We are happy to announce: "PhD Connect: Navigating the Journey," a one-hour SIGIR Virtual Forum event on Monday, November 13, 2023, 10 AM GMT. A platform for PhD students to connect, learn from each other, and gain insights. Moderation: Ayah Soufan 🇵🇸

We are delighted to announce "PhD Connect: Navigating the Journey," a 1-hour ACM SIGIR Virtual Forum event for PhD students. Date: Dec 8, 2023 Time: 8:30 PST / 11:30 EST / 16:30 GMT / 17:30 CET Host: Ayah Soufan 🇵🇸, Shubham Chatterjee | শুভম চ্যাটার্জী | 🇮🇳 Please register: forms.gle/JbpSrc8jXy5pxd…

We invite you to participate in the #ECIR2024 Workshop on Open Web Search. Let's discuss, develop, and promote an open web search ecosystem together! The workshop encourages submissions of scientific papers and implementations of retrieval components. opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024

How to evaluate RAG / RACAS (Retrieval-Augmented-Clustering-Augmented-Summarization) systems for Article Generation. The trick lies in constructing the right benchmark for coordinated training of multiple relevance-oriented tasks. #sigir arxiv.org/abs/2310.12361

I am very happy that we finally get to work on completing the vision of TREC CAR year 3: generating articles! Dietz, Laura, and John Foley. "Trec car y3: Complex answer retrieval overview." Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). 2019. trec-car.cs.unh.edu/results-Y3/tre…

Presenting Coarse and Fine grained Forecasting! We Boost forecasting with end-to-end training a blur model which fosters a separation of concerns between the forecasting and denoise models. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.14280… Code and Package: github.com/SepKfr/Fine_gr… #Forecasting

SIGIR VF Presents "LLM Reasoners" Join us to learn about #LLM #Reasoning 👉REGISTRATION Here:  forms.gle/52ZYmscHrKsz2Q… (Free of Charge) Shibo Hao Negar Arabzadeh Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ ACM SIGIR SIGIR 2025 Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র L. Dietz @[email protected] @[email protected] Charlie Clarke Leo Boytsov

Five giveaways of AI-generated reviews 1. are no comments that are specific about the paper. 2. "lacks a details theoretical foundation: 3. "related work is limited" 4. "no limitations of the approach" 5. "expand section X & Y" Deja vue? Example: chat.openai.com/share/6a9fdea0…

"Who Determines What Is Relevant? Humans or AI? Why Not Both?," by Guglielmo Faggioli, @LauraDietz99, @CLAClarke, Gianluca Demartini, @Matthias_Hagen, Claudia Hauff 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇩🇪 🇳🇱, Noriko Kando, @EKanou, @MartinPotthast, Benno Stein, & Henning Wachsmuth, on relevance decisions by #LLMs. bit.ly/43pYa0G

SIGIR VF Presents "Quantum Natural Language Processing" Join us to learn about practical applications of Quantum Methods in IR/NLP 👉REGISTER:  forms.gle/BSdaLTrceiiwKf… (Free of Charge) Negar Arabzadeh Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ ACM SIGIR SIGIR 2025 Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র L. Dietz @[email protected] @[email protected] Charlie Clarke Leo Boytsov

I loved the 9 minute talk format at #ictir2024 --- it kept speakers down to the point and audience listening

Thrilled by the interest we received about our RUBRIC evaluation method at #ictir2024 RUBRIC seeds query-specific grading rubrics, but human judges define what is relevant. Our Autograder Workbench provides tools to diagnose and refine these rubrics. More in W1.3 of #SIGIR2024