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 International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR) 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.

Editions

• Future Conversations at CHIIR 2021 (virtual - Canberra, Australia)

• CAIR'20 at CHIIR 2020 (virtual - Vancouver, Canada)

• CAIR'18 at SIGIR 2018 (Ann Arbor Michigan, USA)

  • CAIR'18 Workshop Report

• CAIR'17 at SIGIR 2017 (Tokyo, Japan)

  • CAIR'17 Workshop Report

Steering Committee

• Jaime Arguello (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University)

• Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Amazon)

• Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)

• Julia Kiseleva (University of Amsterdam)

• Filip Radlinski (Google)

• Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)

• Damiano Spina (RMIT University)

• Paul Thomas (Microsoft)

• Johanne R. Trippas (The University of Melbourne)

Past Steering Committee Member

• Fernando Diaz (Google)

• Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft)

Contact

Please contact the workshop organisers via cair-organisers at googlegroups dot com for any enquiries.