Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions
between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily …

Critical scholarship has elevated the problem of gender bias in data sets used to train virtual
assistants (VAs). Most work has focused on explicit biases in language, especially against …

Many questions of public interest do not have a single answer but come with a set of
choices, each of which with its pros and cons. An “objective” information system can help …

Most of information retrieval effectiveness evaluation metrics assume that systems
appending irrelevant documents at the bottom of the ranking are as effective as (or not …

As virtual assistants continue to be taken up globally, there is an ever-greater need for these
speech-based systems to communicate naturally in a variety of languages. Crowdsourcing …

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, study, and conduct research.
Ongoing stresses and uncertainties of the pandemic have impacted research activities and …

The First Early Career Researchers Roundtable for Information Access Research Workshop,
in conjunction with the Seventh ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and …

We humans have always strived to endow an automated agent to help in getting information
as easily as we would from a human. The rise of intelligent voice-enabled agents, such as …