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MICROS: Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems Workshop

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021)

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The 1st edition of the workshop on Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems (MICROS@ECIR2021) aims at investigating and collecting novel ideas and contributions in the field of conversational systems. Oftentimes, the users fulfill their information need using smartphones and home assistants. This has revolutionized the way users access online information, thus posing new challenges compared to traditional search and recommendation. The first edition of MICROS will have a particular focus on mixed-initiative conversational systems. Indeed, conversational systems need to be proactive, proposing not only answers but also possible interpretations for ambiguous or vague requests.

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  1. IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy

    Ida Mele

  2. ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Cristina Ioana Muntean

  3. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Mohammad Aliannejadi & Nikos Voskarides

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  1. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Djoerd Hiemstra

  2. Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

    Marie-Francine Moens

  3. Toulouse, Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research, Toulouse, France

    Josiane Mothe

  4. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy

    Raffaele Perego

  5. Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

    Martin Potthast

  6. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy

    Fabrizio Sebastiani

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Mele, I., Muntean, C.I., Aliannejadi, M., Voskarides, N. (2021). MICROS: Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems Workshop. In: Hiemstra, D., Moens, MF., Mothe, J., Perego, R., Potthast, M., Sebastiani, F. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12657. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72240-1_86

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