Half-Day Workshops
Task Intelligence Workshop
Friday, February 15 | 9:00 AM–2:00 PM
Organizers: Ahmed Hassan-Awadallah, Cathal Gurrin, Mark Sanderson, Ryen W. White
Invited Speaker: Paul Bennett
Accepted Paper: Supporting Complex Tasks Using Multiple Devices (Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White)
Tasks are defined pieces of work that range in scope from specific (sending an email) to broad (planning a wedding) and are central to all aspects of information access and use. Task intelligence spans technologies and experiences to extract, understand, and support the completion of short- and long-term tasks. Helping users complete tasks is a key capability of search systems, digital assistants, and productivity applications and poses core challenges in data mining and knowledge representation and draws on additional research from areas such as machine learning and natural language processing. The workshop will comprise a mixture of research paper presentations, reports from data challenge participants, including system demonstrations if available.