The IRLab will be well represented at this year’s SIGIR, to be held in Taipei, Taiwan, in July, with a number of papers, tutorials, and workshops:

• Papers
  • Samarth Bhargav, Anne Schuth, and Claudia Hauff. When the Music Stops: Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval for Music
  • Jiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Yiqun Liu, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng. A Unified Generative Retriever for Knowledge-Intensive Language Tasks via Prompt Learning
  • Romain Deffayet, Philipp Hager, Jean-Michel Renders, and Maarten de Rijke. An Offline Metric for the Debiasedness of Click Models
  • Negin Ghasemi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Bonab, Evangelos Kanoulas, Arjen de Vries, James Allan, Djoerd Hiemstra. Cross-Market E-Commerce Question Answering by Jointly Ranking Questions and Products
  • Shashank Gupta, Harrie Oosterhuis, and Maarten de Rijke. Safe Deployment for Counterfactual Learning to Rank with Exposure-Based Risk Minimization
  • Pooya Khandel. Large-Scale Data Processing for Information Retrieval Applications
  • Dan Li and Maarten de Rijke. Extending Label Aggregation Models with a Gaussian Process to Denoise Crowdsourcing Labels
  • Ming Li, Ali Vardasbi, Andrew Yates, and Maarten de Rijke. Repetition and Exploration in Sequential Recommendation: A Reproducibility Study
  • Yuan Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Wei Chen, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng. Topic-oriented Adversarial Attacks against Black-box Neural Ranking Models
  • Chuan Meng, Negar Arabzadeh, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maarten de Rijke. Query Performance Prediction: From Ad-hoc to Conversational Search
  • Thong Nguyen, Sean MacAvaney, and Andrew Yates. Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for Long Documents
  • Paul Owoicho, Ivan Sekulic, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jeffery Dalton and Fabio Crestani. Exploiting Simulated User Feedback for Conversational Search: Ranking, Rewriting, and Beyond
  • Thilina Rajapakse. Dense Passage Retrieval: Architectures and Augmentation Methods
  • Fatemeh Sarvi, Ali Vardasbi, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Sebastian Schelter, and Maarten de Rijke. On the Impact of Outlier Bias on User Clicks
  • Sebastian Schelter, Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, and Maarten de Rijke. Forget Me Now: Fast and Exact Unlearning in Neighborhood-based Recommendation
  • Clemencia Siro. Evaluating Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Users
  • Xin Xin, Xiangyuan Liu, Hanbing Wang, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Jiahuan Lei, Xinlei Shi, Hengliang Luo, Joemon Jose, Maarten de Rijke, and Zhaochun Ren. Improving Implicit Feedback-Based Recommendation through Multi-Behavior Alignment

• Tutorials
  • Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, Ming Li, Sami Jullien and Maarten de Rijke. Complex Item Set Recommendation
  • Shashank Gupta, Philipp Hager, Jin Huang, Ali Vardasbi and Harrie Oosterhuis. Recent Advances in the Foundations and Applications of Unbiased Learning to Rank

• Workshops
  • Gabriel Bénédict, Ruqing Zhang, and Donald Metzler. Generative Information Retrieval
  • Surya Kallumadi, Yubin Kim, Tracy Holloway King, Shervin Malmasi, Maarten de Rijke, and Jacopo Tagliabue. SIGIR eCom 2023