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Kyle MacDonald
dblp:175/9744
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11ranked-venue papers
6as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0001-6111-3824ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 10 · 6 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 9 · 6 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 50% Knowledge representation and reasoning · 50% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › query understanding
query intent understanding |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Agentic Multi-Source Grounding for Enhanced Query Intent Understanding: A DoorDash Case Study · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval
query understanding |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Agentic Multi-Source Grounding for Enhanced Query Intent Understanding: A DoorDash Case Study · SIGIR 2026 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning › semantic representation
grounding |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Agentic Multi-Source Grounding for Enhanced Query Intent Understanding: A DoorDash Case Study · SIGIR 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
retrieval-augmented generation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Agentic Multi-Source Grounding for Enhanced Query Intent Understanding: A DoorDash Case Study · SIGIR 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
large language model · 2.0agentic web search · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Agentic Multi-Source Grounding for Enhanced Query Intent Understanding: A DoorDash Case StudyabstractAccurately mapping user queries to business categories is a fundamental Information Retrieval challenge for multi-category marketplaces, where context-sparse queries such as ''Wildflower'' exhibit intent ambiguity, simultaneously denoting a restaurant chain, a retail product, and a floral item. Traditional classifiers force a winner-takes-all assignment, while general-purpose LLMs hallucinate unavailable inventory. We introduce an Agentic Multi-Source Grounded system that addresses both failure modes by grounding LLM inference in (i) a staged catalog entity retrieval pipeline and (ii) an agentic web-search tool invoked autonomously for cold-start queries. Rather than predicting a single label, the model emits an ordered multi-intent set, resolved by a configurable disambiguation layer that applies deterministic business policies and is designed for extensibility to personalization signals. This decoupled design generalizes across domains, allowing any marketplace to supply its own grounding sources and resolution rules without modifying the core architecture. Evaluated on DoorDash's multi-vertical search platform, the system achieves +10.9pp over the ungrounded LLM baseline and +4.6pp over the legacy production system. On long-tail queries, incremental ablations attribute +8.3pp to catalog grounding, +3.2pp to agentic web search grounding, and +1.5pp to dual-intent disambiguation, yielding 90.7% accuracy (+13.0pp over baseline). The system is deployed in production, serving over 95% of daily search impressions, and establishes a generalizable paradigm for applications requiring foundation models grounded in proprietary context and real-time web knowledge to resolve ambiguous, context-sparse decision problems at scale. Emmanuel Aboah Boateng, Kyle MacDonald, Akshad Viswanathan, Sudeep Das |
SIGIR | 2 |
| 2021 | Peekbank: Exploring children's word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data
Martin Zettersten, Claire Bergey, Naiti S. Bhatt, Veronica Boyce, Mika Braginsky, Alexandra Carstensen, Benjamin deMayo, George Kachergis, Molly Lewis, Bria Long, Kyle MacDonald, Jessica Mankewitz, Stephan C. Meylan, Annissa Noor Saleh, Rose M. Schneider, Angeline Sin Mei Tsui, Sarp Uner, Tian Xu 0001, Daniel Yurovsky, Michael C. Frank |
CogSci | 11 |
| 2020 | Measuring prosodic predictability in children's home language environments
Kyle MacDonald, Marisa Casillas, Okko Johannes Räsänen, Anne S. Warlaumont |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2019 | Integration of gaze information during online language comprehension and learning
Kyle MacDonald, Elizabeth Swanson, Michael C. Frank |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2018 | Adults and preschoolers seek visual information to support language comprehension in noisy environments
Kyle MacDonald, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, Michael C. Frank |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2018 | Balancing informational and social goals in active learning
Erica J. Yoon, Kyle MacDonald, Mika Asaba, Hyowon Gweon, Michael C. Frank |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2018 | Human Activity Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks
Antonio Bevilacqua, Kyle MacDonald, Aamina Rangarej, Venessa Widjaya, Brian Caulfield 0001, M. Tahar Kechadi |
ECML/PKDD (3) | 2 |
| 2017 | An information-seeking account of eye movements during spoken and signed language comprehension
Kyle MacDonald, Aviva Blonder, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, Michael C. Frank |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2016 | A performance model for early word learning
Michael C. Frank, Molly Lewis, Kyle MacDonald |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2016 | When does passive learning improve the effectiveness of active learning?
Kyle MacDonald, Mike Frank |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2015 | Referential cues modulate attention and memory during cross-situational word learning
Kyle MacDonald, Daniel Yurovsky, Michael C. Frank |
CogSci | 1 |