no code implementations • EACL (HCINLP) 2021 • Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
Given the more widespread nature of natural language interfaces, it is increasingly important to understand who are accessing those interfaces, and how those interfaces are being used.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2023 • Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera
We introduce a novel re-ranking model that aims to augment the functionality of standard search engines to support classroom search activities for children (ages 6 to 11).
no code implementations • 23 Feb 2023 • Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
Using online information discovery as a case study, in this position paper we discuss the need to design, develop, and deploy (conversational) agents that can -- non-intrusively -- guide children in their quest for online resources rather than simply finding resources for them.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2022 • Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera
The last several years have brought a growing body of work on ensuring that recommender systems are in some sense consumer-fair -- that is, they provide comparable quality of service, accuracy of representation, and other effects to their users.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2022 • Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers
In this manuscript, we argue for the need to further look at search as learning (SAL) with children as the primary stakeholders.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2021 • Garrett Allen, Jie Yang, Maria Soledad Pera, Ujwal Gadiraju
Further, we discuss preliminary ideas on strategies for evaluation.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2021 • Mohammad Aliannejadi, Fabio Crestani, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
Recent developments in the mobile app industry have resulted in various types of mobile apps, each targeting a different need and a specific audience.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2021 • Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, Maria Soledad Pera
Seminal works have studied how children use mainstream search engines, as well as how to design and evaluate custom search engines explicitly for children.
no code implementations • 8 May 2021 • Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
In the classroom environment, search tools are the means for students to access Web resources.
no code implementations • 7 May 2021 • Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera
In this paper, we argue for the need to broaden the research focus to include teachers and how search technology can aid them.
no code implementations • 21 May 2020 • Ashlee Milton, Maria Soledad Pera
Evaluation of information retrieval systems (IRS) is a prominent topic among information retrieval researchers--mainly directed at a general population.
no code implementations • 12 May 2020 • Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
Multilingual machine translation has recently been in vogue given its potential for improving machine translation performance for low-resource languages via transfer learning.
no code implementations • TACL 2020 • Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
The alignment of word embedding spaces in different languages into a common crosslingual space has recently been in vogue.
1 code implementation • TACL 2019 • Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
We present a multiattentive recurrent neural network architecture for automatic multilingual readability assessment.