3rd International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'20)
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Call for Papers
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.
Scope
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):
Query understanding and search process management
- Processing verbose natural language queries
- Processing noisy ASR queries
- Relevance feedback in conversational search
- Voice-based search engine operations
- Dialogue schema for conversational search
Search result description (presentation) and organization
- Audio-based search result presentation and summarization
- Conversational navigation of search results
- Knowledge graph presentation in conversational search
- Advertisements in audio-based search result presentation
System participation, modality, and personality
- Pro-active search and recommendation interactions
- Mixed-initiative
- Search need elicitation
- Personality traits of conversational systems
- Interaction behaviors in conversational search
Evaluation, training, and assessment
- Building test collections for conversational search
- Development of new metrics to measure effectiveness, engagement, satisfaction of conversational search
- Conversational search tasks
Usage, applications, and context
- Intelligent personal assistance
- Intelligent home assistance using voice/speech oriented devices
- Collaborative search
- Hands-free search (e.g., in car, kitchen)
- Search for medical purposes
- Search for users with visual impairment
- Search for users with low literacy
- Integration with existing technologies
Development
- Conversational systems as a standalone application
- Usage of existing applications (such as APIs) enabling further research
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
How to Submit
- Long paper: 6 pages max.
- Short paper: 4 pages max.
- Format: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
- Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cair20
Accepted full papers will be granted an optional +2 pages to address comments from the reviewers and 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 organizers. Submission must include the name and affiliations of authors.
Papers must be submitted to Easychair by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) of January 10, 2020.
Program Committee
- Mohammad Aliannejadi (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
- Sandeep Avula (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde)
- Nicholas J. Belkin (Rutgers University)
- Aleksandr Chuklin (Google Research)
- Ido Guy (eBay)
- Jiepu Jiang (Virginia Tech)
- Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
- Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam)
- Johannes Kiesel (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
- Karthik Raghunathan (MindMeld)
- Alexandra Vtyurina (University of Waterloo)
- Liu Yang (Google)
- Imed Zitouni (Google)
Organizers
- Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)
- Damiano Spina (RMIT University)
- Paul Thomas (Microsoft)
- Johanne R. Trippas (RMIT University)
Steering Committee
- Jaime Arguello (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University)
- Fernando Diaz (Microsoft)
- Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Google)
- Julia Kiseleva (Microsoft & University of Amsterdam)
- Filip Radlinski (Google)
- Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)
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