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most citedA Survey Investigating Usage of Virtual Personal Assistants

12 citations · 20 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

A Conceptual Framework for Conversational Search and Recommendation: Conceptualizing Agent-Human Interactions During the Conversational Search Process

Leif Azzopardi, Mateusz Dubiel, Martin Halvey +1

The conversational search task aims to enable a user to resolve information needs via natural language dialogue with an agent. In this paper, we aim to develop a conceptual framewo…

cs.HC2024★ 3 cited

The Influence of Presentation and Performance on User Satisfaction

Kanaad Pathak, Leif Azzopardi, Martin Halvey

The effectiveness of an IR system is gauged not just by its ability to retrieve relevant results but also by how it presents these results to users; an engaging presentation often…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Ranking Heterogeneous Search Result Pages using the Interactive Probability Ranking Principle

Kanaad Pathak, Leif Azzopardi, Martin Halvey

The Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) ranks search results based on their expected utility derived solely from document contents, often overlooking the nuances of presentation an…

cs.HC2018★ 12 cited

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…

cs.IR2015★ 2 cited

Augmented Test Collections: A Step in the Right Direction

Laura Hasler, Martin Halvey, Robert Villa

In this position paper we argue that certain aspects of relevance assessment in the evaluation of IR systems are oversimplified and that human assessments represented by qrels shou…

cs.IR2009★ 1 cited

Collaborative Search Trails for Video Search

Frank Hopfgartner, David Vallet, Martin Halvey +1

In this paper we present an approach for supporting users in the difficult task of searching for video. We use collaborative feedback mined from the interactions of earlier users o…