We’re proud to share that multiple papers co-authored by IRLab members have been accepted by the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR):

• Market Aware Models for Efficient Cross Market Recommendation by Samarth Bhargav, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Evangelos Kanoulas
• Contrasting Neural Click Models and Pointwise IPS Rankers by Philipp Hager, Maarten de Rijke, and Onno Zoeter
• Scene-centric vs. Object-centric Image-Text Cross-modal Retrieval: A Reproducibility Study by Mariya Hendriksen, Svitlana Vakulenko, Ernst Kuiper, and Maarten de Rijke
• Reproducing and Unifying Learned Sparse Retrieval by Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, and Andrew Yates
• Parameter-Efficient Sparse Retrievers and Rerankers using Adapters by Vaishali Pal, Carlos Lassance, Hervé Déjean, and Stéphane Clinchant
• Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference – A Preliminary Exploration of Children’s Queries by Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, and Mohammad Aliannejadi
• Improving the Generalizability of the Dense Passage Retriever Using Generated Datasets by Thilina Rajapakse and Maarten de Rijke