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Next up at #ECIR2025, Maik Fröbe presenting his fantastic work on corpus sub sampling and how to more efficiently evaluate retrieval systems

What an honor to receive both the best short paper award and the best paper honourable mention award at #ECIR2025. Thank you to all the co-authors Maik Fröbe Harry Scells Shengyao Zhuang Bevan Koopman Guido Zuccon Benno Stein Martin Potthast Matthias Hagen 🥳

Maik Fröbe Harry Scells Shengyao Zhuang Bevan Koopman Guido Zuccon Benno Stein Martin Potthast Matthias Hagen Short: Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-ranking webis.de/publications.h… Full: Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-Passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-Ranking with Cross-Encoders webis.de/publications.h…

ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11! Dive into cutting-edge Information Retrieval & AI, network with experts. Plus, don’t miss the interactive FDIA Symposium! 🎓 👉 2025.essir.eu ESSIR #IR #AI #ECIR2025

Still in Lucca on Thursday? Why not attend our Scholarly Information Access workshop SCOLIA at San Micheletto Campus! We have an open mic session, speak to us if you want to present your work! sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/sc… Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ Christin Kreutz Philipp Mayr #ecir2025 ECIR2025

Yesterday I presented our #ECIR2025 paper "An Investigation of Prompt Variations for Zero-shot LLM-based Rankers", with Shuoqi Sun Shengyao Zhuang Wang shuai (Dylan). Yes, it was in a church! Slides at ielab.io/files/guido-20… and paper at arxiv.org/abs/2406.14117

Our SCOLIA 2025 workshop on scholarly information access ECIR2025 is in full swing! More people joined later. Lots of interesting talks and discussion on scholarly data analysis and information access. sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/sc… #ecir2025

Eval4RAG kicking off at ECIR2025 with a keynote from Fabio Petroni

Last day ECIR2025 but TerrierTeam isn’t done yet! Up next: our very own Andreas Chari presenting an exciting talk on Low-Resource Retrieval. Don’t miss it — and make sure to check out the paper! 😎😎👏#ecir2025

Thank you so much Guido Zuccon ! It was great to collaborate with you and ieLab members Wang shuai (Dylan) Shengyao Zhuang ! Hope to see you soon and work together again. 😁

Ho passato 20 minuti stamane a PROVARE a spiegare: - se perdi il 15% di quotazione lunedì - sali del 15% il martedì No, non sei “tornato a pari”. Hai perso il 2.5%. E no, non sono riuscito a convincere la persona. Il sistema scolastico ha irrimediabilmente fallito, temo. 🤷

SIGIR-AP'25 website is live! sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2025/ We're soliciting research, resource, reproducibility, perspective, and industry papers. If you had a paper rejected at SIGIR'25 you can resubmit either through the SIGIR-Revise-and-Resubmit process or as a regular submission!

Today, Harry Scells Harry Scells from University of Tübingen is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Quantifying and Applying Green IR". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

I'm here in Sydney for WWW2025! see us this Thursday, at WWW conference at Posterboard-21, Short Paper & Demo Parkside Ballroom if you are interested!

I have voted for the ACM SIGIR elections -- have you? Voting closes June 3. Info on candidates and link to cast your vote here: acm.org/elections/sigs…

Our paper has been accepted at #ACL2025 main conference!

Many congratulations to my fellow SIGIR Academicians who were inducted into the ACM SIGIR Class of 2025: David Carmel, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Don Metzler, Chirag Shah, Ian Soboroff, and Min Zhang. All incredible contributors to IR. sigir.org/awards/sigir-a…

Delighted that Aleksandr V. Petrov passed his 🎓 PhD defense this morning, without corrections. Thanks to Pablo Castells and Nicolas Pugeault for their thorough examination of the thesis, and Mireilla Bikanga Ada for convening the defense!

IR is moving so fast! It was only March that we released Rank-R1; in April ReasonIR came up; May is not finished yet and we release v0.2 of Rank-R1, SOTA on BRIGHT leaderboard Shengyao Zhuang Xueguang Ma Bevan Koopman Jimmy Lin Guido Zuccon ielab update to preprint soon

📢Just 33 days left until the abstract submission deadline!