SCAI 2025
IJCAI 2025, August 18, Montreal, Canada
The Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence workshop (SCAI) is a discussion platform on Conversational AI for intelligent information access, bringing together researchers and practitioners across natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning and human-computer interaction fields. SCAI is an established venue with a long-standing tradition of building bridges and integrating expertise from diverse research communities.
Program
| 09:00 | Welcome |
| 09:10 | LLMs in Retrieval – Mapping Potential and Pitfalls Vaibhav Adlakha (McGill University/Mila - Quebec AI Institute) |
| 09:50 | Question Answering over Structured Data and Unstructured Text Philipp Christmann (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | TEARS: Textual Representations for Scrutable Recommendations Laurent Charlin (HEC Montreal) |
| 11:45 | Subjective Debate as Conversational Search: Simulating Sales Negotiations Grounded in Preferences Vahid Sadiri Javadi (University of Bonn) |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break (not provided by IJCAI) |
| 14:00 | Evaluation challenges in the LLM era Patricia Schmidtova (Charles University) |
| 14:45 | Enhancing model transparency: Effects of DK Integration for conversational XAI Isabel Feustel (Ulm University) |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Discussion groups |
| 17:30 | Closing |
Organisers
- Maik Fröbe, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Ondrej Dusek, Charles University
- Svitlana Vakulenko, Vienna University of Economics and Business