Nolwenn Bernard

2026

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Validating Search Query Simulations: A Taxonomy of Measures.

Andreas Konstantin Kruff|Nolwenn Bernard|Philipp Schaer

Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part I

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UserSimCRS v2: Simulation-Based Evaluation for Conversational Recommender Systems.

Nolwenn Bernard|Krisztian Balog

Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part IV

2025

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Report on the Second Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025) at SIGIR 2025.

Philipp Schaer|Christin Katharina Kreutz|Krisztian Balog|Timo Breuer|Andreas Kruff|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Christine Bauer|Nolwenn Bernard|Nicola Ferro|Marcel Gohsen|Nurul Lubis|Saber Zerhoudi

SIGIR Forum 2025 Volume 59 Issue 2

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Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation.

Krisztian Balog|Nolwenn Bernard|Saber Zerhoudi|ChengXiang Zhai

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

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CRS Arena: Crowdsourced Benchmarking of Conversational Recommender Systems.

Nolwenn Bernard|Hideaki Joko|Faegheh Hasibi|Krisztian Balog

Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2025, Hannover, Germany, March 10-14, 2025

2024

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Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access.

Nolwenn Bernard|Krisztian Balog

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2024, Washington, DC, USA, 13 July 2024

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Leveraging User Simulation to Develop and Evaluate Conversational Information Access Agents.

Nolwenn Bernard

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2024, Merida, Mexico, March 4-8, 2024

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IAI MovieBot 2.0: An Enhanced Research Platform with Trainable Neural Components and Transparent User Modeling.

Nolwenn Bernard|Ivica Kostric|Krisztian Balog

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2024, Merida, Mexico, March 4-8, 2024

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PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management.

Nolwenn Bernard|Ivica Kostric|Weronika Lajewska|Krisztian Balog|Petra Galuscáková|Vinay Setty|Martin G. Skjæveland

Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, WWW 2024, Singapore, Singapore, May 13-17, 2024

2023

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MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce.

Nolwenn Bernard|Krisztian Balog

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

2022

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The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistance Track.

Weronika Lajewska|Nolwenn Bernard|Ivica Kostric|Ivan Sekulic|Krisztian Balog

Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2022, online, November 15-19, 2022