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Users often fail to formulate their complex information needs in a single query. As a consequence, they may need to scan multiple result pages or reformulate their queries, which may be a frustrating experience. Alternatively, systems can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Hamed Zamani , Fabio Crestani , W. Bruce Croft

Conversational search is based on a user-system cooperation with the objective to solve an information-seeking task. In this report, we discuss the implication of such cooperation with the learning perspective from both user and system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Sharon Oviatt , Laure Soulier

Large-scale AI models such as GPT-4 have accelerated the deployment of artificial intelligence across critical domains including law, healthcare, and finance, raising urgent questions about trust and transparency. This study investigates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Allen Daniel Sunny

Recent advances in natural language processing and deep learning have accelerated the development of digital assistants. In conversational commerce, these assistants help customers find suitable products in online shops through natural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Kevin Schott , Andrea Papenmeier , Daniel Hienert , Dagmar Kern

Despite recent progress on conversational systems, they still do not perform smoothly and coherently when faced with ambiguous requests. When questions are unclear, conversational systems should have the ability to ask clarifying questions,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Negar Arabzadeh , Mahsa Seifikar , Charles L. A. Clarke

Recommender systems play a fundamental role in web applications in filtering massive information and matching user interests. While many efforts have been devoted to developing more effective models in various scenarios, the exploration on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Ninghao Liu , Yong Ge , Li Li , Xia Hu , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi

Conversational interfaces are currently on the rise: more and more applications rely on a chat-like interaction pattern to increase their acceptability and to improve user experience. Also in the area of questionnaire design and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Irene Celino , Gloria Re Calegari

Product retrieval systems have served as the main entry for customers to discover and purchase products online. With increasing concerns on the transparency and accountability of AI systems, studies on explainable information retrieval has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Qingyao Ai , Lakshmi Narayanan Ramasamy

Quality aspects such as ethics, fairness, and transparency have been proven to be essential for trustworthy software systems. Explainability has been identified not only as a means to achieve all these three aspects in systems, but also as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Larissa Chazette , Jil Klünder , Merve Balci , Kurt Schneider

Context and Motivation: Due to their increasing complexity, everyday software systems are becoming increasingly opaque for users. A frequently adopted method to address this difficulty is explainability, which aims to make systems more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Martin Obaidi , Jannik Fischbach , Marc Herrmann , Hannah Deters , Jakob Droste , Jil Klünder , Kurt Schneider

Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) provides an efficient and convenient gateway to information access. However, it can cause overreliance when users blindly trust AI and accept its answers without fact-checking. Information search…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mert Yazan , Frederik Bungaran Ishak Situmeang , Suzan Verberne

Explainable recommendation systems leverage transparent reasoning to foster user trust and improve decision-making processes. Current approaches typically decouple recommendation generation from explanation creation, violating causal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Guanrong Li , Haolin Yang , Xinyu Liu , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

Conversational search enables multi-turn interactions between users and systems to fulfill users' complex information needs. During this interaction, the system should understand the users' search intent within the conversational context…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Fengran Mo , Chuan Meng , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Jian-Yun Nie

Algorithmic transparency entails exposing system properties to various stakeholders for purposes that include understanding, improving, and contesting predictions. Until now, most research into algorithmic transparency has predominantly…

Explainable artificial intelligence techniques are developed at breakneck speed, but suitable evaluation approaches lag behind. With explainers becoming increasingly complex and a lack of consensus on how to assess their utility, it is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Edward Small , Yueqing Xuan , Danula Hettiachchi , Kacper Sokol

Most online information sources are text-based and in Western Languages like English. However, many new and first time users of the Internet are in contexts with low English proficiency and are unable to access vital information online.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Anurag Aribandi , Divyanshu Agrawal , Dipanjan Chakraborty

Transparency is an essential requirement of machine learning based decision making systems that are deployed in real world. Often, transparency of a given system is achieved by providing explanations of the behavior and predictions of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 André Artelt , Barbara Hammer

With the rise of voice assistants and an increase in mobile search usage, natural language has become an important query language. So far, most of the current systems are not able to process these queries because of the vagueness and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Andrea Papenmeier , Alfred Sliwa , Dagmar Kern , Daniel Hienert , Ahmet Aker , Norbert Fuhr

The rise of machine learning has brought closer scrutiny to intelligent systems, leading to calls for greater transparency and explainable algorithms. We explore the effects of transparency on user perceptions of a working intelligent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Aaron Springer , Steve Whittaker

Explainability has become a crucial non-functional requirement to enhance transparency, build user trust, and ensure regulatory compliance. However, translating explanation needs expressed in user feedback into structured requirements and…