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CRS Arena: Crowdsourced Benchmarking of Conversational Recommender Systems
Nolwenn Bernard, Hideaki Joko, Faegheh Hasibi +1
We introduce CRS Arena, a research platform for scalable benchmarking of Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) based on human feedback. The platform displays pairwise battles be…
Report on the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024
Timo Breuer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Norbert Fuhr +15
This paper is a report of the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA) workshop at SIGIR 2024. The workshop had two keynotes, a panel discussion, nine lightning talk…
Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access
Nolwenn Bernard, Krisztian Balog
User simulation is a promising approach for automatically training and evaluating conversational information access agents, enabling the generation of synthetic dialogues and facil…
Identifying Breakdowns in Conversational Recommender Systems using User Simulation
Nolwenn Bernard, Krisztian Balog
We present a methodology to systematically test conversational recommender systems with regards to conversational breakdowns. It involves examining conversations generated between…
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…