6 papers
Report on The 1st Workshop on Human-Centered Proactive and Personalized Agents for Interactive Information Access at CHIIR 2026
Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta, Tanya Roosta +3
Interactive information access is increasingly moving beyond reactive query-response paradigms toward agentic systems that can personalize interaction, retain context, infer latent…
Forgotten History or Test-of-Time? Retrospect and Prospect on RAG from an IR Perspective
Xiaoyan Zhao, Yujie Cai, Yang Zhang +2
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely regarded as a novel paradigm born from the limitations of large language models (LLMs)--a mechanism to ground their outputs in extern…
Agents in the Wild: Where Research Meets Deployment
Grace Hui Yang, Pranav N. Venkit, Hooman Sedghamiz +3
Agentic systems large language model (LLM) based architectures capable of reasoning, planning, acting, and coordinating with tools and other agents are rapidly transitioning from r…
Dual Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning for Legal Inquisitive Conversational Agents
Xubo Lin, Zezhi Deng, Shihao Wang +2
Most existing dialogue systems are user-driven, primarily designed to fulfill user requests. However, in many critical real-world scenarios, a conversational agent must proactively…
YIELD: A Large-Scale Dataset and Evaluation Framework for Information Elicitation Agents
Victor De Lima, Grace Hui Yang
Most conversational agents (CAs) are designed to satisfy user needs through user-driven interactions. However, many real-world settings, such as academic interviewing, judicial pro…
FrameRef: A Framing Dataset and Simulation Testbed for Modeling Bounded Rational Information Health
Victor De Lima, Jiqun Liu, Grace Hui Yang
Information ecosystems increasingly shape how people internalize exposure to adverse digital experiences, raising concerns about the long-term consequences for information health.…