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IAI outing and hackathon

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We spent a day in Utstein Monastery Hotel in Mosterøy working on bringing back to life and planning further development of our conversational movie recommender system, the IAI MovieBot. The outing was devoted to discussions, hands-on coding, and group activities. The original IAI MovieBot is described in a CIKM’20 demo paper [PDF]. Photos from the outing can be found here.

DAGFiNN demo at RecSys’22

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DAFiNN is a conversational conference assistant that has been developed by members of our group, Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard, Weronika Łajewska, together with students at the University of Stavanger. This work has been demonstrated at the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys‘22) last week, in Seattle, USA. Have a look at the dagfinn.ai website, the demo paper, or the video with a walk-through of its capabilities.

ECIR’22 in Stavanger, Norway

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We hosted the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’22)! It was not only the northernmost ECIR ever but also the first major IR conference in a hybrid format. ECIR’22 was a great success, both in the number of attendees (378 in total, of which 185 in person) and their level of satisfaction. We are glad that we could play a role in facilitating this. The report on the conference is now available online, as well as our Flickr photo album.

Papers accepted at SIGIR’22

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Our group has three papers accepted at SIGIR’22:

  • Analyzing and Simulating User Utterance Reformulation in Conversational Recommender Systems — full paper by former IAI member Shuo Zhang, Mu Chun Wang, and Krisztian Balog [PDF]
  • Would You Ask it that Way? Measuring and Improving Question Naturalness for Knowledge Graph Question Answering — resource paper by Trond Linjordet and Krisztian Balog [PDF]
  • SparCAssist: A Model Risk Assessment Assistant Based on Sparse Generated Counterfactuals — demo paper by Zijian Zhang, Vinay Setty, and Avishek Anand [PDF]