- We are at SIGIR 2022 next week. IRLab members have a number of presentations at the conference. Please come and attend our presentations and talk to us. The schedule for our presentations is:
- Thursday, July 7 (Online):
- Guojun Yan, Jiahuan Pei, Pengjie Ren, Zhaochun Ren, Xin Xin, Huasheng Liang, Maarten de Rijke and Zhumin Chen present their paper ReMeDi: Resources for Multi-domain, Multi-service, Medical Dialogue.
- Monday, July 11 (Onsite):
- Ruben van Heusden, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten Marx will present their paper WooIR: a New Open Page Stream Segmentation Dataset at ICTIR 2022
- Ana Lucic, Maurits Bleeker, Maarten de Rijke, Koustuv Sinha, Sami Jullien, and Robert Stojnic will present a tutorial on Towards Reproducible Machine Learning Research in Information Retrieval.
- Tuesday, July 12 (Onsite):
- Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, Sami Jullien, Ming Li, Min Fang, Sebastian Schelter and Maarten de Rijke will present their paper ReCANet: A Repeat Consumption-Aware Neural Network for Next Basket Recommendation in Grocery Shopping.
- Ruben van Heusden, Jaap Kamps and Maarten Marx will present their paper BCubed Revisited: Elements Like Me at ICTIR 2022
- Georgios Sidiropoulos and Evangelos Kanoulas will present their paper Analysing the Robustness of Dual Encoders for Dense Retrieval Against Misspellings.
- Jie Zou, Evangelos Kanoulas, Pengjie Ren, Zhaochun Ren, Aixin Sun and Cheng Long will present their paper Improving Conversational Recommender Systems via Transformer-based Sequential Modelling.
- Wednesday, July 13 (Onsite):
- Svitlana Vakulenko, Evangelos Kanoulas and Maarten de Rijke will present their paper A Large Scale Analysis of Mixed Initiative in Information-Seeking Dialogues for Conversational Search.
- Jin Huang, Harrie Oosterhuis, Bunyamin Cetinkaya, Thijs Rood and Maarten de Rijke will present their paper State Encoders in Reinforcement Learning for Recommendation: A Reproducibility Study.
- Mengxue Zhao, Yang Yang, Miao Li, Jingang Wang, Wei Wu, Pengjie Ren, Maarten de Rijke and Zhaochun Ren will present their paper Personalized Abstractive Opinion Tagging.
- Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Maarten de Rijke will present their paper Understanding User Satisfaction with Task-oriented Dialogue Systems.
- Antonios Minas Krasakis, Andrew Yates and Evangelos Kanoulas will present their paper Zero-shot Query Contextualization for Conversational Search.
- Zhi Tian, Zhaochun Ren, Dongdong Li, Pengjie Ren, Liu Yang, Xin Xin, Huasheng Liang, Maarten de Rijke and Zhumin Chen will present their paper Variational Reasoning about User Preferences for Conversational Recommendation.
- Hossein A. Rahmani, Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei, Mahdi Dehghan and Mohammad Aliannejadi will present their paper Experiments on Generalizability of User-Oriented Fairness in Recommender Systems.
- Thursday, July 14 (Onsite):
- Ali Vardasbi, Fatemeh Sarvi and Maarten de Rijke will present their paper Probabilistic Permutation Graph Search: Black-Box Optimization for Fairness in Ranking.
- Maria Heuss, Fatemeh Sarvi and Maarten de Rijke will present their paper Fairness of Exposure in Light of Incomplete Exposure Estimation.
- Maarten de Rijke will be in a panel on Disinformation, Malinformation, Misinformation
- Friday, July 15 (Onsite):
- Ajinkya Kale, Surya Kallumadi, Tracy Holloway King, Shervin Malmasi, Maarten de Rijke, and Jacopo Tagliabue will conduct a workshop on eCom ’22: The SIGIR 2022 Workshop on eCommerce.
- Svitlana Vakulenko, Ondrej Dusek, Leigh Clark, Gustavo Penha, Vaishali Pal and Vaibhav Adlakha will conduct a workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI).
- Phillip Lippe, Pengjie Ren, Hinda Haned, Bart Voorn, and Maarten de Rijke will present their paper Simultaneously Improving Utility and User Experience in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems at the eCom’22 workshop.
