Goodbye Washington! We had a fantastic week with interesting talks, discussions, and new ideas at #SIGIR24 #SIGIR2024. We hope to see you all again next year in Italy :)

📢📢 RAG 2024 topics are officially now released! Check the website for the released topics (301 in total): trec-rag.github.io/annoucements/2… Let the games begin & please share and RT! 🤗 #TREC2024 #RAG

Jan Heinrich Merker presented our short paper at #ArgMining2024 at #ACL2024 today. We proposed to add "semantics" to lexical retrieval models for argument retrieval. w/ Matthias Hagen, Maik Fröbe, Danik Hollatz. Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.argmining…

Great presentation about RAG in biomedical domain Jan Heinrich Merker #CLEF2024 #BIOASQ2024

Maik Fröbe Great talk on the Team OpenWebSearch.eu @[email protected]'s submission to the QuantumCLEF shared task on how to exploit #QuantumComputing for feature selection in IR 👍 Exciting new direction of IR research at #CLEF2024 #QuantumCLEF2024

Celebrating 25 years of CLEF with nice people! #CLEF2024 Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz Víctor Yeste Estrella15 Alba María Javier Parapar Andreu Casamayor

Jan Heinrich Merker talks about how web search results of different quality influence decision-making #CLEF2024

Follow-up on our #BIOASQ2024 submission: We actually submitted the best approach for some of the tasks 👍 Looking forward to further improving Medical RAG! #CLEF2024

IR legend Sean MacAvaney on stage at #haystackconf on re-thinking re-ranking. Representing Glasgow IR Group

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

Happy to share our framework for fine-tuning and running neural ranking models, Lightning IR, was accepted as a demo at #WSDM25 🥳 Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2411.04677 Code: github.com/webis-de/light… Docs: webis.de/lightning-ir A quick rundown of Lightning IR's main features:

💥 Next set of results from the TREC 2024 RAG Track! We've automated the nugget evaluation methodology using LLMs and obtained a strong correlation between automatic metrics and metrics derived from human annotations. arxiv.org/abs/2411.09607

Not leaving quite yet, but I’m finding my Bluesky feed less noisy and more enjoyable. Martin Potthast created a starter pack with some members of the IR community, which we hope it keeps growing! go.bsky.app/MXPJoTn

The fourth edition of the ReNeuIR workshop will be co-located with ACM SIGIR in Padua (IT) in July 2025. See you all in Italy.

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

Hello TREC-ToTers! 👋🏽 Excited to announce the release of TREC 2025 Tip-of-the-Tongue (TREC-ToT) Track guidelines: trec-tot.github.io/guidelines. We will release test queries in July and run submission deadline will be in August. #TRECToT #TREC2025ToT Please register to participate:

Please share the word and register to participate! #TREC2025ToT

Due to many requests, ReNeuIR @ #SIGIR2025 paper deadline has been extended to June 10!!!

Do not forget to participate in the #TREC2025 Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Track :) The corpus and baselines (with run files) are now available and easily accessible via the ir_datasets API and the HuggingFace Datasets API. More details are available at: trec-tot.github.io/guidelines

Hello TREC-ToTers! 👋🏽 📆 Good news! We are extending the run submission deadline by 2 weeks. Please submit your runs by **September 10 (Wednesday)** and spread the word. More info: trec-tot.github.io/guidelines #TREC2025 #TRECToT #TREC2025ToT