Report on supporting and understanding of conversational dialogues workshop (SUD 2021) at WSDM 2021
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Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones, Procheta Sen, Manisha Verma, Dipasree PalAuthors Info & Claims
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This report describes the workshop on Supporting and Understanding of (multi-party) conversational Dialogues (SUD) organized as a part of the Web Search and Data Mining conference (WSDM) 2021. The aim of SUD workshop was to encourage researchers to investigate automated methods to analyze and understand conversations. We also discuss the release of a dataset that would be useful in IR research on conversations. The dataset was constructed to support the data challenge in SUD workshop and its precursor event - the Retrieval from Conversational Dialogues (RCD) track at the Forum of Information Retrieval and Evaluation (FIRE) 2020.
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