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Accessibility in Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi, Vishwa Vinay
This paper introduces the concept of accessibility from the field of transportation planning and adopts it within the context of Information Retrieval (IR). An analogy is drawn bet…
Revealing Cumulative Risks in Online Personal Information: A Data Narrative Study
Emma Nicol, Jo Briggs, Wendy Moncur +4
When pieces from an individual's personal information available online are connected over time and across multiple platforms, this more complete digital trace can give unintended i…
Improving BERT-based Query-by-Document Retrieval with Multi-Task Optimization
Amin Abolghasemi, Suzan Verberne, Leif Azzopardi
Query-by-document (QBD) retrieval is an Information Retrieval task in which a seed document acts as the query and the goal is to retrieve related documents -- it is particular comm…
Towards Building Economic Models of Conversational Search
Leif Azzopardi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Evangelos Kanoulas
Various conceptual and descriptive models of conversational search have been proposed in the literature -- while useful, they do not provide insights into how interaction between t…
Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Leif Azzopardi, Hamed Zamani +3
Information seeking conversations between users and Conversational Search Agents (CSAs) consist of multiple turns of interaction. While users initiate a search session, ideally a C…
A Survey Investigating Usage of Virtual Personal Assistants
Mateusz Dubiel, Martin Halvey, Leif Azzopardi
Despite significant improvements in automatic speech recognition and spoken language understanding - human interaction with Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) through speech remain…