Johanne Trippas

The PhD Journey: Reaching Out and Lending a Hand

Johanne Trippas, David Maxwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’21)

Undertaking a PhD is a challenging yet fulfilling experience. PhD candidates become deeply involved in developing a myriad of skil..

CC-News-En: A Large English News Corpus

Joel Mackenzie, Rodger Benham, Matthias Petri, Johanne R Trippas, J Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management

We describe a static, open-access news corpus using data from the Common Crawl Foundation, who provide free, publicly available we..

A Mixed-Method Analysis of Text and Audio Search Interfaces with Varying Task Complexity

A Vtyurina, CLA Clarke, E Law, JR Trippas, H Bota

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  ICTIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval

Voice-based assistants have become a popular tool for conducting web search, particularly for factoid question answering. However,..

Intelligent task recognition: Towards enabling productivity assistance in daily life

J Liono, MS Rahaman, FD Salim, Y Ren, D Spina, F Scholer, JR Trippas, M Sanderson, PN Bennett, RW White

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  ICMR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

We introduce the novel research problem of task recognition in daily life. We recognize tasks such as project management, planning..

Third international workshop on conversational approaches to information retrieval (CAIR'20): Full-day Workshop at CHIIR 2020

JR Trippas, P Thomas, D Spina, H Joho

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

The third CAIR workshop brings together researchers and developers interested in advancing conversational systems in interactive i..

Made to measure: A workshop on human-centred metrics for information seeking

G Buchanan, D McKay, CLA Clarke, L Azzopardi, J Trippas

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Metrics of human behaviour and effort lie at the heart of improving information interaction and retrieval. However, while some mea..

Towards a model for spoken conversational search

JR Trippas, D Spina, P Thomas, M Sanderson, H Joho, L Cavedon

Journal article  |  2020  |  Information Processing & Management

Conversation is the natural mode for information exchange in daily life, a spoken conversational interaction for search input and ..

How do computer scientists use google scholar?: A survey of user interest in elements on SERPs and author profile pages

J Kim, JR Trippas, M Sanderson, Z Bao, WB Croft

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  CEUR Workshop Proceedings

In this paper, we explore user interest in elements on Google Scholar’s search engine result pages (SERPs) and author profile page..

Learning About Work Tasks to Inform Intelligent Assistant Design

Johanne R Trippas, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Peter Bailey, Paul N Bennett, Ryen W White, Jonathan Liono, Yongli Ren, Flora D Salim, Mark Sanderson

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Using Audio Transformations to Improve Comprehension in Voice Question Answering

A Chuklin, A Severyn, JR Trippas, E Alfonseca, H Silen, D Spina

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Many popular form factors of digital assistants—such as Amazon Echo or Google Home—enable users to converse with speech-based syst..