How to approach ambiguous queries in conversational search: A survey of techniques, approaches, tools, and challenges

K Keyvan, JX Huang - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The advent of recent Natural Language Processing technology has led human and machine
interactions more toward conversation. In Conversational Search Systems (CSS) like …

Open-world machine learning: applications, challenges, and opportunities

J Parmar, S Chouhan, V Raychoudhury… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Traditional machine learning, mainly supervised learning, follows the assumptions of closed-
world learning, ie, for each testing class, a training class is available. However, such …

Conversational information seeking

H Zamani, JR Trippas, J Dalton… - … and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
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 …

Evaluating and informing the design of chatbots

M Jain, P Kumar, R Kota, SN Patel - Proceedings of the 2018 designing …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Text messaging-based conversational agents (CAs), popularly called chatbots, received
significant attention in the last two years. However, chatbots are still in their nascent stage …

Talk to me: Exploring user interactions with the Amazon Alexa

I Lopatovska, K Rink, I Knight… - … of Librarianship and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Amazon Alexa is a voice-controlled application that is rapidly gaining popularity. We
examined user interactions with this technology, and focused on the types of tasks …

Siri, Alexa, and other digital assistants: a study of customer satisfaction with artificial intelligence applications

TM Brill, L Munoz, RJ Miller - The role of smart technologies in …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Digital assistants (eg, Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Google's Google Assistant) are highly
complex and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies. Individuals can use …

A theoretical framework for conversational search

F Radlinski, N Craswell - Proceedings of the 2017 conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
This paper studies conversational approaches to information retrieval, presenting a theory
and model of information interaction in a chat setting. In particular, we consider the question …

Understanding adoption of intelligent personal assistants: A parasocial relationship perspective

S Han, H Yang - Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2018 - emerald.com
Understanding adoption of intelligent personal assistants: A parasocial relationship perspective
| Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with …

The technology behind personal digital assistants: An overview of the system architecture and key components

R Sarikaya - IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have long envisioned that one day computers will understand natural language and
anticipate what we need, when and where we need it, and proactively complete tasks on our …

Research frontiers in information retrieval: Report from the third strategic workshop on information retrieval in lorne (swirl 2018)

JS Culpepper, F Diaz, MD Smucker - ACM SIGIR Forum, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The purpose of the Strategic Workshop in Information Retrieval in Lorne is to explore the
long-range issues of the Information Retrieval field, to recognize challenges that are on-or …