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 Third International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'20) 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

• Deadline for workshop papers: January 10, 2020
• Notification of paper acceptance: January 24, 2020
• Deadline for early-bird conference registration: 31 January, 2020
• Deadline for final paper versions: February 14, 2020
• Workshop date: March 18, 2020