The Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval

CAIR 2018


Data Mining & Analysis Databases & Information Systems



Apologies for cross-postings
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'18)
https://sites.google.com/view/cair-ws/cair-2018
at SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 12, 2018
IMPORTANT DATES
Early-Bird Submission Due: April 12, 2018
Regular Submission Due: May 4, 2018
Early-Bird Notification: May 4, 2018
SIGIR 2018 Early-Bird Registration Due: May 5, 2018
Regular Notification: May 25, 2018
Workshop: July 12, 2018
INTRODUCTION
Recent advances in commercial conversational services that allow naturally spoken and typed interaction, particularly for well-formulated questions and commands, have increased the need for more human-centric interactions in information retrieval. The Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'18) will again bring together academic and industrial researchers to create a forum for research on conversational approaches to search. A specific focus will be on techniques that support complex and multi-turn user-machine dialogues for information access and retrieval, and multi-model interfaces for interacting with such systems. We invite submissions addressing all modalities of conversation, including speech-based, text-based, and multimodal interaction. We also welcome studies of human-human interaction (e.g., collaborative search) that can inform the design of conversational search applications, and work on evaluation of conversational approaches.
SCOPE
The workshop welcomes a broad range of studies that can contribute to the development of conversational approaches to IR. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Query understanding and search process management
Processing verbose natural language queries
Processing noisy ASR queries
Query intent disambiguation, clarification, confirmation
Query suggestion
Relevance feedback in conversational search
Voice-based search engine operations
Dialogue schema for conversational search
Search result description (presentation)
Audio-based search result presentation and summarization
Conversational navigation of search results
Knowledge graph presentation in conversational search
Advertisements in audio-based search result presentation
Ranking algorithms
Ad-hoc spoken search
Spoken search in session
Evaluation
Building test collections for conversational search
Development of new metrics to measure effectiveness, engagement, satisfaction of conversational search
Applications
Intelligent personal assistance
Intelligent home assistance using voice / speech oriented devices
Proactive search/Recommendation
Collaborative search
Hands free search (e.g., in car, kitchen)
Search for visually impaired users
Search for low literacy users
Integration with existing technologies
HOW TO SUBMIT
Long paper: 6 pages max.
Short paper: 4 pages max.
Format: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cair18
Accepted full papers will be granted an optional +2 pages to address comments from the reviewers and will have an oral presentation at the workshop. Short papers can include position papers and panel discussion proposals, in addition to the latest findings of your work. Accepted short papers will have a poster presentation at the workshop.
All submissions will be reviewed by the PC committee chaired by the workshop
organizers. Submission must include the name and affiliations of authors.
We are having two rounds of submissions. The Early Bird Submission deadline (April 12, 2018) is for authors who wish to take advantage of the SIGIR 2018 Early Bird registration rate. Acceptance notifications will one day prior to the Early Bird registration expiration date (May 4, 2018).
Please note that papers that are not accepted during the Early Bird submission round cannot be resubmitted to the Regular submission round.
IMPORTANT DATES
Early-Bird Submission Due: April 12, 2018
Regular Submission Due: May 4, 2018
Early-Bird Notification: May 4, 2018
SIGIR 2018 Early-Bird Registration Due: May 5, 2018
Regular Notification: May 25, 2018
Workshop: July 12, 2018
PC MEMBERS
TBA
ORGANIZERS
Jaime Arguello (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)
Julia Kiseleva (University of Amsterdam)
Filip Radlinski (Google)
Damiano Spina (RMIT University)
STEERING COMMITTEE
Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University)
Fernando Diaz (Spotify)
Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Google)
Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft)
and organisers
CONTACT
Please contact the workshop organisers via cair-organisers at googlegroups dot com for any enquiries.