From Search to Ask to Act: The Evolution of Information Access in the Age of Large Models and Agents.

@inproceedings{wen-2026-search, author = {Ji-Rong Wen}, 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 = {{From Search to Ask to Act: The Evolution of Information Access in the Age of Large Models and Agents}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809404}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809404} }