Conversational Search

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• Ranking Manipulation for Conversational Search Engines
  5 Jun 2024 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 12 of 20 samples · 8 unverified · 20 pointer-only (licence)
  These conversational search engines operate by loading retrieved website text into the LLM context for summarization and interpretation.
• V3CTRON | Data Retrieval & Access System For Flexible Semantic Search & Retrieval Of Proprietary Document Collections Using Natural Language Queries.
  26 Apr 2023 3 repositories listed
  V3CTRON is an open source vector database that allows users to upload text based documents & document collections, which are automatically embedded for super-accurate semantic search & retrieval using natural language…
• Can We Use Large Language Models to Fill Relevance Judgment Holes?
  9 May 2024 2 repositories listed
  Incomplete relevance judgments limit the re-usability of test collections.
• Detecting Generated Native Ads in Conversational Search
  7 Feb 2024 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we thus take a first step to investigate whether LLMs can also be used as a countermeasure, i.
• Large Language Models Know Your Contextual Search Intent: A Prompting Framework for Conversational Search
  12 Mar 2023 2 repositories listed
  Precisely understanding users' contextual search intent has been an important challenge for conversational search.
• Introducing MANtIS: a novel Multi-Domain Information Seeking Dialogues Dataset
  10 Dec 2019 2 repositories listed
  Conversational search is an approach to information retrieval (IR), where users engage in a dialogue with an agent in order to satisfy their information needs.
• Attentive History Selection for Conversational Question Answering
  26 Aug 2019 2 repositories listed
  First, we propose a positional history answer embedding method to encode conversation history with position information using BERT in a natural way.
• ConvSearch-R1: Enhancing Query Reformulation for Conversational Search with Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
  21 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Conversational search systems require effective handling of context-dependent queries that often contain ambiguity, omission, and coreference.
• Efficient Conversational Search via Topical Locality in Dense Retrieval
  30 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Pre-trained language models have been widely exploited to learn dense representations of documents and queries for information retrieval.
• Dense Passage Retrieval in Conversational Search
  21 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Information retrieval systems have traditionally relied on exact term match methods such as BM25 for first-stage retrieval.
• Improving the Reusability of Conversational Search Test Collections
  12 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  We show that filling the holes using few-shot training the Llama 3.
• Conversational Gold: Evaluating Personalized Conversational Search System using Gold Nuggets
  12 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Built on this resource, we provide a framework for long-form answer generation evaluation, involving nuggets extraction and nuggets matching, linked to retrieval.
• DiSCo: LLM Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Sparse Retrieval in Conversational Search
  18 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  To overcome these limitations, we introduce DiSCo (Distillation of Sparse Conversational retrieval), a novel approach that unifies retrieval and context modeling through a relaxed distillation objective.
• SAPIENT: Mastering Multi-turn Conversational Recommendation with Strategic Planning and Monte Carlo Tree Search
  12 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  S-planner builds a conversational search tree with MCTS based on the initial actions proposed by S-agent to find conversation plans.
• Conversational Exploratory Search of Scholarly Publications Using Knowledge Graphs
  1 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Traditional search methods primarily depend on string matches, while semantic search targets concept-based matches by recognizing underlying intents and contextual meanings of search terms.
• Aligning Query Representation with Rewritten Query and Relevance Judgments in Conversational Search
  29 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we leverage both rewritten queries and relevance judgments in the conversational search data to train a better query representation model.
• Using LLMs to Investigate Correlations of Conversational Follow-up Queries with User Satisfaction
  18 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  From qualitative analysis of 250 conversational turns from an in-lab user evaluation of Naver Cue:, a commercial conversational search engine, we propose a taxonomy of 18 users' follow-up query patterns from…
• AdaCQR: Enhancing Query Reformulation for Conversational Search via Sparse and Dense Retrieval Alignment
  2 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Conversational Query Reformulation (CQR) has significantly advanced in addressing the challenges of conversational search, particularly those stemming from the latent user intent and the need for historical context.
• CHIQ: Contextual History Enhancement for Improving Query Rewriting in Conversational Search
  7 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we study how open-source large language models (LLMs) can be effectively deployed for improving query rewriting in conversational search, especially for ambiguous queries.
• Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search
  6 May 2024 1 repository listed
  Our results show that responses generated explicitly using extracted preferences better match user's actual preferences, highlighting the value of using extracted preferences over simple dialogue history.
• Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking
  6 May 2024 1 repository listed
  We design a user study to answer questions concerning the impact of (1) the quality of explanations enhancing the response on its usefulness and (2) ways of presenting explanations to users.
• TREC iKAT 2023: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants
  4 May 2024 1 repository listed
  Conversational information seeking has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), providing the basis for interpreting and responding in a naturalistic manner to user…
• ChatRetriever: Adapting Large Language Models for Generalized and Robust Conversational Dense Retrieval
  21 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  Conversational search requires accurate interpretation of user intent from complex multi-turn contexts.
• ConvSDG: Session Data Generation for Conversational Search
  17 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Conversational search provides a more convenient interface for users to search by allowing multi-turn interaction with the search engine.
• Towards Self-Contained Answers: Entity-Based Answer Rewriting in Conversational Search
  4 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  One approach expands answers with inline definitions of salient entities, making the answer self-contained.
• Interpreting Conversational Dense Retrieval by Rewriting-Enhanced Inversion of Session Embedding
  20 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Such transformation is achieved by training a recently proposed Vec2Text model based on the ad-hoc query encoder, leveraging the fact that the session and query embeddings share the same space in existing conversational…
• Asking Multimodal Clarifying Questions in Mixed-Initiative Conversational Search
  12 Feb 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 7 of 8 samples · 1 unverified · 8 pointer-only (licence)
  Therefore, we propose to add images to clarifying questions and formulate the novel task of asking multimodal clarifying questions in open-domain, mixed-initiative conversational search systems.
• Generalizing Conversational Dense Retrieval via LLM-Cognition Data Augmentation
  11 Feb 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  ConvAug first generates multi-level augmented conversations to capture the diverse nature of conversational contexts.
• History-Aware Conversational Dense Retrieval
  30 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  To address the aforementioned issues, we propose a History-Aware Conversational Dense Retrieval (HAConvDR) system, which incorporates two ideas: context-denoised query reformulation and automatic mining of supervision…
• Walert: Putting Conversational Search Knowledge into Action by Building and Evaluating a Large Language Model-Powered Chatbot
  14 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Creating and deploying customized applications is crucial for operational success and enriching user experiences in the rapidly evolving modern business world.

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