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.
Publications
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]
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.
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]
Data & Knowledge Engineering journal paper on Trustworthy journalism
Trustworthy journalism through AI, co-authored by Vinay Setty, has been accepted in the Data & Knowledge Engineering journal and is now available here.
SIGIR’23 paper on Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce
MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce by Nolwenn Bernard and Krisztian Balog has been accepted at the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’23) as a resource paper.
JCDL’23 paper on Extreme Classification for Answer Type Prediction
Extreme Classification for Answer Type Prediction in Question Answering by Vinay Setty has been accepted at Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL’23) as a short paper.
UserSimCRS paper presented at WSDM’23
UserSimCRS is an extensible user simulation toolkit for evaluating conversational recommender systems developed by Jafar Afzali, Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard, Aleksander Drzewiecki, and Shuo Zhang. This work has been presented at the 16th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’23), in Singapore. Have a look at the demo paper or the toolkit for more details.