UW News
Chirag Shah
March 14, 2022
Q&A: Preserving context and user intent in the future of web search
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In a new perspective paper, University of Washington professors Emily M. Bender and Chirag Shah respond to proposals that reimagine web search as an application for large language model-driven conversation agents.
February 16, 2022
Google’s ‘CEO’ image search gender bias hasn’t really been fixed
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UW researchers showed that image search results for four major search engines from around the world, including Google, still reflect gender bias.
June 2, 2020
Faculty/staff honors: East Asia Resource Center grant; career awards in robotics, information processing
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Recent honors to UW faculty and staff have come from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, the Freeman Foundation and the IEEE.