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and the #ICTIR2024 best paper honorable mention: Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access Nolwenn Bernard, Krisztian Balog Congratulations! 🎉🏆

Great to see Universitetet i Stavanger IAI group on the SIGIR 2025 top institutes with accepted papers!

IAI group at #SIGIR2024 We have 2 short papers, 2 resource papers and a demo tomorrow during poster session. Please stop by. iai.group/2024/03/papers…

Just watched the excellent #sigir2024 keynote by Thorsten Joachims, referring to our work on natural language user profiles for recommendation. This is the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…

“Towards Realistic Synthetic User-Generated Content: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating Online Discussions” w/ John Palowitch, B. Ikica, @firadl, H. Alvari, and M. Manshadi is now available on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2408.08379

“Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking?” w/ Weronika Łajewska, Krisztian Balog & Johanne accepted at #sigirap2024

Interested in LLMs and recommender systems? We have a fully funded PhD position at IAI group #phd #vacancy

There are still a few days left to apply!

"Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking?" presented by Weronika Łajewska w/Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com Krisztian Balog and Johanne at #SIGIRAP2024 🇯🇵 🔗doi.acm.org/?doi=3673791.3…, #convsearch #sigirap24

"ACM ICTIR, formerly known as the “ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval”, is renamed to ACM SIGIR International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval." ICTIR 2024 #ictir2025 ictir2025.cs.umass.edu

The Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA) workshop will run for the 2nd time at #sigir2025 this year, featuring a shared task. Stay tuned.

This week, Nolwenn Bernard is presenting CRS Arena, a research platform that facilitates side-by-side comparisons between conversational recommender systems, at #wsdm2025 Joint work w/ Hideaki Joko Faegheh Hasibi dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

"MultiConAD: A Unified Multilingual Conversational Dataset for Early Alzheimer’s Detection" w/ Arezo Shakeri and Mina Farmanbar has been accepted as a Resource paper at #sigir2025 Preprint is already on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.19208

"GINGER: Grounded Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses" with Weronika Łajewska has been accepted at #sigir2025 as a short paper. Ours was the top performing AG run at TREC RAG'24 under the AutoNuggets/AutoAssign condition. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.18174

The paper has been accepted at the Perspectives track of #sigir2025

The Sim4IA workshop at #sigir2025 is featuring two (micro) shared tasks on user simulation (predicting next queries or conversational utterances): sim4ia.org/sigir2025/ For a (non-biding) expression of interest, fill out this form: forms.gle/ftV8cwjywHWsBh…