• Apr 14, 2026 — Two paper accepted to ACL 2026!
• Apr 2, 2026 — Three papers accepted to SIGIR 2026!
• Mar 10, 2026 — We will be organising the 2nd EReL@MIR Workshop on Efficient Representation Learning for Multimodal Information Retrieval workshop at ACM Multimedia 2026 (ACM MM) conference.
• Jan 26, 2026 — Paper “Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation” accepted to ICLR 2026.
• Dec 20, 2025 — Received funding from the Going Global Partnerships UK-Spain Springboard Programme to support collaboration with the information retrieval lab at University of A Coruña.
• Nov 1, 2025 — Papers “Interplay: Training Independent Simulators for Reference-Free Conversational Recommendation” and “eRisk 2026” accepted to ECIR 2026.
• Oct 11, 2025 — Paper “Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation” received the Best Paper Award at the COLM XLLM-Reason-Plan Workshop 2025! 🏆
• Jul 1, 2025 — Two papers accepted to CIKM 2025: “TalkDep: Clinically Grounded LLM Personas for Depression Screening”, and “+VeriRel: Verification Feedback to Enhance Document Retrieval”. We are also organising the workshop “ProActLLM: Proactive Conversational Information Seeking”
• Jan 25, 2025 — Paper “SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval” accepted to The Web Conference (WWW) 2025.
• Jan 20, 2025 — Paper “Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Conversational Systems” accepted to NAACL 2025.
• Jan 20, 2024 — Paper “Clarifying the Path to User Satisfaction: An Investigation into Clarification Usefulness” accepted to EACL 2024 (Findings).
• Jan 15, 2024 — Paper “Simulated Task Oriented Dialogues for Developing Versatile Conversational Agents” accepted to ECIR 2024.
• Dec 1, 2023 — Paper “A Social-aware Gaussian Pre-trained Model for Effective Cold-start Recommendation” accepted to the journal of Information Processing & Management (IP&M).
• Oct 7, 2023 — Paper “Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems via Bias Analysis and Language-Model-Enhanced Data Augmentation” accepted to EMNLP 2023 (Findings).
• Jan 7, 2023 — Co-first authored paper “A Survey on Asking Clarification Questions Datasets in Conversational Systems” accepted to ACL 2023 (main).
• Nov 1, 2022 — Received Google research workshop grant on Action, Task and User Journey ($20,000) as Co-recipient with Prof. Emine Yilmaz.
• Oct 1, 2022 — Co-first authored paper “Task2KB: A Public Task-Oriented Knowledge Base” accepted to AAAI 2023.