Nesta segunda-feira, 13, às 15 horas, na sala 2016 do Instituto de Ciências Extas (ICEx) da UFMG, o professor titular de Ciência da Computação no Departamento de Engenharia da Informação da Universidade de Pádua, Itália, realizará o tutorial: “Introduction to Conversational Information Access”. O evento é gratuito e não há necessidade de inscrição prévia. Leia abaixo, em inglês, a descrição do tutorial e o currículo do professor:
Abstract:
Conversational systems are increasing their popularity since they allow users to interact in a simple and natural way. Information Retrieval (IR) and Recommender Systems (RS) represents two categories of systems that strongly rely on the interaction with the user. For these reasons, recently many researches increased their effort towards the development Conversational Information Retrieval (CIR) and Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS). Such systems, in fact, allow to increase the ease of use from the user perspective and also to improve the quality of the results. The aim of this tutorial is to show the best and most frequently used approaches/paradigms to build CIR and CRS systems and to understand how these can be evaluated.
Bio: Nicola Ferro is full professor in computer science at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy. He is head of the Intelligent Interactive Information Access (IIIA) hub and of the Information Management Systems (IMS) research group. His research interests include information retrieval, its experimental evaluation, multilingual information access and digital libraries. He is the coordinator of the CLEF evaluation initiative, which involves more than 200 research groups world-wide in large-scale IR evaluation activities. He has published more than 400 papers on information retrieval, digital libraries, and their evaluation. He was inducted to Class 2023 of the SIGIR Academy and he was awarded the Tony Kent Strix Award in 2024 (an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval).
