Sim4IA-Bench: A User Simulation Benchmark Suite for Next Query and Utterance Prediction.

@inproceedings{kruff-2026-sim4iabench, author = {Andreas Konstantin Kruff and Christin Katharina Kreutz and Timo Breuer and Philipp Schaer and Krisztian Balog}, editor = {Ricardo Campos and Adam Jatowt and Yanyan Lan and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Christine Bauer and Sean MacAvaney and Avishek Anand and Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne and Nan Bai and Masoud Mansoury}, title = {{Sim4IA-Bench: A User Simulation Benchmark Suite for Next Query and Utterance Prediction}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part IV}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16486}, pages = {594--609}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21321-1_61}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21321-1_61} }