Svitlana Vakulenko

2026

CHARISMA: Character-Based Interaction Simulation with Multi-LLM Agents Toward Computational Social Psychology.

Vahid Sadiri Javadi|Fryderyk Róg|Aksa Aksa|Johanne R. Trippas|Svitlana Vakulenko|Lucie Flek

Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2026, Seattle, WA, USA, March 22-26, 2026

2025

Report on the 9th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2025) at IJCAI 2025.

Svitlana Vakulenko|Philipp Christmann|Isabel Feustel|Vaibhav Adlakha|Vahid Sadiri Javadi|Patrícia Schmidtová

SIGIR Forum 2025 Volume 59 Issue 2

2023

Weakly Supervised Turn-level Engagingness Evaluator for Dialogues.

Shaojie Jiang|Svitlana Vakulenko|Maarten de Rijke

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2023, Austin, TX, USA, March 19-23, 2023

Scene-Centric vs. Object-Centric Image-Text Cross-Modal Retrieval: A Reproducibility Study.

Mariya Hendriksen|Svitlana Vakulenko|Ernst Kuiper|Maarten de Rijke

Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part III

2022

On the Impact of Speech Recognition Errors in Passage Retrieval for Spoken Question Answering.

Georgios Sidiropoulos|Svitlana Vakulenko|Evangelos Kanoulas

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17-21, 2022

Extending CLIP for Category-to-Image Retrieval in E-Commerce.

Mariya Hendriksen|Maurits J. R. Bleeker|Svitlana Vakulenko|Nanne van Noord|Ernst Kuiper|Maarten de Rijke

Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part I

The Seventh Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI'22).

Till Plumbaum|Gustavo Penha|Till Plumbaum|Gustavo Penha|Svitlana Vakulenko|Sahin Albayrak|Svitlana Vakulenko|Ondrej Dusek|Sahin Albayrak|Leigh Clark|Vaishali Pal|Vaibhav Adlakha

SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

TREC CAsT 2022: Going Beyond User Ask and System Retrieve with Initiative and Response Generation.

Paul Owoicho|Jeff Dalton|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Leif Azzopardi|Johanne R. Trippas|Svitlana Vakulenko

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

2021

Report on the 6th workshop on search-oriented conversational AI (SCAI 2021).

Svitlana Vakulenko|Ondrej Dusek|Leigh Clark

SIGIR Forum 2021 Volume 55 Issue 2

A Large-scale Analysis of Mixed Initiative in Information-Seeking Dialogues for Conversational Search.

Svitlana Vakulenko|Evangelos Kanoulas|Maarten de Rijke

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2021 Volume 39 Issue 4

VerbCL: A Dataset of Verbatim Quotes for Highlight Extraction in Case Law.

Julien Rossi|Svitlana Vakulenko|Evangelos Kanoulas

CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

A Comparison of Question Rewriting Methods for Conversational Passage Retrieval.

Svitlana Vakulenko|Nikos Voskarides|Zhucheng Tu|Shayne Longpre

Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part II

Question Rewriting for Conversational Question Answering.

Svitlana Vakulenko|Shayne Longpre|Zhucheng Tu|Raviteja Anantha

WSDM '21, The Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event, Israel, March 8-12, 2021

2020

Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers: UvA.ILPS & REL at CLEF HIPE 2020.

Vera Provatorova|Svitlana Vakulenko|Evangelos Kanoulas|Koen Dercksen|Johannes M. van Hulst

Working Notes of CLEF 2020 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22-25, 2020.

An Analysis of Mixed Initiative and Collaboration in Information-Seeking Dialogues.

Svitlana Vakulenko|Evangelos Kanoulas|Maarten de Rijke

Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual Event, China, July 25-30, 2020

Leveraging Query Resolution and Reading Comprehension for Conversational Passage Retrieval.

Svitlana Vakulenko|Nikos Voskarides|Zhucheng Tu|Shayne Longpre

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2020, Virtual Event [Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA], November 16-20, 2020.

2019

Message Passing for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs.

Svitlana Vakulenko|Javier David Fernandez Garcia|Axel Polleres|Maarten de Rijke|Michael Cochez

Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019.

QRFA: A Data-Driven Model of Information-Seeking Dialogues.

Svitlana Vakulenko|Kate Revoredo|Claudio Di Ciccio|Maarten de Rijke

Advances in Information Retrieval - 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, April 14-18, 2019, Proceedings, Part I