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Two Amazon papers were runners-up for best-paper awards at AAAI

Two Amazon AI papers just won runner-up honors at AAAI. Here's what they reveal about the future of search and recommendations.

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Amazon's research breakthroughs in massive-scale recommendation algorithms and natural language search on scientific literature signal key technical advances that could reshape how enterprises handle information discovery and personalization at scale.

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  1. Two Amazon papers received runner-up recognition at AAAI conference

  2. Research focuses on recommendation algorithms for massive search spaces

  3. Natural language search capability applied to COVID-19 literature database

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Publisher excerpt: Research investigates how to construct recommendation algorithms when the search space is massive and how to perform natural-language searches on the COVID-19 literature.
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