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If you're attending SIGIR 2025, please joins us in the Congressional Ballroom tomorrow for: 👉🏽 DEI session @ 12.30pm (lunch included). We have a panel discussion with Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র, Clemencia Siro, Feminist Killjoy, Doug Oard & Nicola Ferro. 👉🏽 Women in IR session @ 5:30pm. #SIGIR2024

In search of a privacy tool to protect your queries? Proud to announce that our resource paper "pyPANTERA: A Python PAckage for Natural language obfuscaTion Enforcing pRivacy & Anonymization" has been accepted at #CIKM2024 W kdf_7, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro github.com/Kekkodf/pypant…

Interested in exploring how to predict query difficulty in the era of LLMs? Guglielmo Faggioli, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nicola Ferro, Josiane Mothe, and I will be organising a workshop on Query Performance Prediction at ECIR2025 #ECIR2025 The call for papers will be announced soon—stay tuned!

Happy and honored for the Best Resource Paper Award at #CIKM2024 to pyPANTERA: A Python PAckage for Natural language obfuscaTion Enforcing pRivacy & Anonymization joint work with Francesco L. De Faveri and Guglielmo Faggioli doi.org/10.1145/362767… ACM CIKM 2024 ACM CIKM IIIA Hub

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for full papers sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-full-pape… Share your research in IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Abstracts: Jan 16, 2025 - Full papers: Jan 23, 2025 - Notifications: Mar 28, 2025 More info? Ask Omar Alonso Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Andrew Trotman at [email protected]

📢Call for Papers! The QPP++ 2025 workshop on Query Performance Prediction in the era of LLMs w/ Guglielmo Faggioli, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nicola Ferro, Josiane Mothe will be held ECIR2025 #ECIR2025 in Lucca, Italy🇮🇹. 🔗 Website: qppworkshop.github.io 🗓 Submit papers by 24 Feb 2025 #IR #NLP

Habemus #Dagstuhl Report! #Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. doi.org/10.4230/DagRep… Edited by Alan Said , @eva_zangerle, and yours truly - and written by many, many brilliant minds in our #recsys community. Too many to mention (pic here dagstuhl.de/24211) Schloss Dagstuhl

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for workshops sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-workshops… Let's brainstorm on IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Submission: Jan 9, 2025 - Notification: Feb 6, 2025 - Workshop day: Jul 17, 2025 More info? Ask Surya Kallumadi Zhaochun Ren at [email protected]

📣 📣 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]

Thank you Omar Alonso and Ricardo Baeza-Yates for making this book happen and pursuing it until the end: it is great to have un up-to-date book in the field! Happy to have contributed, together with Maria Maistro, with a chapter on experimental evaluation 😄

Humbled and deeply honored to receive the prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award for 2024! 🎉 Thanks to all the colleagues and the CLEF community who made this possible. On 9 Jan, my lecture on "Growing up in Cranfield, Maturing in Generative IR" cilip.org.uk/members/group_…

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for short papers sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-short-pap… Share your research in IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Abstracts: Feb 4, 2025 - Short papers: Feb 18, 2025 - Notifications: Apr 4, 2025 Ask Ebrahim Bagheri Faegheh Hasibi Joel Mackenzie at [email protected]

📣 📣 #sigir2025 doctoral consortium, discuss with seniors sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-doctoral-… Deadlines: - Submission: Feb 27, 2025 - Notifications: Apr 4, 2025 - DC: Jul 13, 2025 More info? Ask Michael Bendersky, Behrooz Mansouri, and Isabelle Moulinier at [email protected].

📚 New book alert 🎉 Read "Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques," from our Director of Research Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Senior Manager of Applied Science at @Amazon and Northeastern U. Faculty Member Omar Alonso, in Association for Computing Machinery here: bit.ly/4iFKMN3

Are you eager to contribute to the success of SIGIR 2025? You can self-nominate yourself for becoming a PC member for #sigir2025 at forms.gle/MdJrM8VsGUeHLU… We will process the self-nominations at the time of reviewer invitations in EasyChair; do not expect an immediate reply

Nicola Ferro is offering is offering his talk for the Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award 2024 Bravo Nicola! CLEF

Next #sigir2025 calls: 1) SHORT PAPERS 2) RESOURCE & REPRODUCIBILITY PAPERS 3) PERSPECTIVES PAPERS 4) DEMO PAPERS Deadlines AoE: - Abstracts due: February 4, 2025 - Papers due: February 18, 2025 [mind the 2 weeks gap] All calls at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it

📣 📣 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].

🏨 🛏️ The #sigir2025 HOTELS are now available! sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/recommended-ho… sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/accomodation.h… ⚠️ WARNING Sunday 13 July there will be the Iron Maiden concert in Padua (the only Italian date). Accommodations are expected to fill up quickly, so be proactive in booking 🤟

📣📣 Registration to SIGIR 2025 is now open at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/registration.h… Deadlines: - Author: May 9 - Early: May 20 - Regular: June 13 - Late: July 18 You can ask for a VISA letter (sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/visa-appl.html) and for Childcare service (sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/child-care.html).