This week, ECIR 2023: The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval is taking place in Dublin. The IRLab is well-represented:
- Friday, March 31 (Virtual day)
- Lila Boualili will be presenting A Study of Term-Topic Embeddings for Ranking, which is joint work with IRLab-er Andrew Yates
- Sunday, April 2
- Evangelos Kanoulas is co-organizing the first international workshop on Legal Information Retrieval
- Evangelos Kanoulas is also co-organizing the second workshop on Augmented Intelligence in Technology-assisted Review Systems
- Monday, April 3
- Mounia Lalmas will be giving a keynote on Personalization at Spotify
- Thilina Rajapakse will be presenting Improving the Generalizability of the Dense Passage Retriever Using Generated Datasets
- Samarth Bhargav will be presenting Market-Aware Models for Efficient Cross Market Recommendation
- Former IRLab-er Hosein Azarbonyad will be presenting Generating Topic Pages for Scientific Concepts Using Scientific Publications
- Tuesday, April 4
- Maria Soledad Pera will be presenting Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference – A Preliminary Exploration of Children’s Queries, which is joint work with IRLab-er Mohammad Aliannejadi
- Maik Larooij will be presenting Enticing local governments to produce FAIR freedom of information act dossiers, which is joint work with IRLab-er Maarten Marx
- Wednesday, April 5
- Philipp Hager will be presenting Contrasting Neural Click Models and Pointwise IPS Rankers
- Vaishali Pal will be presenting Parameter-Efficient Sparse Retrievers and Rerankers using Adapters
- Thong Nguyen will be presenting Reproducing and Unifying Learned Sparse Retrieval Methods
- Mariya Hendriksen will be presenting Scene-centric vs. Object-centric Image-Text Cross-modal Retrieval: A Reproducibility Study
- Thursday, April 6
- Chuan Meng will be presenting Performance Prediction for Conversational Search Using Perplexities of Query Rewrites in the QPP++ workshop
