Svitlana Vakulenko presented the vision of conversational exploratory search, developed jointly with Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke at the Search-Oriented Conversational AI 2018 Workshop, co-located with EMNLP 2018 in Amsterdam.
This is a position paper discussing the research problems and possible connections for the novel search modality combining traditional search requests with knowledge and data exploration, to be used in chatbot assistants.
The full text Conversational exploratory search via interactive storytelling is available on arXiV.