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Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation
Weronika Łajewska, Krisztian Balog
Research on conversational search has so far mostly focused on query rewriting and multi-stage passage retrieval. However, synthesizing the top retrieved passages into a complete,…
Large Language Models are Competitive Near Cold-start Recommenders for Language- and Item-based Preferences
Scott Sanner, Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski +2
Traditional recommender systems leverage users' item preference history to recommend novel content that users may like. However, modern dialog interfaces that allow users to expres…
User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems
Krisztian Balog, ChengXiang Zhai
Information access systems, such as search engines, recommender systems, and conversational assistants, have become integral to our daily lives as they help us satisfy our informat…
MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce
Nolwenn Bernard, Krisztian Balog
Conversational systems can be particularly effective in supporting complex information seeking scenarios with evolving information needs. Finding the right products on an e-commerc…
An Ecosystem for Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Survey and Research Roadmap
Martin G. Skjæveland, Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard +2
This paper presents an ecosystem for personal knowledge graphs (PKGs), commonly defined as resources of structured information about entities related to an individual, their attrib…
Measuring the Impact of Explanation Bias: A Study of Natural Language Justifications for Recommender Systems
Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski, Andrey Petrov
Despite the potential impact of explanations on decision making, there is a lack of research on quantifying their effect on users' choices. This paper presents an experimental prot…