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Unifying Ranking and Generation in Query Auto-Completion via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Multi-Objective Alignment
Kai Yuan, Anthony Zheng, Jia Hu +9
Query Auto-Completion (QAC) suggests query completions as users type, helping them articulate intent and reach results more efficiently. Existing approaches face fundamental challe…
Synthetic Query Generation using Large Language Models for Virtual Assistants
Sonal Sannigrahi, Thiago Fraga-Silva, Youssef Oualil +1
Virtual Assistants (VAs) are important Information Retrieval platforms that help users accomplish various tasks through spoken commands. The speech recognition system (speech-to-te…
Graph-Based Model-Agnostic Data Subsampling for Recommendation Systems
Xiaohui Chen, Jiankai Sun, Taiqing Wang +3
Data subsampling is widely used to speed up the training of large-scale recommendation systems. Most subsampling methods are model-based and often require a pre-trained pilot model…
Modeling Spoken Information Queries for Virtual Assistants: Open Problems, Challenges and Opportunities
Christophe Van Gysel
Virtual assistants are becoming increasingly important speech-driven Information Retrieval platforms that assist users with various tasks. We discuss open problems and challenges w…
Predicting Entity Popularity to Improve Spoken Entity Recognition by Virtual Assistants
Christophe Van Gysel, Manos Tsagkias, Ernest Pusateri +1
We focus on improving the effectiveness of a Virtual Assistant (VA) in recognizing emerging entities in spoken queries. We introduce a method that uses historical user interactions…