Search Results for author: Ryen W. White

Found 12 papers, 2 papers with code

Panmodal Information Interaction

no code implementations21 May 2024 Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White

While our focus is search and chat, with learnings from insights from a survey of over 100 individuals who have recently performed common tasks on these two modalities, we also present a more general vision for the future of information interaction using multiple modalities and the emergent capabilities of GenAI.

Advancing the Search Frontier with AI Agents

no code implementations2 Nov 2023 Ryen W. White

As many of us in the information retrieval (IR) research community know and appreciate, search is far from being a solved problem.

Information Retrieval

Making Large Language Models Better Data Creators

1 code implementation31 Oct 2023 Dong-Ho Lee, Jay Pujara, Mohit Sewak, Ryen W. White, Sujay Kumar Jauhar

In our experiments we demonstrate that instruction-following LLMs are highly cost-effective data creators, and that models trained with these data exhibit performance better than those trained with human-labeled data (by up to 17. 5%) on out-of-distribution evaluation, while maintaining comparable performance on in-distribution tasks.

Instruction Following Prompt Engineering +1

Using Large Language Models to Generate, Validate, and Apply User Intent Taxonomies

no code implementations14 Sep 2023 Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Scott Counts, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ali Montazer, Sathish Manivannan, Jennifer Neville, Xiaochuan Ni, Nagu Rangan, Tara Safavi, Siddharth Suri, Mengting Wan, Leijie Wang, Longqi Yang

However, using LLMs to generate a user intent taxonomy and apply it for log analysis can be problematic for two main reasons: (1) such a taxonomy is not externally validated; and (2) there may be an undesirable feedback loop.

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

MS-LaTTE: A Dataset of Where and When To-do Tasks are Completed

1 code implementation LREC 2022 Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Michael Gamon, Ryen W. White

Tasks are a fundamental unit of work in the daily lives of people, who are increasingly using digital means to keep track of, organize, triage and act on them.

Management

CoSEM: Contextual and Semantic Embedding for App Usage Prediction

no code implementations26 Aug 2021 Yonchanok Khaokaew, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Ryen W. White, Flora D. Salim

App usage prediction is important for smartphone system optimization to enhance user experience.

Formation of Social Ties Influences Food Choice: A Campus-Wide Longitudinal Study

no code implementations17 Feb 2021 Kristina Gligorić, Ryen W. White, Emre Kiciman, Eric Horvitz, Arnaud Chiolero, Robert West

To estimate causal effects from the passively observed log data, we control confounds in a matched quasi-experimental design: we identify focal users who at first do not have any regular eating partners but then start eating with a fixed partner regularly, and we match focal users into comparison pairs such that paired users are nearly identical with respect to covariates measured before acquiring the partner, where the two focal users' new eating partners diverge in the healthiness of their respective food choice.

Experimental Design Nutrition

Population-Scale Study of Human Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis and Implications

no code implementations17 Aug 2020 Jina Suh, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, Tim Althoff

Most work to date on mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic is focused urgently on biomedicine and epidemiology.

Epidemiology

Optimizing Interactive Systems via Data-Driven Objectives

no code implementations19 Jun 2020 Ziming Li, Julia Kiseleva, Alekh Agarwal, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White

Effective optimization is essential for real-world interactive systems to provide a satisfactory user experience in response to changing user behavior.

Conversations with Documents. An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance

no code implementations27 Jan 2020 Maartje ter Hoeve, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White

Our contributions are three-fold: (1) We first present a survey to understand the space of document-centered assistance and the capabilities people expect in this scenario.

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