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20162026
most citedEmora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You

7 citations · 12 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.IR2026

Enhancing Healthcare Search Intent Recognition with Query Representation Learning and Session Context

Chen Lin, Harshita Jagdish Sahijwani, Madhav Sigdel +4

Classifying the intent behind healthcare search queries is crucial for improving the delivery of online healthcare information. The intricate nature of medical search queries, coup…

cs.SE2025

Benchmark Dataset Generation and Evaluation for Excel Formula Repair with LLMs

Ananya Singha, Harshita Sahijwani, Walt Williams +10

Excel is a pervasive yet often complex tool, particularly for novice users, where runtime errors arising from logical mistakes or misinterpretations of functions pose a significant…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Contextual Response Interpretation for Automated Structured Interviews: A Case Study in Market Research

Harshita Sahijwani, Kaustubh Dhole, Ankur Purwar +2

Structured interviews are used in many settings, importantly in market research on topics such as brand perception, customer habits, or preferences, which are critical to product d…

cs.CL2020★ 7 cited

Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You

Sarah E. Finch, James D. Finch, Ali Ahmadvand +9

Inspired by studies on the overwhelming presence of experience-sharing in human-human conversations, Emora, the social chatbot developed by Emory University, aims to bring such exp…

cs.IR2020★ 1 cited

Would You Like to Hear the News? Investigating Voice-BasedSuggestions for Conversational News Recommendation

Harshita Sahijwani, Jason Ingyu Choi, Eugene Agichtein

One of the key benefits of voice-based personal assistants is the potential to proactively recommend relevant and interesting information. One of the most valuable sources of such…

cs.CL2020

Would you Like to Talk about Sports Now? Towards Contextual Topic Suggestion for Open-Domain Conversational Agents

Ali Ahmadvand, Harshita Sahijwani, Eugene Agichtein

To hold a true conversation, an intelligent agent should be able to occasionally take initiative and recommend the next natural conversation topic. This is a challenging task. A to…