Zahra Abbasiantaeb

Shared tasks offer excellent opportunities for advancing scientific fields and standardizing evaluation methods through collaborative community efforts. With the recent paradigm shift in information retrieval from keyword-based to conversational search, shared tasks can serve as promising sources...

Conversational search agents, especially with the advent of large language models, have developed into useful tools to satisfy complex information needs of their users. Former research has shown that personalization (i.e., adaptation of agent responses to the preferences and traits of the user) c...

Deep research agents have emerged as LLM-based systems designed to perform multi-step information seeking and reasoning over large, open-domain sources to answer complex questions by synthesizing information from multiple information sources. Given the complexity of the task and despite various r...