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.
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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 [PDF]
- 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 [PDF]
- Towards Self-Contained Answers: Entity-Based Answer Rewriting in Conversational Search — full paper at CHIIR’24 by Ivan Sekulic, Krisztian Balog, and Fabio Crestani [PDF]
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.
CIKM’23 contributions
Our group has two contributions accepted at CIKM’23:
- Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation — resource paper by Weronika Łajewska and Krisztian Balog [PDF]
- Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems — tutorial by Krisztian Balog and ChengXiang Zhai [website]
Ujwal Gadiraju visited IAI
Ujwal Gadiraju from Delft University of Technology visited us on May 8-9. These two days were dedicated to presenting recent work, sharing our research interests, and, most importantly, brainstorming about our recent and ongoing projects that involve crowdsourcing.
IAI outing and hackathon
We spent two days in the Grand Hotell in Egersund working on a framework for Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKGs). The outing was devoted to discussions, hands-on coding, and group activities. The PKG ecosystem has been defined in our recently submitted paper. Apart from hard work, we made use of beautiful weather and enjoyed a hike to Trollpikken. Photos from the outing can be found here.