Publications

2022

• 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. 2022.

• 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.