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most citedAsking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations

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cs.IR2025

Zero-Shot and Efficient Clarification Need Prediction in Conversational Search

Lili Lu, Chuan Meng, Federico Ravenda +2

Clarification need prediction (CNP) is a key task in conversational search, aiming to predict whether to ask a clarifying question or give an answer to the current user query. Howe…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Interactions with Generative Information Retrieval Systems

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jacek Gwizdka, Hamed Zamani

At its core, information access and seeking is an interactive process. In existing search engines, interactions are limited to a few pre-defined actions, such as "requery", "click…

cs.IR2023★ 35 cited

Query Performance Prediction: From Ad-hoc to Conversational Search

Chuan Meng, Negar Arabzadeh, Mohammad Aliannejadi +1

Query performance prediction (QPP) is a core task in information retrieval. The QPP task is to predict the retrieval quality of a search system for a query without relevance judgme…

cs.IR2023★ 31 cited

Exploiting Simulated User Feedback for Conversational Search: Ranking, Rewriting, and Beyond

Paul Owoicho, Ivan Sekulić, Mohammad Aliannejadi +2

This research aims to explore various methods for assessing user feedback in mixed-initiative conversational search (CS) systems. While CS systems enjoy profuse advancements across…

cs.IR2022★ 19 cited

Understanding User Satisfaction with Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Maarten de Rijke

Dialogue systems are evaluated depending on their type and purpose. Two categories are often distinguished: (1) task-oriented dialogue systems (TDS), which are typically evaluat…

cs.IR2022★ 2 cited

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…