2 papers
cs.IR2026
Improving Ad-hoc Search Effectiveness for Conversational Information Retrieval via Model Merging
Ahmed Rayane Kebir, Jose G. Moreno, Lynda Tamine
Conversational information retrieval is challenging since it requires the consideration of the conversation history which potentially gives rise to topic shifts and coreference res…
cs.CL2026
RAC: Retrieval-Augmented Clarification for Faithful Conversational Search
Ahmed Rayane Kebir, Vincent Guigue, Lynda Said Lhadj +1
Clarification questions help conversational search systems resolve ambiguous or underspecified user queries. While prior work has focused on fluency and alignment with user intent,…