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1st CAIR workshop was a great success with over 70 people registered! Thank you everyone who was involved in the workshop. You can see the archive of CAIR'17 from Twitter timeline.
Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon, Jaime Arguello, Milad Shokouhi, and Filip Radlinski. 2017. CAIR'17: First International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval at SIGIR 2017. SIGIR Forum 51, 3 (December 2017), 114-121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3190580.3190598
http://sigir.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/p114.pdf
Stay tuned for CAIR'18!
Workshop program is now available!
A list of accepted papers is here!
Thanks to SIGdial, a travel grant is available for a student of oral presentation. See here for the details.
We are very pleased to announce that we have two invited speakers from leading organizations as follows.
We have extended our submissions to a two-round system!
Recent advances in commercial conversational services that allow naturally spoken and typed interaction, particularly for well-formulated questions and commands, have increased the need for more human-centric interactions in information retrieval. The First International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'17) will bring together academic and industrial researchers to create a forum for research on conversational approaches to search. A specific focus will be on techniques that support complex and multi-turn user-machine dialogues for information access and retrieval, and multi-model interfaces for interacting with such systems. We invite submissions addressing all modalities of conversation, including speech-based, text-based, and multimodal interaction. We also welcome studies of human-human interaction (e.g., collaborative search) that can inform the design of conversational search applications, and work on evaluation of conversational approaches.
The workshop welcomes a broad range of studies that can contribute to the development of conversational approaches to IR. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Accepted long papers will have an oral presentation at the workshop.
Short papers can include position papers and panel discussion proposals, in addition to the latest findings of your work. Accepted short papers will have a poster presentation at the workshop.
All submissions will be reviewed by the PC committee chaired by the workshop organisers. Submissions must include the name and affiliations of authors.
Please contact the workshop organisers via cair-organisers at googlegroups dot com for any enquiries.