TY - GEN
T1 - SCSS-Lie
T2 - 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2019
AU - Wang, Junyan
AU - Zhang, Peng
AU - Zhang, Cheng
AU - Song, Dawei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/7/18
Y1 - 2019/7/18
N2 - Synchronous collaborative search systems (SCSS) refer to systems which support two or more users with similar information need to search together simultaneously. Generally, SCSS provide a social engine to enable users to communicate. However, when the number of users in the social engine is insufficient to collaborate on the search task, the social engine will encounter the cold start problem and can not perform collaborative search well. In this paper, we present a novel Synchronous Collaborative Search System with a Live Interactive Engine (SCSS-LIE). SCSS-LIE proposes to apply a ring topology to add an intelligent auxiliary robot, Infobot, into the social engine to support real-time interaction between users and the search engine to address the cold start problem of the social engine. The reading comprehension model BiDAF (Bi-Directional Attention Flow) is employed in the Infobot in the process of interacting with the search engine to obtain answers to facilitate the acquisition of information. SCSS-LIE can not only allow users with similar information need to be grouped into one chat channel to communicate, but also enable them to conduct real-time interaction with the search engine to improve search efficiency.
AB - Synchronous collaborative search systems (SCSS) refer to systems which support two or more users with similar information need to search together simultaneously. Generally, SCSS provide a social engine to enable users to communicate. However, when the number of users in the social engine is insufficient to collaborate on the search task, the social engine will encounter the cold start problem and can not perform collaborative search well. In this paper, we present a novel Synchronous Collaborative Search System with a Live Interactive Engine (SCSS-LIE). SCSS-LIE proposes to apply a ring topology to add an intelligent auxiliary robot, Infobot, into the social engine to support real-time interaction between users and the search engine to address the cold start problem of the social engine. The reading comprehension model BiDAF (Bi-Directional Attention Flow) is employed in the Infobot in the process of interacting with the search engine to obtain answers to facilitate the acquisition of information. SCSS-LIE can not only allow users with similar information need to be grouped into one chat channel to communicate, but also enable them to conduct real-time interaction with the search engine to improve search efficiency.
KW - Infobot
KW - Interactive Engine
KW - Machine Reading Comprehension
KW - Social Engine
KW - Synchronous Collaborative Search Systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073797913&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3331184.3331407
DO - 10.1145/3331184.3331407
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85073797913
T3 - SIGIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
SP - 1309
EP - 1312
BT - SIGIR 2019 - Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 21 July 2019 through 25 July 2019
ER -