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A Conversational Search Transcription Protocol and Analysis
The analysis of spoken interactions between human participants, for the purpose of understanding tactics and strategies for performing …
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A Conversational Search Transcription Protocol and Analysis
Crowdsourcing User Preferences and Query Judgments for Speech-Only Search
The analysis of spoken interactions between human participants, for the purpose of understanding tactics and strategies for performing …
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Crowdsourcing User Preferences and Query Judgments for Speech-Only Search
How Do People Interact in Conversational Speech-Only Search Tasks: A Preliminary Analysis
We present preliminary findings from a study of mixed initiative conversational behaviour for informational search in an acoustic …
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How Do People Interact in Conversational Speech-Only Search Tasks: A Preliminary Analysis
Understanding User Behavior in Job and Talent Search: An Initial Investigation
The Web has created a global marketplace for e-Commerce as well as for talent. Online employment marketplaces provide an effective …
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Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval
Retrieving finer grained text units such as passages or sentences as answers for non-factoid Web queries is becoming increasingly …
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RMIT @ TREC 2016 Dynamic Domain: Exploiting Passage Representation for Retrieval and Relevance Feedback
The TREC Dynamic Domain search task addresses search scenarios where users engage interactively with search systems to tackle …
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Active Learning for Entity Filtering in Microblog Streams
Monitoring the reputation of entities such as companies or brands in microblog streams (e.g., Twitter) starts by selecting mentions …
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Harnessing Semantics for Answer Sentence Retrieval
Finding answer passages from the Web is a challenging task. One major difficulty is to retrieve sentences that may not have many terms …
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Results Presentation Methods for a Spoken Conversational Search System
We propose research to investigate a new paradigm for Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) where all input and output is mediated …
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SpeakerLDA: Discovering Topics in Transcribed Multi-Speaker Audio Contents
Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been extensively used for characterizing text collections according to the …
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