The rapid growth in speech and small screen interfaces, particularly on mobile devices, has significantly influenced the way users interact with intelligent systems to satisfy their information needs. The growing interest in personal digital assistants, such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana, demonstrates the willingness of users to employ conversational interactions. In this special issue, we focus on interactions with information seeking goals. This includes conversational search and recommendation. Given the importance of the topic to both academia and industry and the recent availability of multiple public datasets in this area, we believe that the time is right to propose a special issue on this topic, and ACM Transactions on Information Systems is the perfect venue for it.

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特刊提案：对话式搜索和推荐

语音和小屏幕界面的快速增长，特别是在移动设备上，极大地影响了用户与智能系统交互以满足其信息需求的方式。对 Amazon Alexa、Apple Siri、Google Assistant 和 Microsoft Cortana 等个人数字助理的兴趣日益浓厚，这表明用户愿意使用对话式交互。在本期特刊中，我们关注与信息搜索目标的交互。这包括会话搜索和推荐。鉴于该主题对学术界和工业界的重要性以及该领域最近有多个公共数据集的可用性，我们认为现在是时候就该主题提出一个特刊了，ACM Transactions on Information Systems 是讨论该主题的最佳场所。它。