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Kyle MacDonald

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11ranked-venue papers
6as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0001-6111-3824ORCID · reported

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Information retrieval › query understanding
query intent understanding
1.012026
Agentic Multi-Source Grounding for Enhanced Query Intent Understanding: A DoorDash Case Study · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval
query understanding
1.012026
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
0.312026
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
0.312026
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Agentic Multi-Source Grounding for Enhanced Query Intent Understanding: A DoorDash Case Study
abstract
Accurately 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
SIGIR2
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
CogSci11
2020 Measuring prosodic predictability in children's home language environments
Kyle MacDonald, Marisa Casillas, Okko Johannes Räsänen, Anne S. Warlaumont
CogSci1
2019 Integration of gaze information during online language comprehension and learning
Kyle MacDonald, Elizabeth Swanson, Michael C. Frank
CogSci1
2018 Adults and preschoolers seek visual information to support language comprehension in noisy environments
Kyle MacDonald, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, Michael C. Frank
CogSci1
2018 Balancing informational and social goals in active learning
Erica J. Yoon, Kyle MacDonald, Mika Asaba, Hyowon Gweon, Michael C. Frank
CogSci2
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
CogSci1
2016 A performance model for early word learning
Michael C. Frank, Molly Lewis, Kyle MacDonald
CogSci3
2016 When does passive learning improve the effectiveness of active learning?
Kyle MacDonald, Mike Frank
CogSci1
2015 Referential cues modulate attention and memory during cross-situational word learning
Kyle MacDonald, Daniel Yurovsky, Michael C. Frank
CogSci1