@inproceedings{vlachos-etal-2025-building, title = "Building Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering Systems by Generating Synthetic Data and Decontextualizing User Questions", author = "Vlachos, Christos and Stylianou, Nikolaos and Fiotaki, Alexandra and Methenitis, Spiros and Palogiannidi, Elisavet and Stafylakis, Themos and Androutsopoulos, Ion", editor = "B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Lef{\`e}vre, Fabrice and Asher, Nicholas and Kim, Seokhwan and Merlin, Teva", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue", month = aug, year = "2025", address = "Avignon, France", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.sigdial-1.52/", pages = "641--657" }