*Times are in GMT+8
Monday, July 27
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 1A – Neural IR and Semantic Matching
A Deep Recurrent Survival Model for Unbiased Ranking
Jiarui Jin, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Kan Ren, Guorui Zhou, Jian Xu, Yong Yu, Jun Wang, Xiaoqiang Zhu, Kun Gai
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 1A – Neural IR and Semantic Matching
A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Relevance Feedback
Ali Montazeralghaem, Hamed Zamani, James Allan
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 1C – Graph-based Analysis
Interactive Recommender System via Knowledge Graph-enhanced Reinforcement Learning
Sijin Zhou, Xinyi Dai, Haokun Chen, Weinan Zhang, Kan Ren, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Yong Yu
15:40 – 18:00 | Session 2A – Knowledge for Personalization
Leveraging Demonstrations for Reinforcement Recommendation Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs
Kangzhi Zhao, Xiting Wang, Yuren Zhang, Li Zhao, Zheng Liu, Chunxiao Xing, Xing Xie
20:00 – 22:00 | Short Paper Session II
CapableOf reasoning: A step towards commonsense oracle
Jingping Liu, Yanghua Xiao, Ao Wang, Liang He, Bin Shao
Contextual Re-Ranking with Behavior Aware Transformers
Chen Qu, Chenyan Xiong, Yizhe Zhang, Corby Rosset, W. Bruce Croft, Paul Bennett
Graph Regularization for Multi-lingual Topic Models
Arnav Kumar Jain, Gundeep Arora, Rahul Agrawal
Proactive Suggestion Generation:Data and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance
Elnaz Nouri, Ryen White, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney
Recipe Retrieval with Visual Query of Ingredients
Yen-Chieh Lien, Hamed Zamani, Bruce Croft
Studying Ransomware Attacks Using Web Search Logs
Chetan Bansal, Pantazis Deligiannis, Chandra Sekhar Maddila, Nikitha Rao
22:00 – 24:00 | Session 3A – Bias and Fairness
Operationalizing the Legal Principle of Data Minimization for Personalization
Asia J. Biega, Peter Potash, Hal Daumé III, Fernando Diaz, Michèle Finck
Tuesday, July 28
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 4C – Neural Networks and Embedding
Knowledge Enhanced Personalized Search
Shuqi Lu, Zhicheng Dou, Chenyan Xiong, Xiaojie Wang, Ji-Rong Wen
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 4C – Neural Networks and Embedding
An Eye Tracking Study of Web Search by People with and without Dyslexia
Srishti Palani, Adam Fourney, Shane Williams, Kevin Larson, Irina Spiridonova, Meredith Ringel Morris
20:00 – 22:00 | TOIS Paper Session II
Investigating Searchers’ Mental Models to Inform Search Explanations
Paul Thomas, Bodo Billerbeck, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White
20:00 – 22:00 | Short Paper Session II
CAsT-19: A Dataset for Research on Conversational Information Seeking
Jeffrey Dalton, Chenyan Xiong, Vaibhav Kumar, Jamie Callan
DC-BERT: Decoupling Question and Document for Efficient Contextual Encoding
Ping Nie, Yuyu Zhang, Xiubo Geng, Ramamurthy Arun, Le Song, Daxin Jiang
Few-Shot Generative Conversational Query Rewriting
Shi Yu, Jiahua Liu, Jingqin Yang, Chenyan Xiong, Paul Bennett, Jianfeng Gao, Zhiyuan Liu
Improving Document-Level Text Retrieval using Local Attention in the Transformer-Kernel Pooling Model
Sebastian Hofstätter, Hamed Zamani, Bhaskar Mitra, Nick Craswell, Allan Hanbury
Improving Matching Models with Hierarchical Contextualized Representations for Multi-turn Response Selection
Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan
On the Reliability of Test Collections to Evaluating Systems of Different Types
Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Daniel Campos
20:00 – 22:00 | Demo Paper Session II
Macaw: An Extensible Conversational Information Seeking Platform
Hamed Zamani, Nick Craswell
22:00 – 24:00 | Session 6A – Neural Collaborative Filtering 1
The Impact of More Transparent Interfaces on Behavior in Personalized Recommendation
Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, Saleema Amershi, Peter Bailey, Thorsten Joachims
22:00 – 24:00 | Session 6B – Domain Specific Applications 2
Learning with Weak Supervision for Email Intent Detection
Kai Shu, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Guoqing Zheng, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Milad Shokouhi, Susan Dumais
Wednesday, July 29
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 7A – Conversation and Interactive IR
Neural Representation Learning for Clarification in Conversational Search
Helia Hashemi, Hamed Zamani, Bruce Croft
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 7A – Conversation and Interactive IR
What If Bots Feel Moods? Towards Controllable Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems with Emotion-Aware Transition Networks
Lisong Qiu, Ying Wai Shiu, Pingping Lin, Ruihua Song, Yue Liu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 7A – Conversation and Interactive IR
Expressions of Style in Information Seeking Conversation with an Agent
Paul Thomas, Daniel Mcduff, Mary Czerwinski, Nick Craswell
9:40 – 11:40 | Session 7A – Conversation and Interactive IR
Analyzing and Learning from User Interactions for Search Clarification
Hamed Zamani, Bhaskar Mitra, Everest Chen, Gord Lueck, Fernando Diaz, Paul Bennett, Nick Craswell, Susan Dumais
16:40 – 17:00 | Session 2B – User Behavior and Experience
Octopus: Comprehensive and Elastic User Representation for the Generation of Recommendation Candidates
Zheng Liu, Junhan Yang, Jianxun Lian, Defu Lian, Xing Xie