2nd International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'18)
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CAIR'18 Workshop Report
Damiano Spina, Jaime Arguello, Hideo Joho, Julia Kiseleva, and Filip Radlinski. 2018. CAIR'18: Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval at SIGIR 2018. SIGIR Forum 52, 2 (December 2018), 111-116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3308774.3308793
Introduction
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 Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'18) will again 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-modal 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.
Important Dates
Early-Bird Submission Due: April 12, 2018Regular Submission Due: May 4, 2018Early-Bird Notification: May 4, 2018SIGIR 2018 Early-Bird Registration Due: May 5, 2018Regular Notification: May 25, 2018Camera Ready Submission Due: June 22, 2018Workshop: July 12, 2018
Accepted Papers
- Conceptualizing Agent-Human Interactions during the Conversational Search Process. Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde), Mateusz Dubiel (University of Strathclyde), Martin Halvey (University of Strathclyde) and Jeffery Dalton (University of Glasgow)
- Exploring Current User Web Search Behaviours in Analysis Tasks to be Supported in Conversational Search. Abhishek Kaushik (Dublin City University), Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
- Interactive Search through Iterative Refinement. Muuo Wambua (University of Toronto), Stefania Raimondo (University of Toronto), Jennifer Boger (University of Waterloo), Jan Polgar (Western University), Hamidreza Chinaei (University of Toronto) and Frank Rudzicz (Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-UHN; University of Toronto; Vector Institute)
- Investigating How Conversational Search Agents Affect User’s Behaviour, Performance and Search Experience. Mateusz Dubiel (University of Strathclyde), Martin Halvey (University of Strathclyde), Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde) and Sylvain Darronat (University of Strathclyde)
- Wizard of Oz: Protocols and Challenges in Studying Searchbots to Support Collaborative Search. Sandeep Avula (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Accepted papers will have 15 minutes for an oral presentation (+ 5 additional minutes for questions & answers). Authors are also invited to bring a poster.
Invited Speakers
Program
Date: Friday, July 12, 2018
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: The Michigan League, 2nd Floor, Hussey Room
Program at a Glance
- Welcome
- Keynote Talk I: Brian Storpe (Google)
- Coffee Break
- Oral Session 1
- Lunch Break
- Oral Session 2
- Keynote Talk II: Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
- Coffee Break
- Joint Panel with KG4IR + Closing
09:00-09:05
Welcome
09:05-10:00
Keynote Talk I: Brian Strope (Google)
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00
Oral Session I
- Conceptualizing Agent-Human Interactions during the Conversational Search Process. Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde), Mateusz Dubiel (University of Strathclyde), Martin Halvey (University of Strathclyde) and Jeffery Dalton (University of Glasgow)
- Wizard of Oz: Protocols and Challenges in Studying Searchbots to Support Collaborative Search. Sandeep Avula (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Investigating How Conversational Search Agents Affect User’s Behaviour, Performance and Search Experience. Mateusz Dubiel (University of Strathclyde), Martin Halvey (University of Strathclyde), Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde) and Sylvain Darronat (University of Strathclyde)
- Interactive Search through Iterative Refinement. Muuo Wambua (University of Toronto), Stefania Raimondo (University of Toronto), Jennifer Boger (University of Waterloo), Jan Polgar (Western University), Hamidreza Chinaei (University of Toronto) and Frank Rudzicz (Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-UHN; University of Toronto; Vector Institute)
12:00 - 1:30pm
Lunch Break
1:30pm-1:50pm
Oral Session II
- Exploring Current User Web Search Behaviours in Analysis Tasks to be Supported in Conversational Search. Abhishek Kaushik (Dublin City University), Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
1:50-2:45pm
Keynote Talk II: Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
Conversational Search with Voice-based Assistants: The case of News Search Enrico uh Suggestion
2:45pm-3:00pm
Poster Discussions
3:00-3:30pm
Coffee Break
3:30-3:45pm
Poster Discussions
3:45-5:00pm
Panel Discussion - Together with KG4IR workshop
Program Committee
- Claudia Hauff (TU Delft)
- Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
- Ido Guy (eBay Research)
- Jeffrey Dalton (University of Glasgow)
- Jiepu Jiang (UMass Amherst)
- Ben Lambert (Spotify)
- Johanne R. Trippas (RMIT University)
- Karthik Raghunathan (MINDMELD)
- Paul Thomas (Microsoft Research)
- Imed Zitouni (Microsoft Research)
Organizers
- Jaime Arguello (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)
- Julia Kiseleva (University of Amsterdam)
- Filip Radlinski (Google)
- Damiano Spina (RMIT University)
Steering Committee
- Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University)
- Fernando Diaz (Spotify)
- Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Google)
- Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)
- Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft)
- and organisers