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Towards Self-Contained Answers: Entity-Based Answer Rewriting in Conversational Search
Ivan Sekulić, Krisztian Balog, Fabio Crestani
Conversational information-seeking (CIS) is an emerging paradigm for knowledge acquisition and exploratory search. Traditional web search interfaces enable easy exploration of enti…
Reliable LLM-based User Simulator for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Ivan Sekulić, Silvia Terragni, Victor Guimarães +5
In the realm of dialogue systems, user simulation techniques have emerged as a game-changer, redefining the evaluation and enhancement of task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems. Thes…
Estimating the Usefulness of Clarifying Questions and Answers for Conversational Search
Ivan Sekulić, Weronika Łajewska, Krisztian Balog +1
While the body of research directed towards constructing and generating clarifying questions in mixed-initiative conversational search systems is vast, research aimed at processing…
Analyzing Coherency in Facet-based Clarification Prompt Generation for Search
Oleg Litvinov, Ivan Sekulić, Mohammad Aliannejadi +1
Clarifying user's information needs is an essential component of modern search systems. While most of the approaches for constructing clarifying prompts rely on query facets, the i…
Exploiting Simulated User Feedback for Conversational Search: Ranking, Rewriting, and Beyond
Paul Owoicho, Ivan Sekulić, Mohammad Aliannejadi +2
This research aims to explore various methods for assessing user feedback in mixed-initiative conversational search (CS) systems. While CS systems enjoy profuse advancements across…