The paper Towards Reliable and Factual Response Generation: Detecting Unanswerable Questions in Information-seeking Conversations by Weronika Łajewska and Krisztian Balog has received the Best Short Paper Award at the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’24). You can read the paper here.
Papers accepted at SIGIR’24
Our group has the following papers accepted at SIGIR’24:
- Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking — full paper by Weronika Łajewska, Damiano Spina, Johanne Trippas and Krisztian Balog
- A Surprisingly Simple yet Effective Multi-Query Rewriting Method for Conversational Passage Retrieval — short paper by Ivica Kostric and Krisztian Balog
- The Surprising Effectiveness of Rankers trained on Expanded Queries — short paper by Abhijit Anand, Venktesh V, Vinay Setty and Avishek Anand
- Dataset and Models for Item Recommendation Using Multi-Modal User Interactions — resource paper by Simone Borg Bruun, Krisztian Balog, and Maria Maistro
- QuantTemp: A Real-world Open-domain Benchmark for Fact-checking Numerical Claims — resource paper by Venktesh V, Abhijit Anand, Avishek Anand and Vinay Setty
- FactCheck Editor: Multilingual Text Editor with End-to-End fact-checking — demo paper by Vinay Setty
In addition, our group is also involved with the organization of the Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA) workshop.
Preprints will follow soon.
Peter Røysland Aarnes joins IAI
We welcome Peter Røysland Aarnes as our new PhD student, who will focus his research on explainable AI for fact-checking. Funded by the SFI MediaFutures research center, he will contribute to the Media Content Production & Analysis work package, under the supervision of Vinay Setty.
MovieBot 2.0 demo paper presented at WSDM’24
IAI MovieBot is a conversational recommender system for movies developed by members of our group, Javeria Habib, Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard, Ivica Kostric, Weronika Łajewska, Martin G. Skjæveland, and Shuo Zhang. This work has been demonstrated at the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’24), in Merida, Mexico. Have a look at the demo paper or the repository to learn more about our movie recommender system.
Paper accepted in AI Open
The paper An Ecosystem for Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Survey and Research Roadmap by Martin G. Skjæveland, Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard, Weronika Łajewska, and Trond Linjordet has been accepted for publication in AI Open and is now available online.
Paper accepted in ACM Computing Surveys
The paper A Systematic Review of Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Information Retrieval by Nolwenn Bernard and Krisztian Balog has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys and is now available online.
ECIR’24 and CHIIR’24 papers on conversational search
Some recent papers acceptances on conversational search:
- Towards Reliable and Factual Response Generation: Detecting Unanswerable Questions in Information-seeking Conversations — short paper at ECIR’24 by Weronika Łajewska and Krisztian Balog
- Estimating the Usefulness of Clarifying Questions and Answers for Conversational Search — short paper at ECIR’24 by Ivan Sekulic, Weronika Łajewska, Krisztian Balog, and Fabio Crestani
- Towards Self-Contained Answers: Entity-Based Answer Rewriting in Conversational Search — full paper at CHIIR’24 by Ivan Sekulic, Krisztian Balog, and Fabio Crestani
Preprints will follow soon.
Best Resource Paper Award at CIKM’23
The paper Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation by Weronika Łajewska and Krisztian Balog has received the Best Resource Paper Award at the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ‘23).
ACM TORS paper accepted
The paper Generating Usage-related Questions for Preference Elicitation in Conversational Recommender Systems by Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, and Filip Radlinski has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems and is now available online.
Petra Galuscakova joins IAI
Associate Professor Petra Galuscakova joins IAI as a faculty member. Petra will work on an intersection of information retrieval and natural language processing. She is interested in providing robust access strategies for complex search scenarios, such as cross-language retrieval and speech retrieval. Petra holds a PhD from Charles University in Prague, after which she spent some time at the University of Maryland and Université Grenoble-Alpes.