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Faithful Query Resolution for Conversational Search
Saber Zerhoudi, Ivica Kostric, Jelena Mitrovic
Conversational query rewriting makes context-dependent requests explicit for retrieval, but additional context can introduce an information need the user did not express. This rais…
A Standardized Re-evaluation of Conversational Recommender Systems on the ReDial Dataset
Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog
Recent years have seen a surge of research into conversational recommender systems (CRS). Among existing datasets, ReDial is the most widely used benchmark, cited in hundreds of st…
RecQuest: Towards Estimating User Domain Knowledge in Conversational Recommender Systems
Ivica Kostric, Ujwal Gadiraju, Krisztian Balog
The ideal conversational recommender system (CRS) acts like a savvy salesperson, adapting its language and suggestions to a user's expertise level. However, most current systems tr…
UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
Weronika Łajewska, Ivica Kostric, Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz +2
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) faces challenges related to factual correctness, source attribution, and response completeness. The LiveRAG Challenge hosted at SIGIR'25 aims t…
Should We Tailor the Talk? Understanding the Impact of Conversational Styles on Preference Elicitation in Conversational Recommender Systems
Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, Ujwal Gadiraju
Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) provide users with an interactive means to express preferences and receive real-time personalized recommendations. The success of these sy…
A Surprisingly Simple yet Effective Multi-Query Rewriting Method for Conversational Passage Retrieval
Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog
Conversational passage retrieval is challenging as it often requires the resolution of references to previous utterances and needs to deal with the complexities of natural language…
IAI MovieBot 2.0: An Enhanced Research Platform with Trainable Neural Components and Transparent User Modeling
Nolwenn Bernard, Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog
While interest in conversational recommender systems has been on the rise, operational systems suitable for serving as research platforms for comprehensive studies are currently la…
PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management
Nolwenn Bernard, Ivica Kostric, Weronika Łajewska +4
Personal knowledge graphs (PKGs) offer individuals a way to store and consolidate their fragmented personal data in a central place, improving service personalization while maintai…
DAGFiNN: A Conversational Conference Assistant
Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, Tølløv Alexander Aresvik +10
DAGFiNN is a conversational conference assistant that can be made available for a given conference both as a chatbot on the website and as a Furhat robot physically exhibited at th…
Generating Usage-related Questions for Preference Elicitation in Conversational Recommender Systems
Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski
A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over traditional recommender systems is their ability to elicit user preferences using natural language. Currentl…