Do Simulated Users Need to Remember? Analyzing the Impact of Memory Models in Conversational Search Evaluation.

@inproceedings{mirzakhmedova-2026-simulated, author = {Nailia Mirzakhmedova and Marcel Gohsen and Johannes Kiesel and Matthias Hagen and Benno Stein}, 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 = {{Do Simulated Users Need to Remember? Analyzing the Impact of Memory Models in Conversational Search Evaluation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {1359--1370}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809556}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809556} }