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Efficient Conversational Search via Topical Locality in Dense Retrieval
Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego +2
Pre-trained language models have been widely exploited to learn dense representations of documents and queries for information retrieval. While previous efforts have primarily focu…
Rewriting Conversational Utterances with Instructed Large Language Models
Elnara Galimzhanova, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini +2
Many recent studies have shown the ability of large language models (LLMs) to achieve state-of-the-art performance on many NLP tasks, such as question answering, text summarization…
Caching Historical Embeddings in Conversational Search
Ophir Frieder, Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean +3
Rapid response, namely low latency, is fundamental in search applications; it is particularly so in interactive search sessions, such as those encountered in conversational setting…
MICROS: Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems Workshop
Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Mohammad Aliannejadi +1
The 1st edition of the workshop on Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems (MICROS@ECIR2021) aims at investigating and collecting novel ideas and contributions in the field of conv…
Topic Propagation in Conversational Search
I. Mele, C. I. Muntean, F. M. Nardini +3
In a conversational context, a user expresses her multi-faceted information need as a sequence of natural-language questions, i.e., utterances. Starting from a given topic, the con…
Sentiment-enhanced Multidimensional Analysis of Online Social Networks: Perception of the Mediterranean Refugees Crisis
Mauro Coletto, Claudio Lucchese, Cristina Ioana Muntean +4
We propose an analytical framework able to investigate discussions about polarized topics in online social networks from many different angles. The framework supports the analysis…