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08/17/2023
Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation
Research on conversational search has so far mostly focused on query rew...
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07/26/2023
Large Language Models are Competitive Near Cold-start Recommenders for Language- and Item-based Preferences
Traditional recommender systems leverage users' item preference history ...
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06/14/2023
User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems
Information access systems, such as search engines, recommender systems,...
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04/25/2023
MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce
Conversational systems can be particularly effective in supporting compl...
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04/19/2023
An Ecosystem for Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Survey and Research Roadmap
This paper presents an ecosystem for personal knowledge graphs (PKG), co...
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03/16/2023
Measuring the Impact of Explanation Bias: A Study of Natural Language Justifications for Recommender Systems
Despite the potential impact of explanations on decision making, there i...
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03/13/2023
Beyond Single Items: Exploring User Preferences in Item Sets with the Conversational Playlist Curation Dataset
Users in consumption domains, like music, are often able to more efficie...
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01/27/2023
Generating Synthetic Data for Conversational Music Recommendation Using Random Walks and Language Models
Conversational recommendation systems (CRSs) enable users to use natural...
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01/25/2023
From Baseline to Top Performer: A Reproducibility Study of Approaches at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track
This paper reports on an effort of reproducing the organizers' baseline ...
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01/13/2023
UserSimCRS: A User Simulation Toolkit for Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems
We present an extensible user simulation toolkit to facilitate automatic...
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11/29/2022
DAGFiNN: A Conversational Conference Assistant
DAGFiNN is a conversational conference assistant that can be made availa...
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05/25/2022
Would You Ask it that Way? Measuring and Improving Question Naturalness for Knowledge Graph Question Answering
Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) facilitates information access...
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05/19/2022
On Natural Language User Profiles for Transparent and Scrutable Recommendation
Natural interaction with recommendation and personalized search systems ...
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05/03/2022
Analyzing and Simulating User Utterance Reformulation in Conversational Recommender Systems
User simulation has been a cost-effective technique for evaluating conve...
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01/26/2022
Diverse Reviewer Suggestion for Extending Conference Program Committees
Automated reviewer recommendation for scientific conferences currently r...
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11/26/2021
Soliciting User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems via Usage-related Questions
A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over ...
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09/14/2021
Semantic Answer Type Prediction using BERT: IAI at the ISWC SMART Task 2020
This paper summarizes our participation in the SMART Task of the ISWC 20...
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05/19/2021
POINTREC: A Test Collection for Narrative-driven Point of Interest Recommendation
This paper presents a test collection for contextual point of interest (...
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05/19/2021
On Interpretation and Measurement of Soft Attributes for Recommendation
We address how to robustly interpret natural language refinements (or cr...
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05/13/2021
Semantic Table Retrieval using Keyword and Table Queries
Tables on the Web contain a vast amount of knowledge in a structured for...
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05/11/2021
Conversational Entity Linking: Problem Definition and Datasets
Machine understanding of user utterances in conversational systems is of...
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05/08/2021
Simulating User Satisfaction for the Evaluation of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
Evaluation is crucial in the development process of task-oriented dialog...
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09/24/2020
ArXivDigest: A Living Lab for Personalized Scientific Literature Recommendation
Providing personalized recommendations that are also accompanied by expl...
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09/10/2020
Sanitizing Synthetic Training Data Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
Synthetic data generation is important to training and evaluating neural...
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09/08/2020
IAI MovieBot: A Conversational Movie Recommender System
Conversational recommender systems support users in accomplishing recomm...
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08/19/2020
Generating Categories for Sets of Entities
Category systems are central components of knowledge bases, as they prov...
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06/15/2020
Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation
Conversational information access is an emerging research area. Currentl...
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06/02/2020
REL: An Entity Linker Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Entity linking is a standard component in modern retrieval system that i...
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05/23/2020
Summarizing and Exploring Tabular Data in Conversational Search
Tabular data provide answers to a significant portion of search queries....
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02/01/2020
Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation: A Survey
Tables are a powerful and popular tool for organizing and manipulating d...
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02/01/2020
Novel Entity Discovery from Web Tables
When working with any sort of knowledge base (KB) one has to make sure i...
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01/19/2020
Common Conversational Community Prototype: Scholarly Conversational Assistant
This paper discusses the potential for creating academic resources (tool...
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09/08/2019
Auto-completion for Data Cells in Relational Tables
We address the task of auto-completing data cells in relational tables. ...
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08/05/2019
Unsupervised Context Retrieval for Long-tail Entities
Monitoring entities in media streams often relies on rich entity represe...
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07/08/2019
Recommending Related Tables
Tables are an extremely powerful visual and interactive tool for structu...
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07/05/2019
NeuType: A Simple and Effective Neural Network Approach for Predicting Missing Entity Type Information in Knowledge Bases
Knowledge bases store information about the semantic types of entities, ...
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05/31/2019
Table2Vec: Neural Word and Entity Embeddings for Table Population and Retrieval
Tables contain valuable knowledge in a structured form. We employ neural...
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01/29/2019
Impact of Training Dataset Size on Neural Answer Selection Models
It is held as a truism that deep neural networks require large datasets ...
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01/18/2019
Identifying Unclear Questions in Community Question Answering Websites
Thousands of complex natural language questions are submitted to communi...
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09/02/2018
IntentsKB: A Knowledge Base of Entity-Oriented Search Intents
We address the problem of constructing a knowledge base of entity-orient...
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07/14/2018
Generating Synthetic Data for Neural Keyword-to-Question Models
Search typically relies on keyword queries, but these are often semantic...
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05/16/2018
SmartTable: A Spreadsheet Program with Intelligent Assistance
We introduce SmartTable, an online spreadsheet application that is equip...
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05/13/2018
On-the-fly Table Generation
Many information needs revolve around entities, which would be better an...
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02/22/2018
Towards an Understanding of Entity-Oriented Search Intents
Entity-oriented search deals with a wide variety of information needs, f...
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02/22/2018
Generating High-Quality Query Suggestion Candidates for Task-Based Search
We address the task of generating query suggestions for task-based searc...
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02/16/2018
Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity
We introduce and address the problem of ad hoc table retrieval: answerin...
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12/22/2017
Supervised Ranking of Triples for Type-Like Relations - The Cress Triple Scorer at the WSDM Cup 2017
This paper describes our participation in the Triple Scoring task of WSD...
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09/18/2017
Anticipating Information Needs Based on Check-in Activity
In this work we address the development of a smart personal assistant th...
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09/18/2017
Towards Building a Knowledge Base of Monetary Transactions from a News Collection
We address the problem of extracting structured representations of econo...
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08/29/2017
