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]

DAGFiNN demo at RecSys’22

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.

Papers accepted at SIGIR’22

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]