This page include supplementary tutorial material for the "Conversational Information Seeking" book.
Title: Conversational Information Seeking
- Draft 1.2 (January 2023): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08808.pdf
Authors:
- Hamed Zamani, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
- Johanne R. Trippas, RMIT University, Australia
- Jeffrey Dalton, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Filip Radlinski, Google, United Kingdom
Citation: To cite the CIS book, please use the following bibtex:
@article{TheCISBook,
author = {Zamani, Hamed and Trippas, Johanne R. and Dalton, Jeffrey and Radlinski, Filip},
title = {Conversational Information Seeking},
year = {2023},
publisher = {Now Publishers},
journal = {Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval},
note = {(to appear)},
}
Jeffrey Dalton, Filip Radlinski, Federico Rossetto, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani
- Introduction and Applications
- Historical Context
- Large Language Models and Retrieval Augmentation
- Conversational Language Understanding and Response Ranking & Generation
- Mixed-Initiative Interactions
- Conversational Interfaces and Result Presentation
- CIS Evaluation (no public slide)
Jeffrey Dalton, Sophie Fischer, Paul Owoicho, Filip Radlinski, Federico Rossetto, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani
- Introduction and Applications
- Historical Context
- Conversational Interfaces and Result Presentation
- Conversational Language Understanding and Response Ranking & Generation
- Mixed-Initiative Interactions
- CIS Evaluation (no public slide)
Interactive setup: All information and links required can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-8uPRahnPOIzEvU2GCj8t0CH-r6zIUFB/view?usp=sharing
Open Assistant Toolkit - An Open Toolkit for Production-ready Task systems: An open-source platform used to develop the 2022 Alexa Taskbot challenge https://github.com/grill-lab/OAT
TaskMAD - Multimodal WoZ toolkit: An open platform for multimodal structured WoZ experiments for information and task-oriented agents. https://github.com/grill-lab/TaskMAD
iCAsT: Link to Colab notebook can be found at: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1OR4zzfbWHhGkGRvPWhsn-1za2o2YIT5N?usp=sharing
To cite the CIS tutorial at SIGIR 2022, please use the following bibtex:
@inproceedings{TheCISTutorial-SIGIR2022,
author = {Dalton, Jeffrey and Fischer, Sophie and Owoicho, Paul and Radlinski, Filip and Rossetto, Federico and Trippas, Johanne R. and Zamani, Hamed},
title = {Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Application},
year = {2022},
isbn = {9781450387323},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3477495.3532678},
doi = {10.1145/3477495.3532678},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
pages = {3455–3458},
location = {Madrid, Spain},
series = {SIGIR '22}
}