TREC iKAT 2023: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02637v1
• Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 11:22:16 GMT
• Title: TREC iKAT 2023: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants
• Authors: Mohammad Aliannejadi, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffery Dalton, Leif Azzopardi,
• Abstract summary: The extended TREC Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track (iKAT) collection aims to enable researchers to test and evaluate Conversational Search Agents (CSA) The collection contains a set of 36 personalized dialogues over 20 different topics each coupled with a Personal Text Knowledge Base (PTKB) that defines the bespoke user personas. A total of 344 turns with approximately 26,000 passages are provided as assessments on relevance, as well as additional assessments on generated responses over four key dimensions: relevance, completeness, groundedness, and naturalness.
• Score: 10.511277428023305
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Conversational information seeking has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), providing the basis for interpreting and responding in a naturalistic manner to user requests. The extended TREC Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track (iKAT) collection aims to enable researchers to test and evaluate their Conversational Search Agents (CSA). The collection contains a set of 36 personalized dialogues over 20 different topics each coupled with a Personal Text Knowledge Base (PTKB) that defines the bespoke user personas. A total of 344 turns with approximately 26,000 passages are provided as assessments on relevance, as well as additional assessments on generated responses over four key dimensions: relevance, completeness, groundedness, and naturalness. The collection challenges CSA to efficiently navigate diverse personal contexts, elicit pertinent persona information, and employ context for relevant conversations. The integration of a PTKB and the emphasis on decisional search tasks contribute to the uniqueness of this test collection, making it an essential benchmark for advancing research in conversational and interactive knowledge assistants.

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