cis-tutorial.github.io

This page include supplementary tutorial material for the “Conversational Information Seeking” book.

The CIS Book

Title: Conversational Information Seeking

• Draft 1.2 (January 2023): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08808.pdf

Authors:

• Hamed Zamani, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
• Johanne R. Trippas, RMIT University, Australia
• Jeffrey Dalton, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Filip Radlinski, Google, United Kingdom

Citation: To cite the CIS book, please use the following bibtex:

@article{TheCISBook,
  author = {Zamani, Hamed and Trippas, Johanne R. and Dalton, Jeffrey and Radlinski, Filip},
  title = {Conversational Information Seeking},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Now Publishers},
  journal = {Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval},
  note = {(to appear)},
}

The CIS Tutorial @ The Web Conf 2023

Presenters (in alphabetical order):

Jeffrey Dalton, Filip Radlinski, Federico Rossetto, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani

Presentation Slides:

• Introduction and Applications
• Historical Context
• Large Language Models and Retrieval Augmentation
• Conversational Language Understanding and Response Ranking & Generation
• Mixed-Initiative Interactions
• Conversational Interfaces and Result Presentation
• CIS Evaluation (no public slide)

Hands-on Practices:

Slides:

• OAT
• ConvSim

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The CIS Tutorial @ SIGIR 2022

Presenters (in alphabetical order):

Jeffrey Dalton, Sophie Fischer, Paul Owoicho, Filip Radlinski, Federico Rossetto, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani

Presentation Slides:

• Introduction and Applications
• Historical Context
• Conversational Interfaces and Result Presentation
• Conversational Language Understanding and Response Ranking & Generation
• Mixed-Initiative Interactions
• CIS Evaluation (no public slide)

Hands-on Practices:

Slides:

• OAT and TaskMAD
• Interactive CAsT

Additional Resources:

Interactive setup: All information and links required can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-8uPRahnPOIzEvU2GCj8t0CH-r6zIUFB/view?usp=sharing

Open Assistant Toolkit - An Open Toolkit for Production-ready Task systems: An open-source platform used to develop the 2022 Alexa Taskbot challenge https://github.com/grill-lab/OAT

TaskMAD - Multimodal WoZ toolkit: An open platform for multimodal structured WoZ experiments for information and task-oriented agents. https://github.com/grill-lab/TaskMAD

iCAsT: Link to Colab notebook can be found at: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1OR4zzfbWHhGkGRvPWhsn-1za2o2YIT5N?usp=sharing

Citation:

To cite the CIS tutorial at SIGIR 2022, please use the following bibtex:

@inproceedings{TheCISTutorial-SIGIR2022,
  author = {Dalton, Jeffrey and Fischer, Sophie and Owoicho, Paul and Radlinski, Filip and Rossetto, Federico and Trippas, Johanne R. and Zamani, Hamed},
  title = {Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Application},
  year = {2022},
  isbn = {9781450387323},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3477495.3532678},
  doi = {10.1145/3477495.3532678},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
  pages = {3455–3458},
  location = {Madrid, Spain},
  series = {SIGIR '22}
}