Search Results for author: Paul Thomas

Found 6 papers, 3 papers with code

Large language models can accurately predict searcher preferences

1 code implementation19 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.

Language Modelling Large Language Model

Taking Search to Task

no code implementations12 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.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search

1 code implementation13 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.

Conversational Search

On the automatic annotation of gene functions using observational data and phylogenetic trees

2 code implementations14 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.

Towards a Model for Spoken Conversational Search

no code implementations29 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.

Conversational Search

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