{"id":9981,"date":"2023-11-30T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/?post_type=isir_news&#038;p=9981"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T10:26:44","slug":"guidance-project-developing-new-models-and-resources-for-interactive-information-access","status":"publish","type":"isir_news","link":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/news\/guidance-project-developing-new-models-and-resources-for-interactive-information-access\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"GUIDANCE PROJECT: DEVELOPING NEW MODELS AND RESOURCES FOR INTERACTIVE INFORMATION ACCESS\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Projet GUIDANCE \u2013 \u00ab\u00a0General pUrpose dIalogue-assisted&nbsp;Digital iNformation aCcEss\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GUIDANCE project aims to develop the next generation of search engines, whereby users interact more with the search engine. For example, clarification questions (\u00ab\u00a0is your question about&#8230; or &#8230;?\u00a0\u00bb) might be used, summaries of documents found on the Web generated, and&nbsp;&nbsp;past interactions be leveraged to better define the information need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GUIDANCE project takes place in the context of large language models (LLMs) and conversational systems (e.g. ChatGPT, WebGPT), which have experienced tremendous practical progress in the last few months. The project GUIDANCE aims to conduct research on General Purpose Dialogue-assisted Digital Information Access, specifically how to enable users to access digital information, with the goal of overcoming several limitations of current LLMs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>LLMs were not designed with Information Access \u2013 whether at the level of pre-training tasks or fine-tuning ones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LLMs have limited generalization abilities to new domains and\/or languages;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The veracity and truthfulness of the output are questionable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Potentially state-of-the-art LLMs models are not open access and the scientific methodology and proper evaluation are barely described in the scientific literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Led by Benjamin Piwowarski, CNRS research fellow at ISIR (MLIA team), the GUIDANCE project also involves the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irit.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Institute of Research in Computer Science of Toulouse<\/a> (IRIT) through the two IRIS and SIG research teams, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liglab.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory<\/a> (LIG) through the APTIKAL and MRIM research teams, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lis-lab.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Computer Science and Systems Laboratory<\/a> (LIS) through the R2I research team. The project, which began in October 2023, brings together 18 researchers from 6 research groups in Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>GUIDANCE project description by Benjamin Piwowarski.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>GUIDANCE: Improving access to digital information<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a community building perspective, GUIDANCE project aims at federating the Information Retrieval (IR) French Community project, by bringing together experts of the field to advance the development of Dialogue-based Information Access (DbIA) models leveraging LLMs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aim of the project is to develop new models and resources for interactive information access, e.g. dialoguing with a computer system in order to access (possibly automatically generated) information, while ensuring, on the one hand, adaptation to domains or languages with low resources (compared with English), and on the other hand, the explicability and veracity of the information generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Objective: succeed the 4 associated challenges<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a research perspective, GUIDANCE addresses four challenges associated with this project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How to design new LLMs or re-use LLMs for DbIA;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to leverage retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning (ReML) techniques to improve the accuracy and efficiency of information retrieval systems;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adapt LLMs and develop new architectures (for DbIA models) to deal with low resource and domain adaptation \u2013 with special attention paid to the low\/medium-resource languages (e.g. Occitan, French);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design DbIA models that can ensure the veracity and explainability of retrieved and synthesized information, while preserving the user\u2019s subjectivity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Towards an evolution in access to information<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GUIDANCE project is expected to deliver multiple results, paving the way for significant advances in the field of information access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firstly, the development of resources for training information access models (made available to the community). These are learning corpora that can be used to train new, more powerful models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secondly, the project aims to develop new modes of interaction with information access systems: a search engine can be pro-active in guiding the user towards relevant results (much more than by proposing related questions, as is currently the case).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the provision of pre-trained models for information access, which will enable these interactive models to be used freely, whether for research or other purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1048\" height=\"697\" data-id=\"9984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/projet-guidance-image2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/projet-guidance-image2.png 1048w, https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/projet-guidance-image2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/projet-guidance-image2-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/projet-guidance-image2-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1048px) 100vw, 1048px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GUIDANCE project is part of ISIR&rsquo;s research into the design and production of interfaces to optimize interaction between people and their environments, digital, physical, or mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ISIR scientific contact<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/personnel\/piwowarski\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benjamin Piwowarski<\/a>, CNRS research fellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9984,"template":"","isir_news_categories":[252],"class_list":["post-9981","isir_news","type-isir_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","isir_news_categories-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/isir_news\/9981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/isir_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/isir_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"isir_news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/isir_news_categories?post=9981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}