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Beyond States: Investigating the Effects of Context on User Modeling with Feature-Conditioned Markov Models
Jana Isabelle Friese, Andreas Konstantin Kruff, Timo Breuer +2
User behavior simulation is widely used to evaluate interactive information retrieval systems, but classical state-based approaches (e.g., Markov models) have limited ability to in…
LISP -- A Rich Interaction Dataset and Loggable Interactive Search Platform
Jana Isabelle Friese, Andreas Konstantin Kruff, Philipp Schaer +2
We present a reusable dataset and accompanying infrastructure for studying human search behavior in Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR). The dataset combines detailed interacti…
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…
Context-Driven Interactive Query Simulations Based on Generative Large Language Models
Björn Engelmann, Timo Breuer, Jana Isabelle Friese +2
Simulating user interactions enables a more user-oriented evaluation of information retrieval (IR) systems. While user simulations are cost-efficient and reproducible, many approac…
Validating Synthetic Usage Data in Living Lab Environments
Timo Breuer, Norbert Fuhr, Philipp Schaer
Evaluating retrieval performance without editorial relevance judgments is challenging, but instead, user interactions can be used as relevance signals. Living labs offer a way for…