Search & Recommendations

60 publications
November 2023 | ACM TORS

Unbiased Identification of Broadly Appealing Content Using a Pure Exploration Infinitely-Armed Bandit Strategy

Maryam Aziz, Jesse Anderton, Kevin Jamieson, Alice Wang, Hugues Bouchard, Javed Aslam

October 2023 | CIKM

Exploiting Sequential Music Preferences via Optimisation-Based Sequencing

Dmitrii Moor, Yi Yuan, Rishabh Mehrotra, Zhenwen Dai, Mounia Lalmas

October 2023 | CIKM

Graph Learning for Exploratory Query Suggestions in an Instant Search System

Enrico Palumbo, Andreas Damianou, Alice Wang, Alva Liu, Ghazal Fazelnia, Francesco Fabbri, Rui Ferreira, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hugues Bouchard, Claudia Hauff, Mounia Lalmas, Ben Carterette, Praveen Chandar, David Nyhan

September 2023 | CLEF

Cem Mil Podcasts: A Spoken Portuguese Document Corpus For Multi-modal, Multi-lingual and Multi-Dialect Information Access Research

Ekaterina Garmash, Edgar Tanaka, Ann Clifton, Joana Correia, Sharmistha Jat, Winstead Zhu, Rosie Jones, Jussi Karlgren

September 2023 | RecSys

Accelerating Creator Audience Building through Centralized Exploration

Buket Baran, Guilherme Dinis Junior, Antonina Danylenko, Olayinka S. Folorunso, Gösta Forsum, Maksym Lefarov, Lucas Maystre, Yu Zhao

July 2023 | SIGIR

Hear Me Out: A Study on the Use of the Voice Modality for Crowdsourced Relevance Assessments

Nirmal Roy, Agathe Balayn, David Maxwell, Claudia Hauff.

July 2023 | SIGIR

When the Music Stops: Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval for Music

Samarth Bhargav, Anne Schuth, Claudia Hauff

July 2023 | SIGIR Industry

Bootstrapping Query Suggestions in Spotify’s Instant Search System

Alva Liu, Humberto Corona Pampin, Enrico Palumbo

July 2023 | KDD

Impatient Bandits: Optimizing for the Long-Term Without Delay

Thomas McDonald, Lucas Maystre, Mounia Lalmas, Daniel Russo, Kamil Ciosek

July 2023 | KDD

Automatic Music Playlist Generation via Simulation-based Reinforcement Learning

Federico Tomasi, Joseph Cauteruccio, Surya Kanoria, Kamil Ciosek, Matteo Rinaldi, Zhenwen Dai

May 2023 | TheWebConf

Improving Content Retrievability in Search with Controllable Query Generation

Gustavo Penha, Enrico Palumbo, Maryam Aziz, Alice Wang, and Hugues Bouchard

March 2023 | Frontier on Big Data: Recommender Systems

A Survey on Multi-objective Recommender Systems

Dietmar Jannach and Himan Abdollahpouri

March 2023 | Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

Enabling Goal-Focused Exploration of Podcasts in Interactive Recommender Systems

Yu Liang, Aditya Ponnada, Paul Lamere, Nediyana Daskalova

September 2022 | RecSys

Identifying New Podcasts with High General Appeal Using a Pure Exploration Infinitely-Armed Bandit Strategy

Maryam Aziz, Jesse Anderton, Kevin Jamieson, Alice Wang, Hugues Bouchard, Javed Aslam

July 2022 | SIGIR

What Makes a Good Podcast Summary?

Rezvaneh Rezapour, Sravana Reddy, Ann Clifton, Rosie Jones

June 2022 | ICWSM

The Contribution of Lyrics and Acoustics to Collaborative Understanding of Mood

Shahrzad Nazeri, Sravana Reddy, Joana Correia, Jussi Karlgren, Rosie Jones

April 2022 | The Web Conference (WWW)

Sequential Recommendation via Stochastic Self-Attention

Ziwei Fan, Zhiwei Liu, Alice Wang, Zahra Nazari, Lei Zheng, Hao Peng, Philip S. Yu

April 2022 | The Web Conference (WWW)

Using Survival Models to Estimate Long-Term Engagement in Online Experiments

Praveen Chandar, Brian St. Thomas, Lucas Maystre, Vijay Pappu, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Tiffany Wu, Ben Carterette, Mounia Lalmas, Tony Jebara

April 2022 | The Web Conference (WWW)

Choice of Implicit Signal Matters: Accounting for User Aspirations in Podcast Recommendations

Zahra Nazari, Praveen Chandar, Ghazal Fazelnia, Catie Edrwards, Ben Carterette, Mounia Lalmas