Regular biography
Jeff Dalton is a Chancellor's Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh. His research interests are not specified in the available information. Dalton's profile can be accessed at https://www.ed.ac.uk/Jeff_Dalton.html, and he can be contacted via email at jdalton2@exseed.ed.ac.uk.
Scholar-generated biography
Jeff Dalton is an Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in Information Retrieval, Conversational AI, Language Models, and NLP. His research focuses on improving conversational systems through dialogue management, query expansion, and the integration of large language models. Dalton's work includes developing datasets for conversational information seeking, such as Cast-19 and Cast-20, and exploring methods like generative relevance feedback and contextualized embeddings for query expansion. His contributions span from real-time query suggestion to multi-session dialogue construction, emphasizing the role of user interaction in conversational search. His research also addresses challenges in zero-shot video retrieval and the ethical use of LLM judges in evaluating conversational systems.