Jeff Dalton
Chancellor's Fellow
Leads the GRILL lab, developing methods for machine understanding of language and data, including conversational information retrieval and knowledge-grounded assistants.
Jeff Dalton's lab at Edinburgh works on knowledge, QA & retrieval, dialogue, generation & summarization and recommendation, search & web. 10 papers since 2023, 6 at top venues, mostly SIGIR and ECIR. 7 PhD students. 8 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 60%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 0 papers2025 · T1 0
- 5 papers2024 · T1 3
- 5 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGIR, ECIR, EMNLP, KDD
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- conversational4 papers
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval3 papers
- Recommendation, search & web3 papers
- assistants2 papers
- Dialogue, generation & summarization1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20245 papers
- Proceedings of KEIR@ECIR : THE FIRST WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE-ENHANCED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL at ECIR’24Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search (opens in a new tab)
- ECIRDREQ: Document Re-Ranking Using Entity-based Query Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)GRILLBot In Practice: Lessons and Tradeoffs Deploying Large Language Models for Adaptable Conversational Task Assistants (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)TREC iKAT 2023: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- SIGIR (T1)Exploiting Simulated User Feedback for Conversational Search: Ranking, Rewriting, and Beyond (opens in a new tab)
- International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical ImagingFinding-aware anatomical tokens for chest X-ray automated reporting (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Large Generative Models Meet Multimodal ApplicationsGenerating Multimodal Augmentations with LLMs from Song Metadata for Music Information Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Generative Relevance Feedback with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)ToolWriter: Question Specific Tool Synthesis for Tabular Data (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went8 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
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Informatics PhD
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- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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