Exploring User Simulators in Conversational Search: A Comparison Between LLMs and Humans.

Lili Lu|Fabio Crestani


Anthology ID:DBLP:conf/ecir/LuC26
Volume:Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II
Year:2026
Venue:European Conference on Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR)
Publisher:Springer
Pages:38-54
URL:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_3
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_3
DBLP:conf/ecir/LuC26
BibTeX:
@inproceedings{lu-2026-exploring, author = {Lili Lu and Fabio Crestani}, 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 = {{Exploring User Simulators in Conversational Search: A Comparison Between LLMs and Humans}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16484}, pages = {38--54}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_3}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_3} }