Call For Papers

We invite researchers to submit their latest work to the ET-CIR 2024 workshop on Emerging Trends in Conversational Information Retrieval. Submissions focusing on new directions and emerging work in Conversational Information Retrieval which create discussion are strongly encouraged.

Submission Website : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umcir2024

Key dates

  • Submission deadline: October 3, 2024 October 10, 2024
  • Acceptance notification: October 18, 2024 October 28, 2024
  • Workshop Date: December 13, 2024

Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth).

Themes and Topics

We encourage submissions that relate (but not limited) to the following themes and topics with a focus on the emerging tensds in conversational information retrieval:

  • New methods for modelling users in CIR (personalization)
  • Modelling user emotion
  • Mining and modelling users
  • User knowledge representation and extraction
  • Datasets: new source, new way to collect
  • Introducing personalization
  • Focusing on specialized user groups and personality, for example psychologically affected users
  • Alignment between current user modelling and the real user in CIR
  • Modelling user and user’s behaviour
  • Conversational Knowledge extraction and representation
  • Other theoretical models and foundations of user-centric modelling of CIR.
  • User simulation of CIR
  • Dataset for user simulation of CIR
  • Other theoretical models and foundations of user simulation of CIR.
  • User-centered evaluation of CIR
  • User studies, user engagement
  • System-oriented evaluation of CIR
  • Simulated Evaluation of CIR
  • Metrics to measure the effectiveness of CIR
  • Data sets, Test collection, Resources
  • Other theoretical models and foundations of user-centric evaluation of CIR.

Submission Details

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in PDF format following the workshop instructions Submission Website.

Submissions of papers must be at least 2 pages and at most 9 pages in length, with unlimited pages for references. We welcome extended abstract, opinion piece, perspective papers and provocation paper. Submissions of papers must be in English, in PDF format, in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word).

All submissions of papers must be original and have not been published or accepted elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.The review process of the submitted manuscripts will be done together with our programme committee. The selection will depend on the technical soundness and relevance of submissions to the community that the workshop is targeting.