Potash<\/a>,\u00a0Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>,\u00a0Fernando Diaz<\/a>,\u00a0Mich\u00e8le\u00a0Finck<\/p>\n

\n

Tuesday, July 28<\/h2>\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 4C \u2013 Neural Networks and Embedding<\/h3>\n

Knowledge Enhanced Personalized Search\u00a0<\/strong>
\nShuqi\u00a0Lu,\u00a0Zhicheng\u00a0Dou,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Xiaojie\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Ji-Rong Wen<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 4C \u2013 Neural Networks and Embedding<\/h3>\n

An Eye Tracking Study of Web Search by People with and without Dyslexia<\/strong><\/a>
\nSrishti Palani,\u00a0Adam Fourney<\/a>, Shane Williams<\/a>, Kevin Larson<\/a>, Irina Spiridonova<\/a>, Meredith Ringel Morris<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

20:00 \u2013 22:00 | TOIS Paper Session II<\/h3>\n

Investigating Searchers\u2019 Mental Models to Inform Search Explanations
\n<\/strong>Paul Thomas<\/a>, Bodo Billerbeck<\/a>, Nick Craswell<\/a>, Ryen W. White<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Short Paper Session II<\/h3>\n

CAsT-19: A Dataset for Research on Conversational Information Seeking<\/strong>
\nJeffrey Dalton,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Vaibhav Kumar,\u00a0Jamie Callan<\/p>\n

DC-BERT: Decoupling Question and Document for Efficient Contextual Encoding<\/strong>
\nPing\u00a0Nie,\u00a0Yuyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Xiubo\u00a0Geng<\/a>,\u00a0Ramamurthy Arun,\u00a0Le Song,\u00a0Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n

Few-Shot Generative Conversational Query Rewriting<\/strong>
\nShi Yu,\u00a0Jiahua\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Jingqin\u00a0Yang,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0Zhiyuan\u00a0Liu<\/p>\n

Improving Document-Level Text Retrieval using Local Attention in the Transformer-Kernel Pooling Model<\/strong>
\nSebastian\u00a0Hofst\u00e4tter,\u00a0Hamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Allan Hanbury<\/p>\n

Improving Matching Models with Hierarchical Contextualized Representations for Multi-turn Response Selection<\/strong>
\nChongyang\u00a0Tao,\u00a0Wei Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Yansong\u00a0Feng,\u00a0Dongyan\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Rui Yan<\/p>\n

On the Reliability of Test Collections to Evaluating Systems of Different Types<\/strong>
\nEmine\u00a0Yilmaz,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Daniel Campos<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Demo Paper Session II<\/h3>\n

Macaw: An Extensible Conversational Information Seeking Platform<\/strong>
\nHamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 6A \u2013 Neural Collaborative Filtering 1<\/h3>\n

The Impact of More Transparent Interfaces on Behavior in Personalized Recommendation\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTobias Schnabel<\/a>, Paul Bennett<\/a>, Saleema Amershi<\/a>, Peter Bailey<\/a>,\u00a0Thorsten\u00a0Joachims<\/p>\n

\n

22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 6B \u2013 Domain Specific Applications 2<\/h3>\n

Learning with Weak Supervision for Email Intent Detection\u00a0<\/strong>
\nKai Shu,\u00a0Subhabrata Mukherjee<\/a>, Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Wednesday, July 29<\/h2>\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\n

Neural Representation Learning for Clarification in Conversational Search\u00a0<\/strong>
\nHelia\u00a0Hashemi,\u00a0Hamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Bruce Croft<\/p>\n

\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\n

What If Bots Feel Moods? Towards Controllable Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems with Emotion-Aware Transition Networks\u00a0<\/strong>
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9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\n

Expressions of Style in Information Seeking Conversation with an Agent\u00a0<\/strong>
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9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\n

Analyzing and Learning from User Interactions for Search Clarification<\/strong>
\nHamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Everest Chen,\u00a0Gord\u00a0Lueck<\/a>,\u00a0Fernando Diaz<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>\n

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16:40 \u2013 17:00 | Session 2B \u2013 User Behavior and Experience<\/h3>\n

Octopus: Comprehensive and Elastic User Representation for the Generation of Recommendation Candidates<\/strong>
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9:00 AM\u201310:00 AM PDT\r\n(Wednesday 00:00\u201301:00 UTC+8)<\/td>\r\nHamed Zamani<\/a>\r\nMary Czerwinski<\/a>\r\nArnav Jain<\/a>\r\nAmy Siebenthaler<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Monday, July 27<\/h2>\r\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1A \u2013 Neural IR and Semantic Matching<\/h3>\r\nA Deep Recurrent Survival Model for Unbiased Ranking<\/strong>\r\nJiarui\u00a0Jin,\u00a0Yuchen Fang,\u00a0Weinan\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Kan Ren<\/a>,\u00a0Guorui\u00a0Zhou,\u00a0Jian Xu,\u00a0Yong Yu,\u00a0Jun Wang,\u00a0Xiaoqiang\u00a0Zhu,\u00a0Kun\u00a0Gai\r\n\r\n
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9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1A \u2013 Neural IR and Semantic Matching<\/h3>\r\nA Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nAli\u00a0Montazeralghaem,\u00a0Hamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0James Allan\r\n\r\n
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9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 1C \u2013 Graph-based Analysis<\/h3>\r\nInteractive Recommender System via Knowledge Graph-enhanced Reinforcement Learning\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nSijin\u00a0Zhou,\u00a0Xinyi Dai,\u00a0Haokun\u00a0Chen,\u00a0Weinan\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Kan Ren<\/a>,\u00a0Ruiming\u00a0Tang,\u00a0Xiuqiang\u00a0He,\u00a0Yong Yu\r\n\r\n
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15:40 \u2013 18:00 | Session 2A \u2013 Knowledge for Personalization<\/h3>\r\nLeveraging Demonstrations for Reinforcement Recommendation Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nKangzhi\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Xiting Wang<\/a>,\u00a0Yuren\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Li Zhao<\/a>, Zheng Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Chunxiao\u00a0Xing,\u00a0Xing Xie<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Short Paper Session II<\/h3>\r\nCapableOf\u00a0reasoning: A step towards commonsense oracle<\/strong>\r\nJingping\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Yanghua\u00a0Xiao,\u00a0Ao\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0Bin Shao<\/a>\r\n\r\nContextual Re-Ranking with Behavior Aware Transformers<\/strong>\r\nChen Qu,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Yizhe Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Corby Rosset<\/a>,\u00a0W. Bruce Croft,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a>\r\n\r\nGraph Regularization for Multi-lingual Topic Models<\/strong>\r\nArnav Kumar Jain<\/a>,\u00a0Gundeep\u00a0Arora<\/a>,\u00a0Rahul Agrawal<\/b>\r\n\r\nProactive Suggestion\u00a0Generation:Data\u00a0and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance<\/strong>\r\nElnaz Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0Ryen White<\/a>,\u00a0Robert Sim<\/a>,\u00a0Adam Fourney<\/a>\r\n\r\nRecipe Retrieval with Visual Query of Ingredients<\/strong>\r\nYen-Chieh\u00a0Lien,\u00a0Hamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Bruce Croft\r\n\r\nStudying Ransomware Attacks Using Web Search Logs<\/strong>\r\nChetan Bansal<\/a>,\u00a0Pantazis\u00a0Deligiannis<\/a>,\u00a0Chandra Sekhar Maddila<\/a>,\u00a0Nikitha\u00a0Rao<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 3A \u2013 Bias and Fairness<\/h3>\r\nOperationalizing the Legal Principle of Data Minimization for Personalization\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nAsia J.\u00a0Biega<\/a>,\u00a0Peter Potash<\/a>,\u00a0Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>,\u00a0Fernando Diaz<\/a>,\u00a0Mich\u00e8le\u00a0Finck\r\n\r\n
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Tuesday, July 28<\/h2>\r\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 4C \u2013 Neural Networks and Embedding<\/h3>\r\nKnowledge Enhanced Personalized Search\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nShuqi\u00a0Lu,\u00a0Zhicheng\u00a0Dou,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Xiaojie\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Ji-Rong Wen\r\n\r\n
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9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 4C \u2013 Neural Networks and Embedding<\/h3>\r\nAn Eye Tracking Study of Web Search by People with and without Dyslexia<\/strong><\/a>\r\nSrishti Palani,\u00a0Adam Fourney<\/a>, Shane Williams<\/a>, Kevin Larson<\/a>, Irina Spiridonova<\/a>, Meredith Ringel Morris<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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20:00 \u2013 22:00 | TOIS Paper Session II<\/h3>\r\nInvestigating Searchers\u2019 Mental Models to Inform Search Explanations\r\n<\/strong>Paul Thomas<\/a>, Bodo Billerbeck<\/a>, Nick Craswell<\/a>, Ryen W. White<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Short Paper Session II<\/h3>\r\nCAsT-19: A Dataset for Research on Conversational Information Seeking<\/strong>\r\nJeffrey Dalton,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Vaibhav Kumar,\u00a0Jamie Callan\r\n\r\nDC-BERT: Decoupling Question and Document for Efficient Contextual Encoding<\/strong>\r\nPing\u00a0Nie,\u00a0Yuyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Xiubo\u00a0Geng<\/a>,\u00a0Ramamurthy Arun,\u00a0Le Song,\u00a0Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\nFew-Shot Generative Conversational Query Rewriting<\/strong>\r\nShi Yu,\u00a0Jiahua\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Jingqin\u00a0Yang,\u00a0Chenyan Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0Zhiyuan\u00a0Liu\r\n\r\nImproving Document-Level Text Retrieval using Local Attention in the Transformer-Kernel Pooling Model<\/strong>\r\nSebastian\u00a0Hofst\u00e4tter,\u00a0Hamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Allan Hanbury\r\n\r\nImproving Matching Models with Hierarchical Contextualized Representations for Multi-turn Response Selection<\/strong>\r\nChongyang\u00a0Tao,\u00a0Wei Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Yansong\u00a0Feng,\u00a0Dongyan\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Rui Yan\r\n\r\nOn the Reliability of Test Collections to Evaluating Systems of Different Types<\/strong>\r\nEmine\u00a0Yilmaz,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Daniel Campos<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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20:00 \u2013 22:00 | Demo Paper Session II<\/h3>\r\nMacaw: An Extensible Conversational Information Seeking Platform<\/strong>\r\nHamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 6A \u2013 Neural Collaborative Filtering 1<\/h3>\r\nThe Impact of More Transparent Interfaces on Behavior in Personalized Recommendation\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nTobias Schnabel<\/a>, Paul Bennett<\/a>, Saleema Amershi<\/a>, Peter Bailey<\/a>,\u00a0Thorsten\u00a0Joachims\r\n\r\n
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22:00 \u2013 24:00 | Session 6B \u2013 Domain Specific Applications 2<\/h3>\r\nLearning with Weak Supervision for Email Intent Detection\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nKai Shu,\u00a0Subhabrata Mukherjee<\/a>, Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, Susan Dumais<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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Wednesday, July 29<\/h2>\r\n

9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\r\nNeural Representation Learning for Clarification in Conversational Search\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nHelia\u00a0Hashemi,\u00a0Hamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Bruce Croft\r\n\r\n
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9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\r\nWhat If Bots Feel Moods? Towards Controllable Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems with Emotion-Aware Transition Networks\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nLisong\u00a0Qiu,\u00a0Ying Wai\u00a0<\/b>Shiu<\/b>,\u00a0Pingping<\/b>\u00a0Lin<\/b>, Ruihua Song<\/a>, Yue Liu<\/b>,\u00a0Dongyan\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Rui Yan\r\n\r\n
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9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\r\nExpressions of Style in Information Seeking Conversation with an Agent\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nPaul Thomas<\/a>,\u00a0Daniel Mcduff<\/a>,\u00a0Mary Czerwinski<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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9:40 \u2013 11:40 | Session 7A \u2013 Conversation and Interactive IR<\/h3>\r\nAnalyzing and Learning from User Interactions for Search Clarification<\/strong>\r\nHamed Zamani<\/a>,\u00a0Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>,\u00a0Everest Chen,\u00a0Gord\u00a0Lueck<\/a>,\u00a0Fernando Diaz<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Craswell<\/a>,\u00a0Susan Dumais<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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16:40 \u2013 17:00 | Session 2B \u2013 User Behavior and Experience<\/h3>\r\nOctopus: Comprehensive and Elastic User Representation for the Generation of Recommendation Candidates<\/strong>\r\nZheng Liu<\/a>, Junhan Yang, Jianxun Lian<\/a>, Defu Lian, Xing Xie<\/a>"}],"msr_startdate":"2020-07-25","msr_enddate":"2020-07-30","msr_event_time":"","msr_location":"Virtual\/Online","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_startdate_formatted":"July 25, 2020","msr_register_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_link":"","msr_cta_text":"","msr_cta_bi_name":"","featured_image_thumbnail":"\"Search","event_excerpt":"Microsoft is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the 43rd International ACL SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR).","msr_research_lab":[],"related-researchers":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"related-academic-programs":[],"related-groups":[],"related-projects":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-publications":[680259],"related-videos":[],"related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/675603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-event"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/675603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146946,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/675603\/revisions\/1146946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=675603"},{"taxonomy":"msr-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-region?post=675603"},{"taxonomy":"msr-event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event-type?post=675603"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=675603"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=675603"},{"taxonomy":"msr-program-audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-program-audience?post=675603"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=675603"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=675603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}