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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.