4 papers
MICROS: Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems Workshop
Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Mohammad Aliannejadi +1
The 1st edition of the workshop on Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems (MICROS@ECIR2021) aims at investigating and collecting novel ideas and contributions in the field of conv…
Topic Propagation in Conversational Search
I. Mele, C. I. Muntean, F. M. Nardini +3
In a conversational context, a user expresses her multi-faceted information need as a sequence of natural-language questions, i.e., utterances. Starting from a given topic, the con…
Topical Result Caching in Web Search Engines
Ida Mele, Nicola Tonellotto, Ophir Frieder +1
Caching search results is employed in information retrieval systems to expedite query processing and reduce back-end server workload. Motivated by the observation that queries belo…
Personalized Ranking for Context-Aware Venue Suggestion
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ida Mele, Fabio Crestani
Making personalized and context-aware suggestions of venues to the users is very crucial in venue recommendation. These suggestions are often based on matching the venues' features…