EVENT

Talk on "Personalisation in Conversational Information Retrieval" by Prof. Fabio Crestani, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)

We are pleased to inform you about the upcoming seminar by Prof. Fabio Crestani, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland titled:"Personalisation in Conversational Information Retrieval" Everyone interested is cordially invited to attend!

Title:

Personalisation in Conversational Information Retrieval

Abstract:

In its history Information Retrieval (IR) has undergone many changes. Such changes have almost always brought a leap in the improvement of IR performance. The latest significant change we saw was brought forward by the conversational approach to IR. Conversational IR (CIR) enables a user to initiate a dialogue with the system to explain and clarify his/her information need and, through a sequence of simple interactions and in a natural way, arrive at a small set of relevant documents. For this critical change to fully achieve its potential, we need to move the user to the centre of the CIR process and start thinking of Personalised CIR. Personalised CIR will bring a higher level of effectiveness and usability to IR and will enable it to realise its full potential of CIR. In this seminar I outline how this could be achieved.

Speaker Bio:

Fabio Crestani is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Universita' della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, since 2007. Previously he was a professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK and the University of Padua, Italy. He holds a degree in Statistics from the University of Padua (I) and a MSc and PhD in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow. Prof Crestani works in Information Retrieval, Text Mining and Digital Libraries. In these areas he has published extensively on both theoretical and experimental aspects. He also served in the organising and program committees of several conferences and in the editorial boards of several journals.

Time/Date:

16:00-17:00 June 3 (Monday), 2024

Place:

Room 1208, NII

Online:

zoom

Contact:

Please register before 13:00 on June 3rd, JST (UTC + 9), at;
https://forms.gle/ZJNKZneLGcF1qUYM8

For the Online participation, the Zoom link will be sent to the registered
participants on the day before the event and by 15:00 on June 3rd, JST (UTC + 9).