Publications

2025

1. WSDM

   CRS Arena: Crowdsourced Benchmarking of Conversational Recommender Systems

   Nolwenn Bernard, Hideaki Joko, Faegheh Hasibi, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2025

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{Bernard:2025:WSDM,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn and Joko, Hideaki and Hasibi, Faegheh and Balog, Krisztian},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
     title = {CRS Arena: Crowdsourced Benchmarking of Conversational Recommender Systems},
     year = {2025},
     series = {WSDM '25},
     doi = {10.1145/3701551.3704120},
     pages = {1028--1031},
   }

2024

1. ICTIR

   Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access

   Nolwenn Bernard, and Krisztian Balog

   In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2024

   🏅 Best Paper Honorable Mention

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{Bernard:2024:ICTIR,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn and Balog, Krisztian},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval},
     title = {Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access},
     year = {2024},
     series = {ICTIR '24},
     doi = {10.1145/3664190.3672529},
     pages = {185--193},
     award = {Best Paper Honorable Mention}
   }

2. CUI

   Identifying Breakdowns in Conversational Recommender Systems using User Simulation

   Nolwenn Bernard, and Krisztian Balog

   In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2024

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{Bernard:2024:CUI,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn and Balog, Krisztian},
     title = {Identifying Breakdowns in Conversational Recommender Systems using User Simulation},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces},
     series = {CUI '24},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1145/3640794.3665539},
     pages = {1--10},
   }

3. WWW

   PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management

   Nolwenn Bernard, Ivica Kostric, Weronika Łajewska, and 4 more authors

   In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2024

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{Bernard:2024:WWW,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn and Kostric, Ivica and Łajewska, Weronika and Balog, Krisztian and Galuščáková, Petra and Setty, Vinay and Skjæveland, Martin G.},
     title = {PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1145/3589335.3651247},
     booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024},
     series = {WWW '24},
     pages = {1051--1054},
   }

4. WSDM

   IAI MovieBot 2.0: An Enhanced Research Platform with Trainable Neural Components and Transparent User Modeling

   Nolwenn Bernard, Ivica Kostric, and Krisztian Balog

   In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2024

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{Bernard:2024:WSDM,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn and Kostric, Ivica and Balog, Krisztian},
     title = {IAI MovieBot 2.0: An Enhanced Research Platform with Trainable Neural Components and Transparent User Modeling},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1145/3616855.3635699},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
     pages = {1042--1045},
     series = {WSDM '24},
   }

5. WSDM

   Leveraging User Simulation to Develop and Evaluate Conversational Information Access Agents

   Nolwenn Bernard

   In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2024

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{Bernard:2024:WSDM_DC,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn},
     title = {Leveraging User Simulation to Develop and Evaluate Conversational Information Access Agents},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1145/3616855.3635730},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
     pages = {1136--1138},
     series = {WSDM '24},
   }

6. AI Open

   An Ecosystem for Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Survey and Research Roadmap

   Martin G. Skjæveland, Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard, and 2 more authors

   AI Open, 2024

   Bib PDF

   @article{Skjæveland:2024:AIOpen,
     title = {An Ecosystem for Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Survey and Research Roadmap},
     author = {Skjæveland, Martin G. and Balog, Krisztian and Bernard, Nolwenn and Lajewska, Weronika and Linjordet, Trond},
     year = {2024},
     journal = {AI Open},
     doi = {10.1016/j.aiopen.2024.01.003},
     pages = {55--69},
   }

2023

1. ACM CSUR

   A Systematic Review of Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Information Retrieval

   Nolwenn Bernard, and Krisztian Balog

   ACM Computing Surveys, 2023

   Bib PDF

   @article{Bernard:2023:CSUR,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn and Balog, Krisztian},
     title = {A Systematic Review of Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Information Retrieval},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1145/3637211},
     journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
   }

2. SIGIR

   MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce

   Nolwenn Bernard, and Krisztian Balog

   In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{Bernard:2023:SIGIR,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn and Balog, Krisztian},
     title = {MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1145/3539618.3591883},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
     pages = {2775--2785},
     series = {SIGIR '23},
   }

2022

1. TREC

   The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistance Track

   Weronika Lajewska, Nolwenn Bernard, Ivica Kostric, and 2 more authors

   In TREC 2022 Working Notes, Nov 2022

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{Lajewska:2022:TREC,
     author = {Lajewska, Weronika and Bernard, Nolwenn and Kostric, Ivica and Sekuli\'c, Ivan and Balog, Krisztian},
     title = {The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistance Track},
     booktitle = {TREC 2022 Working Notes},
     year = {2022},
     month = nov,
     publisher = {NIST},
   }

2. RecSys

   DAGFiNN: A Conversational Conference Assistant

   Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, Tølløv Alexander Aresvik, and 10 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Nov 2022

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{Kostric:2022:RecSys,
     author = {Kostric, Ivica and Balog, Krisztian and Aresvik, T\o{}ll\o{}v Alexander and Bernard, Nolwenn and D\o{}rheim, Eyvinn Thu and Hantula, Pholit and Havn-S\o{}rensen, Sander and Henriksen, Rune and Hosseini, Hengameh and Khlybova, Ekaterina and Lajewska, Weronika and Mosand, Sindre Ekrheim and Orujova, Narmin},
     title = {DAGFiNN: A Conversational Conference Assistant},
     year = {2022},
     doi = {10.1145/3523227.3551467},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems},
     pages = {628--631},
     series = {RecSys '22},
   }

2021

1. ICITR

   How to pretrain an efficient cross-disciplinary language model: The ScilitBERT use case

   Jean-Baptiste Broise, Nolwenn Bernard, Jean-Philippe Dubuc, and 2 more authors

   In 2021 6th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR), Nov 2021

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{delaBroise:2021:ICITR,
     author = {de la Broise, Jean-Baptiste and Bernard, Nolwenn and Dubuc, Jean-Philippe and Perlato, Andrea and Latard, Bastien},
     booktitle = {2021 6th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR)},
     title = {How to pretrain an efficient cross-disciplinary language model: The ScilitBERT use case},
     year = {2021},
     pages = {1--6},
     doi = {10.1109/ICITR54349.2021.9657164},
     series = {ICITR '21},
   }

2020

1. TPDL

   Knowledge-Based Categorization of Scientific Articles for Similarity Predictions

   Nolwenn Bernard, Jonathan Weber, Germain Forestier, and 2 more authors

   In Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge, Nov 2020

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{Bernard:2020:TPDL,
     author = {Bernard, Nolwenn and Weber, Jonathan and Forestier, Germain and Hassenforder, Michel and Latard, Bastien},
     title = {Knowledge-Based Categorization of Scientific Articles for Similarity Predictions},
     booktitle = {Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge},
     year = {2020},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-54956-5_11},
     pages = {147--160},
     series = {TPDL '20},
   }