This week, ECIR 2025, the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, will be held in Lucca, Italy. The IRLab with be well-represented will the following papers and workshops:

• Papers
  • Improving the Re-Usability of Conversational Search Test Collections by Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Chuan Meng, Leif Azzopardi and Mohammad Aliannejadi
  • CUP: a Framework for Resource-Efficient Review-Based Recommenders by Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Anna Tigunova, Gerhard Weikum and Andrew Yates
  • Lost but Not Only in the Middle: Positional Bias in Retrieval Augmented Generation by Jan Hutter, David Rau, Maarten Marx and Jaap Kamps
  • PEIR: Modeling Performance in Neural Information Retrieval by Pooya Khandel, Andrew Yates, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Maarten de Rijke and Andy Pimentel
  • Reproducing HotFlip for Corpus Poisoning Attacks in Dense Retrieval by Yongkang Li, Panagiotis Eustratiadis and Evangelos Kanoulas
  • On the Robustness of Generative Information Retrieval Models: An Out-of-Distribution Perspective by Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Changjiang Zhou, Maarten de Rijke and Xueqi Cheng
  • Repeat-bias-aware Optimization of Beyond-accuracy Metrics for Next Basket Recommendation by Yuanna Liu, Ming Li, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Maarten de Rijke
  • Zero-Shot and Efficient Clarification Need Prediction in Conversational Search by Lili Lu, Chuan Meng, Federico Ravenda, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Fabio Crestani
  • Malevolence Attacks Against Pretrained Dialogue Models by Pengjie Ren, Ruiqi Li, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Maarten de Rijke, and Yangjun Zhang
  • Efficient and Effective Conversational Search with Tail Entity Selection by Hai Dang Tran, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum
  • Spoken Question Answering on Municipal Council Meetings by Pepijn van Wijk and Maarten Marx
  • Revisiting Language Models in Neural News Recommender Systems: A Reproducibility Study by Yuyue Zhao, Jin Huang, David Vos and Maarten de Rijke

• Workshops
  • QPP++ 2025: Query Performance Prediction and its Applications in the Era of Large Language Models (QPP++ 2025) organized by Chuan Meng, Guglielmo Faggioli, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nicola Ferro, Josiane Mothe
  • Workshop on Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems (Eval4RAG) organized by Eugene Yang, Ronak Pradeep, Dake Zhang, Sean MacAvaney, Maria Maistro, Mohammad Aliannejadi
  • The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR @ ECIR 2025) organized by Zihan Wang, Jinyuan Fang, Giacomo Frisoni, Zhuyun Dai, Zaiqiao Meng, Gianluca Moro, Emine Yilmaz

• Workshop presentations
  • Yixing Fan will be presenting “Large Reasoning Models” at The Second Search Futures Workshop.
  • Maria Heuss will be presenting her perspective “Beyond Citations: On Faithfulness and Trust in RAG Systems”  at The Second Search Futures Workshop.
  • Yibin Lei will be presenting “Agentic Information Retrieval: Towards Proactive Knowledge Synthesis” at The Second Search Futures Workshop.
  • Siddharth Singh will be presenting “What do you mean, information? Semantics, knowledge representation, and natural language in a world of LLM-powered search” at The Second Search Futures Workshop.
  • Yubao Tang will be presenting “Beyond Text: Integrating Multimodal Information into Generative Retrieval” at The Second Search Futures Workshop.
  • Chen Xu will be presenting “How to Balance the Needs of Stakeholders in IR Ecosystems” at The Second Search Futures Workshop.

See you at ECIR 2025!