Publications

2024

Fischer, S., Gemmell, C., Tecklenburg, N., Mackie, I., Rossetto, F. and Dalton, J., 2024 GRILLBot In Practice: Lessons and Tradeoffs Deploying Large Language Models for Adaptable Conversational Task Assistants in Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ‘24).
Chatterjee, S., Mackie, I., & Dalton, J., 2024 *DREQ: Document Re-Ranking Using Entity-based Query Understanding in Proceedings of the The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ‘24).
Joko, H., Chatterjee, S., Ramsay, A., Vries, A.P., Dalton, J., & Hasibi, F., 2024 Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’24).
Aliannejadi, M., Abbasiantaeb, Z., Chatterjee, S., Dalton, J., & Azzopardi, L., 2024 TREC iKAT 2023: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’24).
Mackie, I., Chatterjee, S., MacAvaney, S. and Dalton, J., 2024 Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval in Proceedings of KEIR@ECIR 2024: THE FIRST WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE-ENHANCED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL at ECIR’24
Fischer, S., Rossetto, F., Gemmell, C., Ramsay, A., Mackie, I., Zubel, P., Tecklenburg, N. and Dalton, J., 2024 Open Assistant Toolkit – version 2 ArXiv, abs/2403.00586.

2023

Gemmell, C. and Dalton, J., 2023 ToolWriter: Question Specific Tool Synthesis for Tabular Data in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023)
Rossetto, F., Dalton, J. and Murray-Smith, R., 2023 Generating Multimodal Augmentations with LLMs from Song Metadata for Music Information Retrieval in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Large Generative Models Meet Multimodal Applications.
Dalla Serra, F., Wang, C., Deligianni, F., Dalton, J., O’Neil, A., 2023 Finding-aware anatomical tokens for chest X-ray automated reporting in International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging.
Mackie, I., Chatterjee, S., and Dalton, J., 2023. Generative Relevance Feedback with Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’23).
Owoicho, P., Sekulić, I., Aliannejadi, M., Dalton, J., and Crestani, F., 2023. Exploiting Simulated User Feedback for Conversational Search: Ranking, Rewriting, and Beyond. In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’23).
Gemmell, C., and Dalton, J., 2022. Generate, Transform, Answer: Question Specific Tool Synthesis for Tabular Data. Arxiv (Preprint).

2022

Owoicho, P., Dalton, J., Aliannejadi, M., Azzopardi, L., Trippas, J., Vakulenko, S., 2022. TREC CAsT 2022: Going Beyond User Ask and System Retrieve with Initiative and Response Generation. Proceedings of the NIST Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2022). 2022.
Soare, E., Mackie, I., and Dalton, J., 2022. DocuT5: Seq2seq SQL Generation with Table Documentation. Arxiv (Preprint)..
Mackie, I., and Dalton, J., 2022. Query-Specific Knowledge Graphs for Complex Finance Topics. AKBC 2022 Workshop, Knowledge Graphs in Finance and Economics .
Fischer, S., Gemmell, C., Mackie, I., and Dalton, J., 2022. VILT: Video Instructions Linking for Complex Tasks. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Retrieval.
Gemmell, C., Rossetto, F., Mackie, I., Owoicho, P., Fischer, S., and Dalton, J., 2022. GRILLBot: A multi-modal conversational agent for complex real-world tasks. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.
Gemmell, C., Fischer, S., Mackie, I., Owoicho, P., Rossetto, F. and Dalton, J., 2022. GRILLBot: A flexible conversational agent for solving complex real-world tasks Alexa Taskbot Challenge. Alexa Prize Proceedings.
Mackie, I., Owoicho, P., Gemmell, C., Fischer, S., MacAvaney, S. and Dalton, J., 2022. CODEC: Complex Document and Entity Collection. In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’22), July 11–15, 2022, Madrid, Spain.
Speggiorin, A., Dalton, J. and Leuski, A. 2022. TaskMAD: A Platform for Multimodal Task-Centric Knowledge-Grounded Conversational Experimentation. In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’22), July 11–15, 2022, Madrid, Spain.

2021

Naseri, S., Dalton, J., Yates, A. and Allan, J., 2021, March. Ceqe: Contextualized embeddings for query expansion. In European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp. 467-482). Springer, Cham.
Mackie, I., Dalton, J. and Yates, A., 2021. How Deep is your Learning: the DL-HARD Annotated Deep Learning Dataset. In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), July 11–15, 2021, Virtual Event, Canada.

2020

Dalton, J., Xiong, C. and Callan, J. Overview of the TREC 2020 Conversational Assistance Track, TREC 2020 Proceedings.
Aliannejadi, M., Kiseleva, J., Chuklin, A., Dalton, J., & Burtsev, M. (2020). ConvAI3: Generating Clarifying Questions for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (ClariQ). ArXiv, abs/2009.11352.
Jones, Y., Deligianni, F. and Dalton, J. Improving ECG Classification Interpretability Using Saliency Maps. In: 20th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, Online Only, 26-28 Oct 2020 (Best Paper Award)
Czyzewski, A., Dalton, J. and Leuski, A. Agent Dialogue: A Platform for Conversational Information Seeking Experimentation. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi’an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2121-2124.
Dalton, J. , Xiong, C., Kumar, V. and Callan, J. CAsT-19: A Dataset for Research on Conversational Information Seeking. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi’an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 1985-1988.
Gemmell, C., Dalton, J. and Rossetto, F. Relevance Transformer: Generating Concise Code Snippets with Relevance Feedback. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi’an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2005-2008.
Manotumruksa, J., Dalton, J. , Meij, E. and Yilmaz, E. CrossBERT: a Triplet Neural Architecture for Ranking Entity Properties. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi’an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2049-2052.
Dietz, L. and Dalton, J. Humans optional? Automatic large-scale test collections for entity, passage, and entity-passage retrieval. Datenbank-Spektrum, 20, pp. 17-28. (doi: 10.1007/s13222-020-00334-y)

2019

Dalton, J., Naseri, S., Dietz, L., & Allan, J. (2019). Local and Global Query Expansion for Hierarchical Complex Topics. ECIR.