Eugene Agichtein

Touch Screens for Touchy Issues: Analysis of Accessing Sensitive Information from Mobile Devices

2021 · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Smartphones, and other similar devices, are ideal for private activities: They are carried on the body and can be physically secured from prying eyes. They work anywhere. And they are not typically shared among family …

Would you Like to Talk about Sports Now?

2020

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 topic suggested by the agent should be …

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

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

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 topic suggested by the agent should be …

Generative Product Recommendations for Implicit Superlative Queries

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In Recommender Systems, users often seek the best products through indirect, vague, or under-specified queries, such as "best shoes for trail running". Such queries, also referred to as implicit superlative queries, pose a significant challenge …