Welcome to the User Simulation Community!

User simulation plays a crucial role in developing and evaluating interactive intelligent systems like search engines, recommender systems, and conversational assistants. It allows researchers to create realistic user behaviour models, enabling system development and large-scale automatic evaluation.

This website aims to be a central hub for the user simulation community, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and progress in this exciting field.

Resources

• FnTIR book “User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems” by K. Balog and CX. Zhai
• Annotated bibliography (coming soon)

Events

• Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems @CIKM’23 [2023 Oct] and @SIGIR-AP’23 [2023 Nov]
• Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Interactive Intelligent Systems @AAAI’24 [2024 Feb]
• Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web @TheWebConf’24 [2024 May]
• SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA) @SIGIR’24 [2024 July]

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