Papers at SIGIR’26 and ICTIR’26

Our group has the following papers accepted at SIGIR’26:

  • A Standardized Re-evaluation of Conversational Recommender Systems on the ReDial Dataset – reproducibility paper by Ivica Kostric and Krisztian Balog [PDF]
  • A Reproducibility Study of Metacognitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation – reproducibility paper by Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz and Petra Galuscakova [PDF]

Additionally, our group has two papers accepted at ICTIR’26:

  • RecQuest: Towards Estimating User Domain Knowledge in Conversational Recommender Systems – research article by Ivica Kostric, Ujwal Gadiraju and Krisztian Balog [PDF]
  • Effectiveness of Sparse Retrieval for Automated Fact-Checking – research article by Ritvik Setty and Vinay Setty [PDF]