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
| Welcome Svitlana Vakulenko (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business) [slides] |
| LLMs in Retrieval – Mapping Potential and Pitfalls Vaibhav Adlakha (McGill University/Mila - Quebec AI Institute) [slides] |
| Question Answering over Structured Data and Unstructured Text Philipp Christmann (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) [slides] |
| TEARS: Textual Representations for Scrutable Recommendations Laurent Charlin (HEC Montreal) [slides] |
| Subjective Debate as Conversational Search: Simulating Sales Negotiations Grounded in Preferences Vahid Sadiri Javadi (University of Bonn) [slides] |
| Evaluation challenges in the LLM era Patricia Schmidtova (Charles University) [slides] |
| Enhancing model transparency: Effects of DK Integration for conversational XAI Isabel Feustel (Ulm University) [slides] |
Organisers
- Patricia Schmidtova, Charles University
- Maik Fröbe, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Ondrej Dusek, Charles University
- Svitlana Vakulenko, Vienna University of Economics and Business