no code implementations • 25 Oct 2024 • Vahid Sadiri Javadi, Johanne R. Trippas, Yash Kumar Lal, Lucie Flek
Narratives are widely recognized as a powerful tool for structuring information and facilitating comprehension of complex ideas in various domains such as science communication.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2024 • Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina
Voice-based systems like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri, along with the growing popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot, serve diverse populations, including visually impaired and low-literacy communities.
no code implementations • 21 May 2024 • Kaixin Ji, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Johanne R. Trippas, Danula Hettiachchi, Flora D. Salim, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina
Instruments such as eye-tracking devices have contributed to understanding how users interact with screen-based search engines.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2024 • Leila Tavakoli, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
The effectiveness of clarification question models in engaging users within search systems is currently constrained, casting doubt on their overall usefulness.
1 code implementation • 14 Jan 2024 • Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Lin Tian, Futoon M. Abushaqra, Angel Felipe Magnossao de Paula, Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Johanne R. Trippas, Halil Ali, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina
Creating and deploying customized applications is crucial for operational success and enriching user experiences in the rapidly evolving modern business world.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2022 • Leila Tavakoli, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
Asking clarification questions is an active area of research; however, resources for training and evaluating search clarification methods are not sufficient.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2022 • Hamed Zamani, Johanne R. Trippas, Jeff Dalton, Filip Radlinski
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions between one or more users and an information system.
Conversational Question Answering Conversational Recommendation +1
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2019 • Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon
Conversation is the natural mode for information exchange in daily life, a spoken conversational interaction for search input and output is a logical format for information seeking.
no code implementations • 12 Jan 2019 • Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Hideo Joho, Mark Sanderson
We compared the interactions to existing models of search behaviour.
1 code implementation • 11 Jan 2019 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Johanne R. Trippas, Minghui Qiu
Due to the limited communication bandwidth in conversational search, it is important for conversational assistants to accurately detect and predict user intent in information-seeking conversations.
no code implementations • 23 Apr 2018 • Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Johanne R. Trippas, Yongfeng Zhang, Minghui Qiu
Understanding and characterizing how people interact in information-seeking conversations is crucial in developing conversational search systems.