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05/18/2023
Query Performance Prediction: From Ad-hoc to Conversational Search
Query performance prediction (QPP) is a core task in information retriev...
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05/03/2023
Generating Synthetic Documents for Cross-Encoder Re-Rankers: A Comparative Study of ChatGPT and Human Experts
We investigate the usefulness of generative Large Language Models (LLMs)...
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05/01/2023
On the Impact of Outlier Bias on User Clicks
User interaction data is an important source of supervision in counterfa...
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04/26/2023
Exploiting Simulated User Feedback for Conversational Search: Ranking, Rewriting, and Beyond
This research aims to explore various methods for assessing user feedbac...
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02/14/2023
Market-Aware Models for Efficient Cross-Market Recommendation
We consider the cross-market recommendation (CMR) task, which involves r...
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12/16/2022
Experiments on Generalizability of BERTopic on Multi-Domain Short Text
Topic modeling is widely used for analytically evaluating large collecti...
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08/22/2022
Towards Confidence-aware Calibrated Recommendation
Recommender systems utilize users' historical data to learn and predict ...
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05/27/2022
IGLU 2022: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment at NeurIPS 2022
Human intelligence has the remarkable ability to adapt to new tasks and ...
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05/17/2022
Experiments on Generalizability of User-Oriented Fairness in Recommender Systems
Recent work in recommender systems mainly focuses on fairness in recomme...
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05/05/2022
Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment: IGLU 2021
Human intelligence has the remarkable ability to quickly adapt to new ta...
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04/26/2022
Understanding User Satisfaction with Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
Dialogue systems are evaluated depending on their type and purpose. Two ...
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04/17/2022
Evaluating Mixed-initiative Conversational Search Systems via User Simulation
Clarifying the underlying user information need by asking clarifying que...
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02/07/2022
Mental Disorders on Online Social Media Through the Lens of Language and Behaviour: Analysis and Visualisation
Due to the worldwide accessibility to the Internet along with the contin...
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01/21/2022
Towards Building Economic Models of Conversational Search
Various conceptual and descriptive models of conversational search have ...
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01/20/2022
A Systematic Analysis on the Impact of Contextual Information on Point-of-Interest Recommendation
As the popularity of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) increases, d...
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01/10/2022
Leveraging Social Influence based on Users Activity Centers for Point-of-Interest Recommendation
Recommender Systems (RSs) aim to model and predict the user preference w...
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12/21/2021
Understanding and Mitigating the Effect of Outliers in Fair Ranking
Traditional ranking systems are expected to sort items in the order of t...
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10/13/2021
NeurIPS 2021 Competition IGLU: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment
Human intelligence has the remarkable ability to adapt to new tasks and ...
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09/14/2021
The Impact of User Demographics and Task Types on Cross-App Mobile Search
Recent developments in the mobile app industry have resulted in various ...
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09/13/2021
BERT for Target Apps Selection: Analyzing the Diversity and Performance of BERT in Unified Mobile Search
A unified mobile search framework aims to identify the mobile apps that ...
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09/13/2021
Keyword Extraction for Improved Document Retrieval in Conversational Search
Recent research has shown that mixed-initiative conversational search, b...
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09/13/2021
Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search
Information seeking conversations between users and Conversational Searc...
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09/13/2021
Cross-Market Product Recommendation
We study the problem of recommending relevant products to users in relat...
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09/13/2021
Building and Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Corpora with Clarifying Questions
Enabling open-domain dialogue systems to ask clarifying questions when a...
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03/10/2021
Ranking Clarifying Questions Based on Predicted User Engagement
To improve online search results, clarification questions can be used to...
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02/08/2021
User Engagement Prediction for Clarification in Search
Clarification is increasingly becoming a vital factor in various topics ...
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01/25/2021
MICROS: Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems Workshop
The 1st edition of the workshop on Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Syste...
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01/09/2021
Context-Aware Target Apps Selection and Recommendation for Enhancing Personal Mobile Assistants
Users install many apps on their smartphones, raising issues related to ...
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12/14/2020
A Canine Census to Influence Public Policy
The potential threat that domestic animals pose to the health of human p...
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11/10/2020
On Estimating the Training Cost of Conversational Recommendation Systems
Conversational recommendation systems have recently gain a lot of attent...
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09/23/2020
ConvAI3: Generating Clarifying Questions for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (ClariQ)
This document presents a detailed description of the challenge on clarif...
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09/20/2020
Longformer for MS MARCO Document Re-ranking Task
Two step document ranking, where the initial retrieval is done by a clas...
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08/09/2020
Analysing the Effect of Clarifying Questions on Document Ranking in Conversational Search
Recent research on conversational search highlights the importance of mi...
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01/31/2020
A Tool for Conducting User Studies on Mobile Devices
With the ever-growing interest in the area of mobile information retriev...
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01/24/2020
Joint Geographical and Temporal Modeling based on Matrix Factorization for Point-of-Interest Recommendation
With the popularity of Location-based Social Networks, Point-of-Interest...
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12/22/2019
Harnessing Evolution of Multi-Turn Conversations for Effective Answer Retrieval
With the improvements in speech recognition and voice generation technol...
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09/16/2019
A Joint Two-Phase Time-Sensitive Regularized Collaborative Ranking Model for Point of Interest Recommendation
The popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs) has led to a tr...
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09/14/2019
LGLMF: Local Geographical based Logistic Matrix Factorization Model for POI Recommendation
With the rapid growth of Location-Based Social Networks, personalized Po...
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07/31/2019
Category-Aware Location Embedding for Point-of-Interest Recommendation
Recently, Point of interest (POI) recommendation has gained ever-increas...
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07/15/2019
Asking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations
Users often fail to formulate their complex information needs in a singl...
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05/22/2019
ANTIQUE: A Non-Factoid Question Answering Benchmark
Considering the widespread use of mobile and voice search, answer passag...
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12/17/2018
Understanding Mobile Search Task Relevance and User Behaviour in Context
Improvements in mobile technologies have led to a dramatic change in how...
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07/11/2018
A Collaborative Ranking Model with Multiple Location-based Similarities for Venue Suggestion
Recommending venues plays a critical rule in satisfying users' needs on ...
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06/14/2018
Personalized Context-Aware Point of Interest Recommendation
Personalized recommendation of Points of Interest (POIs) plays a key rol...
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05/06/2018
Target Apps Selection: Towards a Unified Search Framework for Mobile Devices
With the recent growth of conversational systems and intelligent assista...
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03/22/2018
Venue Suggestion Using Social-Centric Scores
User modeling is a very important task for making relevant suggestions o...
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01/30/2017