The Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24) was held on March 24^th, 2024, in conjunction with the 46^th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024) in Glasgow, Scotland. Over the day, more than 50 ...

Conversational Agents are increasingly integrated into our daily routines, assisting us with various tasks, from simple commands such as scheduling events to more complex conversational search interactions. Such conversational search systems are ...

Isidore of Seville is credited with the adage that it is language that gives birth to a people, and not the other way around, underlining the profound role played by language in the formation of cultural and social identity. Today, of the more than 7100 ...

This thesis is positioned at the intersection of several research fields, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval (IR) and Computer Vision, which have unified around representation learning and pre-training methods. We have defined and studied ...

This is a report on the fourteenth edition of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2023), held on September 18--21, 2023, in Thessaloniki, Greece. CLEF was a four-day hybrid event combining a conference and an evaluation forum. The ...

The first edition of the International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT'23) was held on July 27th, 2023, in conjunction with the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in ...

The 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop is the thirteenth edition of the annual conference of the Italian information retrieval and recommender systems communities. The two days of the conference gathered interesting studies and research work on ...

Artificial intelligence (AI), specifically, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is being hailed as a new breeding ground for immense innovation potential. Researchers believe that NLP-based technologies could help to solve societal issues such as equality ...

Search is far from being a solved problem. While search engines may cope well with simple tasks, searchers and systems struggle as task complexity increases. Task is central to the search process, motivating the search and driving search behavior. ...

At ICTIR 2023, which took place on July 23, 2023 in Taipei, I talked about the dark sides of the Large Language Model (LLM) era, and a tentative framework for auditing LLM-based conversational search systems to protect the users from undesirable system ...

The Sixth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'23) was held on April 2^nd, 2023, in conjunction with the 45^th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023) in Dublin, Ireland. Continuing the tradition of past ...

The process of peer-review is considered as the sentinel of science in scholarly communications. However, with the deluge of research articles and the overload of scholarly information, it is increasingly becoming difficult for humans to keep up with ...

Search engines leverage knowledge to improve information access. Such knowledge comes in different forms: unstructured knowledge (e.g., textual documents) and structured knowledge (e.g., relationships between real-world objects and topics). In order to ...

The 6th edition of the Search-Oriented Conversational AI workshop (SCAI 2021) was organised as a discussion platform on conversational AI for intelligent information access. The workshop was designed to be multidisciplinary, bringing together ...

The first workshop on Argumentation Knowledge Graphs (ArgKG) was held virtually at the Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2021) conference on October 7, 2021. ArgKG @ AKBC 2021 brought together the Computational Argumentation and Knowledge ...

The SummDial special session on summarization of dialogues and multi-party meetings was held virtually within the SIGDial 2021 conference on July 29, 2021. SummDial @ SIGDial 2021 aimed to bring together the speech, dialogue, and summarization ...

This paper outlines a conceptual framework for understanding recent developments in information retrieval and natural language processing that attempts to integrate dense and sparse retrieval methods. I propose a representational approach that breaks ...

We report on the First Workshop on Bias in Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction (KG-BIAS), which was co-located with the Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) 2020 conference. Identifying and possibly remediating any sort of bias in knowledge ...

While search engines have reshaped how human beings learn and think, the interaction paradigm of search has remained relatively stable for decades. With the development of neural science and biomedical engineering, it is possible to build a direct ...

Supervised machine learning methods that use neural networks ("deep learning") have yielded substantial improvements to a multitude of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in the past decade. Improvements to Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such as ...