Johanne Trippas

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Johanne Trippas is a Doreen Thomas Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow interested in Intelligent Systems, in particular, on next-generation capabilities for digital assistants including spoken conversational search, collection of complex datasets and task progression through ubiquitous sensing. I am also working with Ambulance Victoria, using artificial intelligence (AI) to efficiently identify cardiac arrest emergency calls to accelerate critical care and spare lives.

My main research interests are Conversational Systems, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR), and experimental design, with the aim of making information accessible to everyone.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science focussing on Conversational Systems at RMIT University in 2019 under supervision of Professor Lawrence Cavedon, Professor Mark Sanderson, and Doctor Damiano Spina. I am awarded the RMIT University Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Higher Degree by Research Prize for my doctoral work and thesis.

I am appointed as Vice-chair of the ACM SIGIR Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) promoting the reproducibility of research results.








Publications

[Google Scholar] [ResearchGate] [DBLP] [ACM] [ORCID]

2021

▣ Towards Multi-Modal Conversational Information Seeking
Yashar Deldjoo, Johanne Trippas and Hamed Zamani
The ACM SIGIR, 2021. [DOI]

▣ The PhD Journey: Reaching Out and Lending a Hand
Johanne R. Trippas and David Maxwell
The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 2021. [DOI]

▣ Accessing Media Via an Audio-only Communication Channel: A Log Analysis
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, and Lawrence Cavedon
The ACM CUI, 2021. [DOI]

▣ Understanding the Utility of Digital Flight Assistants: A Preliminary Analysis
Sarah Gosper, Johanne R Trippas, Harriette Richards, Fraser Allison, Cynthia Sear, Sara Khorasani and Fabio Mattioli
The ACM CUI, 2021. [DOI]

▣ Future Conversations
Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas, Hideo Joho, Katriina Byström, Leigh Clark, Nick Craswell, Mary Czerwinski, David Elsweiler, Alexander Frummet, Souvick Ghosh, Johannes Kiesel, Irene Lopatovska, Daniel McDuff, Selina Meyer, Ahmed Mourad, Owoicho Paul, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Daniel Russell, and Laurianne Sitbon
ACM SIGIR Forum, 55(1), 2021. [DOI]

2020

▣ Cc-news-en: A Large English News Corpus
Joel Mackenzie, Rodger Benham, Matthias Petri, Johanne R. Trippas, J. Shane Culpepper, and Alistair Moffat
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2020.
CC-News-EN dataset [DOI]

▣ A Mixed-Method Analysis of Text and Audio Search Interfaces with Varying Task Complexity
Alexandra Vtyurina, Charles L. A. Clarke, Edith Law, Johanne R. Trippas and Horaţiu Bota
The ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2020. [DOI]
GitHub

▣ Towards a model for spoken conversational search [Preprint]
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, and Lawrence Cavedon
Information Processing & Management, 2020. [DOI]

▣ Third International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR’20): Full-day Workshop at CHIIR 2020
Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas, Damiano Spina, and Hideo Joho
The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 2020. [DOI]

▣ Made to Measure: A Workshop on Human-Centred Metrics for Information Seeking
George Buchanan, Dana McKay, Charlie Clarke, Leif Azzopardi, Johanne R. Trippas
The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 2020. [DOI]

▣ Intelligent Task Recognition: Towards Enabling Productivity Assistance in Daily Life
Jonathan Liono, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Flora D. Salim, Yongli Ren, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White
The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2020. [DOI]

2019

▣ Spoken Conversational Search: Audio-only Interactive Information Retrieval [SIGIR Forum doctoral abstract]
Johanne R. Trippas
RMIT University, 2019. (Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Science) The RMIT University Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Higher Degree by Research Prize.

▣ Using Audio Transformations to Improve Comprehension in Voice Question Answering
Aleksandr Chuklin, Aliaksei Severyn, Johanne R. Trippas, Enrique Alfonseca, Hanna Silen, and Damiano Spina
CLEF'19, 2019. [DOI]
CLEF2019-prosody GitHub

▣ Learning About Work Tasks to Inform Intelligent Assistant Design
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Peter Bailey, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Jonathan Liono, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim, and Mark Sanderson
The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 2019. [DOI]

▣ User Intent Prediction in Information-seeking Conversations
Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Johanne R. Trippas, and Minghui Qiu
The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 2019. [DOI]

▣ Data Sets for Spoken Conversational Search
Johanne R. Trippas and Paul Thomas
The Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use (BIIRRR 2019), 2019.

▣ Building a Benchmark for Task Progress in Digital Assistants
Jonathan Liono, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mohammad S. Rahamad, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, and Ryen W. White
The WSDM'19 Task Intelligence Workshop (TI@WSDM19), 2019.

▣ How do Computer Scientists Use Google Scholar?: A Survey of User Interest in Elements on SERPs and Author Profile Pages
Jaewon Kim, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson, Zhifeng Bao, and W. Bruce Croft
8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2019), 2019.

▣ Spoken Conversational Search: Audio-only Interactive Information Retrieval
Johanne R. Trippas
ACM SIGIR Forum, 53(2):106–107, 2019. [DOI]

2018

▣ Prosody Modifications for Question-Answering in Voice-Only Settings
Aleksandr Chuklin, Aliaksei Severyn, Johanne R. Trippas, Enrique Alfonseca, Hanna Silen, Damiano Spina

▣ Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations
Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Johanne R. Trippas, Yongfeng Zhang, Minghui Qiu
The ACM SIGIR, 2018. [DOI]

▣ Informing the Design of Spoken Conversational Search
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Hideo Joho, Mark Sanderson
The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 2018. [DOI]

▣ ACM SIGIR student liaison program
M. Aliannejadi, M. Hasanain, J. Mao, J. Singh, J. R. Trippas, H. Zamani, and L. Dietz
ACM SIGIR Forum, 51(3):42–45, 2018. [DOI]

2017

▣ Modelling Information Needs in Collaborative Search Conversations
Sosuke Shiga, Hideo Joho, Roi Blanco, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson
The 40th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2017. [DOI]

▣ Extracting Audio Summaries to Support Effective Spoken Document Search
Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). [DOI]

▣ Crowdsourcing User Preferences and Query Judgements for Speech-Only Search
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson
First International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'17), 2017.
Co-located with SIGIR 2017, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.

▣ A Conversational Search Transcription Protocol and Analysis
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson
First International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'17), 2017.
Co-located with SIGIR 2017, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.

▣ How do people interact in conversational speech-only search tasks: A preliminary analysis
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson
The ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), Oslo, Norway, 2017. [DOI]
Poster Dataset

2016

▣ Spoken Conversational Search: Speech-only Interactive Information Retrieval
Johanne R. Trippas
The First ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, 2016. [DOI]

2015

▣ SpeakerLDA: Discovering Topics in Transcribed Multi-Speaker Audio Contents
Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson
ACM Multimedia 2015 Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM'15), 2015. [DOI]

▣ Results Presentation Methods for a Spoken Conversational Search System
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, Lawrence Cavedon
First International Workshop on Novel Web Search Interfaces and Systems (NWSearch'15), 2015.
Co-located with CIKM 2015, Melbourne Australia. [DOI]

▣ Towards Understanding the Impact of Length in Web Search Result Summaries over a Speech-only Communication Channel
Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, Lawrence Cavedon
The 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Santiago, Chile, 2015. [DOI]

▣ Spoken Conversational Search: Information Retrieval over a Speech-only Communication Channel
Johanne R. Trippas
The 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Santiago, Chile, 2015. [DOI]















Scholarships and Awards

  • 2021: The University of Melbourne School of Computing and Information Systems Early Career Researcher Grant
  • 2020: Doreen Thomas Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of Melbourne
  • 2020: Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) Seed Funding, The University of Melbourne
  • May 2020: The RMIT University Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Higher Degree by Research Prize
  • December 2019: RMIT University Research Excellence Award
  • December 2018: Received SIGIR Travel Grant to attend CHIIR 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • September 2018: Appointed to Women Techmakers Scholar (WTS) 2018 (APAC) (WTS formerly know as the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Program)
  • January 2018: Received SIGIR Travel Grant to attend CHIIR 2018, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
  • August 2017: Appointed to ACM SIGIR Student Liaison
  • June 2017: Received SIGIR Travel Grant to attend SIGIR 2017, Tokyo, Japan
  • January 2017: Received ACM Grant to attend ACM Turing Award Celebration 2017, San Francisco
  • December 2016: Received SIGIR Travel Grant to attend CHIIR 2017, Oslo, Norway
  • December 2016: RMIT University International Digital Engagement Scholarship
  • November 2016: RMIT SGR 2017 ACSPRI Summer School Grant
  • March 2016: RMIT University CSIT Publication Award
  • December 2015: Received SIGIR Travel Grant to attend CHIIR 2016, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  • September 2015: Received Professor Ram Kumar Memorial Foundation grant to attend a tutorial at CIKM 2015
  • August 2015: Received RMIT CS&IT grant to attend CIKM 2015
  • June 2015: Received Microsoft Research Travel Grant to attend SIGIR 2015, Santiago, Chile
  • May 2015: Received a scholarship from Graduate Women Victoria
  • November 2014: RMIT PhD RPIS scholarship
  • May 2014: Laureate of Vocatio, Belgium, 2014
  • June 2012: Received a scholarship from Boeing




Services

  • Vice-chair of the ACM SIGIR Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC)
  • Co-organiser of CAIR'20 workshop at CHIIR'20
  • Co-organiser for the Russian summer school in information retrieval (RuSSIR 2020)
  • Co-organiser of Made to Measure: A Workshop on Human-Centred metrics for Information Seeking at CHIIR'20
  • Program Committee Member: CIKM2020
  • Program Committee Member: IUI2020
  • Program Committee Member: HT2020
  • Program Committee Member: WSDM ConvERSe'20
  • Program Committee Member: AFIRM 2019 (ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search)
  • Program Committee Member: TI@WSDM19 (Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019)
  • Program Committee Member: SIGIR 2017, 2018, 2020
  • Local organising committee: Young Researchers' Round Table 2018
  • Program Committee Member: The Web Conference (WWW) 2018
  • Program Committee Member: CAIR (Co-located at SIGIR) 2017, 2018
  • Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2018-2020
  • Program Committee Member: CHI 2018-2020




Media

Article: Hey Siri, how’s my mental health?

Conversational systems may play a key role in future mental healthcare and have the potential to help cut down global e-waste – but there are caveats. By Dr Johanne Trippas



Article: What do pilots think of having more AI in the cockpit?

Pilots are keen to explore using new technology like digital voice assistants in the cockpit but they also need to be central in the design of any new systems. By Dr Fabio Mattioli, Dr Johanne Trippas, Sarah Gosper, Dr Fraser Allison, Sara Khorasani, Dr Harriette Richards, Cynthia Sear and Gabby Bush



Article: The Search for Diversity in Tech

Johanne Trippas learnt about more than just computer science during her PhD: she also came to appreciate how technology impacts lives and why women need to be a part of it.



Video: Johanne Trippas - PhD Researcher



Article: Teaching search engines to know what you need

Information scientists are figuring out how to make search engines better at listening, so they can give us search results before we even ask.



Video: Johanne Trippas - VOCATIO laureate

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