Projects

Damiano Spina

Prosody Modifications for Speech-Only Question Answering

Aleksandr Chuklin
Aliaksei Severyn
Johanne R. Trippas
Enrique Alfonseca
Hanna Silen
Damiano Spina

CAIR: Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval

*ACCEPTING CONTRIBUTIONS* CHIIR’21 Future Conversations Workshop (FT’21)
CHIIR’20 3rd International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Informational Retrieval (CAIR’20)
SIGIR’18 2nd International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Informational Retrieval (CAIR’18)
SIGDIAL 2018 Special Session on Conversational Approaches to Information Search, Retrieval, and Presentation
SIGIR’17 1st International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Informational Retrieval (CAIR’17)

Spoken Conversational Search Dataset

Johanne R. Trippas
Damiano Spina
Lawrence Cavedon
Mark Sanderson

Dataset created by observing participants addressing information needs of different complexity in an acoustic setting. The study is described in this paper.

CHIIR’17

Podcast Search Audio Summaries

Damiano Spina
Johanne R. Trippas
Lawrence Cavedon
Mark Sanderson

Dataset used in our user preference study on podcast search summaries.The study is described in this paper.

JASIST, 2017

SummaryRank

Ruey-Cheng Chen
Damiano Spina
Liu Yang
Qingyao Ai

SummaryRank is a python package dedicated to supporting ranking experiments over sentence/summary data.

RMIT CIDDA on Github

Github repositories maintained by members of the ISAR Research Group at RMIT.

Active Learning for Entity Filtering in Microblog Streams

Proc. of SIGIR ’14: 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015