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*Apologies for cross-postingsCALL FOR PAPERSThe Second International
Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval
(CAIR'18)https://sites.google.com/view/cair-ws/cair-2018
<https://sites.google.com/view/cair-ws/cair-2018>at SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, USA, July 12, 2018IMPORTANT DATES - Early-Bird Submission Due:
April 12, 2018- Regular Submission Due: May 4, 2018- Early-Bird
Notification: May 4, 2018- SIGIR 2018 Early-Bird Registration Due: May 5,
2018- Regular Notification: May 25, 2018- Workshop: July 12,
2018INTRODUCTIONRecent advances in commercial conversational services that
allow naturally spoken and typed interaction, particularly for
well-formulated questions and commands, have increased the need for more
human-centric interactions in information retrieval.  The Second
International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information
Retrieval (CAIR'18) will again bring together academic and industrial
researchers to create a forum for research on conversational approaches to
search. A specific focus will be on techniques that support complex and
multi-turn user-machine dialogues for information access and retrieval, and
multi-model interfaces for interacting with such systems. We invite
submissions addressing all modalities of conversation, including
speech-based, text-based, and multimodal interaction. We also welcome
studies of human-human interaction (e.g., collaborative search) that can
inform the design of conversational search applications, and work on
evaluation of conversational approaches.SCOPEThe workshop welcomes a broad
range of studies that can contribute to the development of conversational
approaches to IR. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):Query
understanding and search process management - Processing verbose natural
language queries- Processing noisy ASR queries- Query intent
disambiguation, clarification, confirmation- Query suggestion- Relevance
feedback in conversational search- Voice-based search engine operations-
Dialogue schema for conversational searchSearch result description
(presentation) - Audio-based search result presentation and summarization-
Conversational navigation of search results- Knowledge graph presentation
in conversational search- Advertisements in audio-based search result
presentationRanking algorithms - Ad-hoc spoken search- Spoken search in
sessionEvaluation - Building test collections for conversational search-
Development of new metrics to measure effectiveness, engagement,
satisfaction of conversational searchApplications - Intelligent personal
assistance- Intelligent home assistance using voice / speech oriented
devices- Proactive search/Recommendation- Collaborative search- Hands free
search (e.g., in car, kitchen)- Search for visually impaired users- Search
for low literacy users- Integration with existing technologiesHOW TO SUBMIT
- Long paper:  6 pages max.- Short paper: 4 pages max.- Format:
http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
<http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>- Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cair18
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cair18>Accepted full papers will
be granted an optional +2 pages to address comments from the reviewers and
will have an oral presentation at the workshop. Short papers can include
position papers and panel discussion proposals, in addition to the latest
findings of your work. Accepted short papers will have a poster
presentation at the workshop.All submissions will be reviewed by the PC
committee chaired by the workshoporganizers. Submission must include the
name and affiliations of authors.We are having two rounds of submissions.
The Early Bird Submission deadline (April 12, 2018) is for authors who wish
to take advantage of the SIGIR 2018 Early Bird registration rate.
Acceptance notifications will one day prior to the Early Bird registration
expiration date (May 4, 2018).Please note that papers that are not accepted
during the Early Bird submission round cannot be resubmitted to the Regular
submission round.IMPORTANT DATES - Early-Bird Submission Due: April 12,
2018- Regular Submission Due: May 4, 2018- Early-Bird Notification: May 4,
2018- SIGIR 2018 Early-Bird Registration Due: May 5, 2018- Regular
Notification: May 25, 2018- Workshop: July 12, 2018PC MEMBERS -
TBAORGANIZERS - Jaime Arguello (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill)- Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)- Julia Kiseleva (University of
Amsterdam)- Filip Radlinski (Google)- Damiano Spina (RMIT
University)STEERING COMMITTEE - Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University)-
Fernando Diaz (Spotify)- Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Google)- Mark Sanderson (RMIT
University)- Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft)       and organisersCONTACTPlease
contact the workshop organisers via cair-organisers at googlegroups dot com
for any enquiries.*

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