{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,14]],"date-time":"2026-03-14T20:30:26Z","timestamp":1773520226954,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":28,"publisher":"Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)","issue":"2","content-domain":{"domain":["dl.acm.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["SIGIR Forum"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>The goal of Search-oriented Conversational AI is to design systems that allow for a more convenient information access by means of a conversational user interface. Further development of Conversational Search systems requires closer integration and better information exchange between the diverse research communities. Over the past years, the Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) workshop became an established venue that provides a discussion platform on Conversational AI for intelligent information access, bringing together researchers and practitioners across artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information retrieval, recommender systems, machine learning, dialogue systems and human-computer interaction subfields. This year, the full-day SCAI workshop at IJCAI 2025 once again brought together a group of researchers interested in informing the design of a new generation of systems for conversational information access. This paper, co-authored by both organizers and participants of the workshop, presents a summary of the insights gathered from the joint discussions that followed the invited talks.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Date:<\/jats:bold>\n                    18 August 2025.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Website:<\/jats:bold>\n                    https:\/\/scai.info\/scai-2025\/.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1145\/3799914.3799929","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,4]],"date-time":"2026-03-04T18:19:03Z","timestamp":1772648343000},"page":"1-12","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Report on the 9th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2025) at IJCAI 2025"],"prefix":"10.1145","volume":"59","author":[{"given":"Svitlana","family":"Vakulenko","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Philipp","family":"Christmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Isabel","family":"Feustel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulm University, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vaibhav","family":"Adlakha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"McGill University, Mila, ServiceNow, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vahid Sadiri","family":"Javadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Patricia","family":"Schmidtova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Charles University, Czech Republic"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_1_1","first-page":"93","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)","author":"Balloccu Simone","year":"2024","unstructured":"Simone Balloccu, Patr\u00edcia Schmidtov\u00e1, Mateusz Lango, and Ondrej Dusek. Leak, cheat, repeat: Data contamination and evaluation malpractices in closed-source LLMs. In Yvette Graham and Matthew Purver, editors, Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 67\u201393, St. Julian's, Malta, March 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.eacl-long.5\/."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","volume-title":"First Conference on Language Modeling","author":"BehnamGhader Parishad","year":"2024","unstructured":"Parishad BehnamGhader, Vaibhav Adlakha, Marius Mosbach, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Nicolas Chapados, and Siva Reddy. LLM2Vec: Large language models are secretly powerful text encoders. In First Conference on Language Modeling, 2024. URL https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=IW1PR7vEBf."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3121050.3121111"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/2025.findings-acl.939"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3539618.3591682"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_6_1","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI, SCAI@EMNLP 2018","author":"Chuklin Aleksandr","year":"2018","unstructured":"Aleksandr Chuklin, Jeff Dalton, Julia Kiseleva, Alexey Borisov, and Mikhail Burtsev, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI, SCAI@EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/volumes\/W18-57\/."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_7_1","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI)","author":"Dalton Jeff","year":"2020","unstructured":"Jeff Dalton, Aleksandr Chuklin, Julia Kiseleva, and Mikhail Burtsev, editors. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI), Online, November 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2020.scai-1.0."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/2024.sigdial-1.22"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_9_1","first-page":"77","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Argumentation for eXplainable AI","author":"Feustel Isabel","year":"2025","unstructured":"Isabel Feustel, Carolin Schindler, Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes. Towards a deeper understanding: Effects of domain knowledge integration for conversational xai. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Argumentation for eXplainable AI, pages 63\u201377, 2025. URL https:\/\/ceur-ws.org\/Vol-4066\/paper_7.pdf."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3627508.3638310"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_11_1","volume-title":"Bridging Language and Items for Retrieval and Recommendation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03952","author":"Hou Yupeng","year":"2024","unstructured":"Yupeng Hou, Jiacheng Li, Zhankui He, An Yan, Xiusi Chen, and Julian McAuley. Bridging Language and Items for Retrieval and Recommendation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03952, 2024. URL https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2403.03952."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_12_1","volume-title":"OpinionConv: Conversational product search with grounded opinions","author":"Javadi Vahid Sadiri","year":"2023","unstructured":"Vahid Sadiri Javadi, Martin Potthast, and Lucie Flek. OpinionConv: Conversational product search with grounded opinions. 2023. URL https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2023.sigdial-1.6\/."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_13_1","volume-title":"Large language models as span annotators","author":"Kasner Zden\u011bk","year":"2025","unstructured":"Zden\u011bk Kasner, Vil\u00e9m Zouhar, Patr\u00edcia Schmidtov\u00e1, Ivan Kart\u00e1\u010d, Krist\u00fdna Onderkov\u00e1, Ond\u0159ej Pl\u00e1tek, Dimitra Gkatzia, Saad Mahamood, Ond\u0159ej Du\u0161ek, and Simone Balloccu. Large language models as span annotators, 2025. URL https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.08697."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_14_1","volume-title":"The Llama 3 Herd of Models","author":"Meta Llama Team","year":"2024","unstructured":"Llama Team @ Meta. The Llama 3 Herd of Models, 2024. URL https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.21783."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/2023.eacl-main.148"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_16_1","volume-title":"Douwe Kiela. Generative Representational Instruction Tuning. In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations","author":"Muennighoff Niklas","year":"2024","unstructured":"Niklas Muennighoff, Hongjin Su, Liang Wang, Nan Yang, Furu Wei, Tao Yu, Amanpreet Singh, and Douwe Kiela. Generative Representational Instruction Tuning. In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024. URL https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=BC4lIvfSzv."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_17_1","first-page":"1546","volume-title":"Scott Yih. UniK-QA: Unified Representations of Structured and Unstructured Knowledge for Open-Domain Question Answering. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022","author":"Oguz Barlas","year":"2022","unstructured":"Barlas Oguz, Xilun Chen, Vladimir Karpukhin, Stan Peshterliev, Dmytro Okhonko, Michael Schlichtkrull, Sonal Gupta, Yashar Mehdad, and Scott Yih. UniK-QA: Unified Representations of Structured and Unstructured Knowledge for Open-Domain Question Answering. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, pages 1535\u20131546, 2022. URL https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2022.findings-naacl.115\/."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_18_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3696410.3714948"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_19_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3477495.3531700"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_20_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3477495.3531873"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_21_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/2024.inlg-main.44"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_22_1","first-page":"79","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference","author":"Schmidtova Patricia","year":"2025","unstructured":"Patricia Schmidtova, Eduardo Cal\u00f2, Simone Balloccu, Dimitra Gkatzia, Rudali Huidrom, Mateusz Lango, Fahime Same, Vil\u00e9m Zouhar, Saad Mahamood, and Ondrej Dusek. Do my eyes deceive me? a survey of human evaluations of hallucinations in NLG. In Lucie Flek, Shashi Narayan, L\u00ea Hong Phuong, and Jiahuan Pei, editors, Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 60\u201379, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL https:\/\/preview.aclanthology.org\/ingest-inlg\/2025.inlg-main.4\/."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_23_1","first-page":"25026","volume-title":"Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025","author":"Schmidtov\u00e1 Patr\u00edcia","year":"2025","unstructured":"Patr\u00edcia Schmidtov\u00e1, Ondrej Dusek, and Saad Mahamood. Real-world summarization: When evaluation reaches its limits. In Christos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, and Violet Peng, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, pages 25014\u201325026, Suzhou, China, November 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.findings-emnlp.1363\/."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_24_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/2025.findings-acl.1160"},{"issue":"2","key":"e_1_2_1_25_1","first-page":"2021","article-title":")","volume":"55","author":"Vakulenko Svitlana","year":"2021","unstructured":"Svitlana Vakulenko, Ondrej Dusek, and Leigh Clark. Report on the 6th workshop on search-oriented conversational AI (SCAI 2021). SIGIR Forum, 55(2), 2021.","journal-title":"SIGIR Forum"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_26_1","first-page":"4922","volume-title":"Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC","author":"Vakulenko Svitlana","year":"2022","unstructured":"Svitlana Vakulenko, Johannes Kiesel, and Maik Fr\u00f6be. SCAI-QReCC Shared Task on Conversational Question Answering. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric B\u00e9chet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Mazo, Jan Odijk, and Stelios Piperidis, editors, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022, Marseille, France, 20\u201325 June 2022, pages 4913\u20134922. European Language Resources Association, 2022. URL https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2022.lrec-1.525."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_27_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18653\/v1\/2024.acl-long.642"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_28_1","first-page":"8900","volume-title":"Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025","author":"Zhang Wenzheng","year":"2025","unstructured":"Wenzheng Zhang, Xi Victoria Lin, Karl Stratos, Wen-tau Yih, and Mingda Chen. ImpRAG: Retrieval-augmented generation with implicit queries. In Christos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, and Violet Peng, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, pages 8888\u20138900, Suzhou, China, November 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.findings-emnlp.472\/."}],"container-title":["ACM SIGIR Forum"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3799914.3799929","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,14]],"date-time":"2026-03-14T17:19:40Z","timestamp":1773508780000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3799914.3799929"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]]},"references-count":28,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1145\/3799914.3799929"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3799914.3799929","relation":{},"ISSN":["0163-5840"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0163-5840","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2026-03-04","order":3,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}