Conversational Search: Foundations, Large Language Models, and Agents.

@inproceedings{meng-2026-conversational, author = {Chuan Meng and Fengran Mo and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Jeff Dalton and Jian-Yun Nie}, 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 = {{Conversational Search: Foundations, Large Language Models, and Agents}}, 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 = {11--18}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21321-1_2}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21321-1_2} }