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📣 📣 The #sigir2025 call for Low-Resource Environments is out at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/low-resource-e… Deadlines - Submission: March 3, 2025 - Notification: March 31, 2025 Need more information? Ask our Chairs Catherine Chavula, Charlie Clarke, and Doug Oard at [email protected]

If you can't access the book directly, a draft of our chapter is available on arXiv. arxiv.org/abs/2404.08137

Join us at #Eval4RAG aka Workshop on Evaluation of RAG at #ECIR2025! Submit a 1-page abstract as presentation proposal on topics on anything related to RAG eval for your new, published or ECIR2025 papers. eval4rag.github.io

☠️Search is dead… or isn't it? 📢Call for Proposals: Second Search Futures Workshop ECIR2025! #IR is transforming with #AI & evolving research paradigms. Let's shape the future of search! searchfutures.github.io w/Charlie Clarke Adam Roegiest Ian Soboroff | [email protected] Johanne Zhaochun Ren

I miss the days when David Frum represented the extreme right.

We have a comparison of pairwise relevance assessment with other methods in our LLMEval workshop paper from SIGIR 2024. arxiv.org/abs/2404.04044

📣 📣 The #sigir2025 LiveRAG Challenge is open at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/live-rag-chall… Prizes: - First Prize: $5000 - Second Prize: $3000 - Third Prize: $2000 Deadlines: - Application submission deadline: February 24, 2025 More info? Ask [email protected].

SIGIR deadline is tomorrow. But Eval4RAG is also right at the corner! 📅 Submit your one-pager by this Friday (Feb 21) for presentation at the workshop! eval4rag.github.io

📢 I am happy to share that we released the report on the #LLMJudge challenge as part of the LLM4Eval Workshop workshop, co-located with the #SIGIR2024 Conference.

Every plan I've seen to deal with generative AI in teaching and research has been backward looking. That world is gone, people. No person born after the start of the pandemic will remember a world without omnipresent AI assistance.

Who has the lettuce ready?

Organized by Clemencia (Clem), Hossein A. (Saeed) Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi, nick r , Charlie Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli , Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র , Paul Thomas , and Emine Yilmaz #SIGIR, #IR, #Evaluation, #LLM4Eval

Very pleased to host the next #SIGIR Virtual Forum Talk by L. Dietz @[email protected] @[email protected] This work received Best Paper Award ACM SIGIR 2024 Free registration, please sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Charlie Clarke Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র Negar Arabzadeh

So far the regrets are beating the delighteds 3-2

Final score is “delighted” - 3 “regret” -5 . Tough game.

In only two years LLM-based relevance assessment has gone from rejections because it’s crazy and dangerous to rejections because it is boring and standard.

📢 Deadline extended! Submit to #LLM4Eval @ #SIGIR2025 by April 30 (AoE) We welcome work on LLM-based evaluation, including: 🧠 beyond query-doc 🗣️ simulating users 🧪 synthetic eval data 🔗 llm4eval.github.io/SIGIR2025/cfp/ #CFP #IR #LLMs #SIGIR2025

The SIGIR slack has a #sigir-ec-candidates channel to ask questions.

SIGIR is in less than 2 months. We have superb keynote speakers and a great research program. Registration is now open sigir2025.dei.unipd.it See you all in Italy SIGIR 2025 ACM SIGIR