Accepted Papers

• Conversational Strategies: Impact on Search Performance in a Goal-Oriented Task. Mateusz Dubiel (Strathclyde University), Martin Halvey (Strathclyde University), Leif Azzopardi (Strathclyde University), Damien Anderson (Strathclyde University), and Sylvain Daronnat (Strathclyde University) [PDF]
• Domain Adaptation for Conversation Response Ranking. Gustavo Penha (Delft University of Technology), and Claudia Hauff (Delft University of Technology) [PDF] [Slides]
• How a Conversational Agent Might Help Farmers in the Field. Bevan Koopman (CSIRO), Guido Zuccon (University of Queensland), Scott Chapman (University of Queensland), Yash Dang (University of Queensland), and David Lawrence (Queensland Government) [PDF]
• Theories of conversation for conversational IR. Paul Thomas (Microsoft), Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft), Daniel Mcduff (Microsoft), and Nick Craswell (Microsoft) [PDF]