2024
Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2024.
Grounded and Transparent Response Generation for Conversational Information-Seeking Systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, pp. 1142–1144, 2024.
Towards Reliable and Factual Response Generation: Detecting Unanswerable Questions in Information-Seeking Conversations Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp. 336–344, 2024.
Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024.
Generating Usage-related Questions for Preference Elicitation in Conversational Recommender Systems Journal Article
In: ACM Trans. Recomm. Syst., vol. 2, no. 2, 2024.
A Surprisingly Simple yet Effective Multi-Query Rewriting Method for Conversational Passage Retrieval Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024.
QuanTemp: A real-world open-domain benchmark for fact-checking numerical claims Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024.
The Surprising Effectiveness of Rankers Trained on Expanded Queries Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024.
FactCheck Editor: Multilingual Text Editor with End-to-End fact-checking Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024.
IAI Group at CheckThat! 2024: Transformer models and data augmentation for checkworthy claim detection Proceedings Article
In: Working Notes of CLEF 2024 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, 2024.
LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance at CLEF 2024 Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp. 60–66, 2024.
Impact des collections sur les performances des Systèmes de Recherche d'Information Proceedings Article
In: Conférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications, 2024.
Outil d'exploration visuelle de lèvaluation longitudinale en Recherche d'Information Proceedings Article
In: Conférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications, 2024.
User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems Journal Article
In: Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, vol. 18, no. 1-2, pp. 1-261, 2024.
Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web Proceedings Article
In: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, pp. 1254–1257, 2024.
SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024.
Towards Self-Contained Answers: Entity-Based Answer Rewriting in Conversational Search Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, pp. 209–218, 2024.
Estimating the Usefulness of Clarifying Questions and Answers for Conversational Search Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp. 384–392, 2024.
Dataset and Models for Item Recommendation Using Multi-Modal User Interactions Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024.
An ecosystem for personal knowledge graphs: A survey and research roadmap Journal Article
In: AI Open, vol. 5, pp. 55–69, 2024.
IAI MovieBot 2.0: An Enhanced Research Platform with Trainable Neural Components and Transparent User Modeling Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2024.
Leveraging User Simulation to Develop and Evaluate Conversational Information Access Agents Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, pp. 1136–1138, 2024.
PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management Proceedings Article
In: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024, pp. 1051–1054, 2024.
Identifying Breakdowns in Conversational Recommender Systems using User Simulation Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2024.
2023
UserSimCRS: A User Simulation Toolkit for Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, pp. 1160–1163, 2023.
The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistance Track Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2023.
From Baseline to Top Performer: A Reproducibility Study of Approaches at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp. 177–191, 2023.
Recommending Tasks based on Search Queries and Missions Journal Article
In: Natural Language Engineering, pp. 1–25, 2023.
MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 2775–2785, 2023.
Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 5200–5203, 2023.
Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 5326–5330, 2023.
Generating Usage-Related Questions for Preference Elicitation in Conversational Recommender Systems Journal Article
In: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, 2023.
Extreme Classification for Answer Type Prediction in Question Answering Proceedings Article
In: 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp. 232–236, 2023.
Making Sense of Nonsense: Integrated Gradient-based Input Reduction to Improve Recall for Check-worthy Claim Detection Proceedings Article
In: Norwegian AI Society, pp. 1–13, 2023.
Trustworthy journalism through AI Journal Article
In: Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 146, pp. 102–182, 2023.
UserSimCRS: A User Simulation Toolkit for Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, pp. 1160–1163, 2023.
The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistance Track Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2023.
From Baseline to Top Performer: A Reproducibility Study of Approaches at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp. 177–191, 2023.
Recommending Tasks based on Search Queries and Missions Journal Article
In: Natural Language Engineering, pp. 1–25, 2023.
MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 2775–2785, 2023.
Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 5200–5203, 2023.
Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 5326–5330, 2023.
Generating Usage-Related Questions for Preference Elicitation in Conversational Recommender Systems Journal Article
In: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, 2023.
Extreme Classification for Answer Type Prediction in Question Answering Proceedings Article
In: 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp. 232–236, 2023.
Making Sense of Nonsense: Integrated Gradient-based Input Reduction to Improve Recall for Check-worthy Claim Detection Proceedings Article
In: Norwegian AI Society, pp. 1–13, 2023.
Trustworthy journalism through AI Journal Article
In: Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 146, pp. 102–182, 2023.
A Systematic Review of Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Information Retrieval Journal Article
In: ACM Computing Surveys, 2023.
2022
The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistance Track Proceedings Article
In: TREC 2022 Working Notes, NIST, 2022.
DAGFiNN: A Conversational Conference Assistant Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, pp. 628–631, 2022.
Analyzing and Simulating User Utterance Reformulation in Conversational Recommender Systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 133–143, 2022.