Sim.API: A Middleware to Simplify the Use of User Simulators for Shared Tasks in Conversational Search.

@inproceedings{gohsen-2026-simapi, author = {Marcel Gohsen and Kyle Williams and Zahra Abbasiantaeb and Nailia Mirzakhmedova and Johannes Kiesel and Seyyed Hadi Hashemi and Kyle Williams and Zahra Abbasiantaeb and Imed Zitouni and Jeffrey Dalton and Johannes Kiesel and Seyyed Hadi Hashemi and Simon Lupart and Imed Zitouni and Jeffrey Dalton and Benno Stein and Mohammad Aliannejadi}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Sim.API: A Middleware to Simplify the Use of User Simulators for Shared Tasks in Conversational Search}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3190--3197}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808599}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808599} }