The IRLab will be well represented at SIGIR 2025, in Padova, Italy, with a solid number of papers, workshops, tutorials, and publications at satellite events and workshops.

• Papers in the main conference
  • Conversational Gold: Evaluating Personalized Conversational Search Systems using Gold Nuggets by Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Simon Lupart, Leif Azzopardi, Jeff Dalton, and Mohammad Aliannejadi
  • Reproducing NevIR: Negation in Neural Information Retrieval by Coen van den Elsen, Francien Barkhof, Thijmen Nijdam, Simon Lupart, and Mohammad Aliannejadi
  • Benchmark Granularity and Model Robustness for Image-Text Retrieval: A Reproducibility Study by Mariya Hendriksen, Shuo Zhang, Ridho Reinanda, Mohamed Yahya, Edgar Meij, and Maarten de Rijke
  • Explaining Ranking Decisions through a Listwise SHAP Explainer by Maria Heuss, Maarten de Rijke, and Avishek Anand
  • Adaptive Orchestration of Modular Generative Information Access Systems by Mohanna Hoveyda, Harrie Oosterhuis, Arjen de Vries, Maarten de Rijke, and Faegheh Hasibi
  • RecGaze: The First Eye Tracking and User Interaction Dataset for Carousel Interfaces by Santiago de Leon-Martinez, Jingwei Kang, Robert Moro, Maarten de Rijke, Branislav Kveton, Harrie Oosterhuis, and Maria Bielikova
  • Unsupervised Corpus Poisoning Attacks in Continuous Space for Dense Retrieval by Yongkang Li, Panagiotis Eustratiadis, Simon Lupart, and Evangelos Kanoulas
  • On the Scaling of Robustness and Effectiveness in Dense Retrieval by Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng
  • DiSCo: LLM Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Sparse Retrieval in Conversational Search by Simon Lupart, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Evangelos Kanoulas
  • Lightweight and Direct Document Relevance Optimization for Generative Information Retrieval by Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Yubao Tang, and Maarten de Rijke
  • Bridging the Gap: From Ad-hoc to Proactive Search in Conversations by Chuan Meng, Francesco Tonolini, Fengran Mo, Nikolaos Aletras, Emine Yilmaz, and Gabriella Kazai
  • Beyond Reproducibility: Advancing Zero-shot LLM Reranking Efficiency with Setwise Insertion by Jakub Podolak, Leon Peric, Mina Janicijevic, and Roxana Petcu
  • Reproducibility, Replicability, and Insights into Visual Document Retrieval with Late Interaction by Jingfen Qiao, Jiahui Ju, Xinyu Ma, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Andrew Yates
  • Interpreting Multilingual and Document-Length Sensitive Relevance Computations in Neural Retrieval Models through Axiomatic Causal Interventions by Oliver Savolainen, Dur e Najaf Amjad, and Roxana Petcu
  • Boosting Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Generation-Augmented Retrieval: A Co-Training Approach by Yubao Tang, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng
  • Information Leakage of Sentence Embeddings via Generative Embedding Inversion Attacks by Antonios Tragoudaras, Theofanis Aslanidis, Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Marina Orozco González, and Panagiotis Eustratiadis
  • Constrained Auto-Regressive Decoding Constrains Generative Retrieval by Shiguang Wu, Zhaochun Ren, Xin Xin, Jiyuan Yang, Mengqi Zhang, Zhumin Chen, Maarten de Rijke, and Pengjie Ren
  • An Empirical Study of Evaluating Long-form Question Answering by Ning Xian, Yixing Fan, Ruqing Zhang, Maarten de Rijke, and Jiafeng Guo
  • FairDiverse: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Fairness- and Diversity-aware Information Retrieval by Chen Xu, Zhirui Deng, Clara Rus, Xiaopeng Ye, Yuanna Liu, Jun Xu, Zhicheng Dou, Ji-Rong Wen, and Maarten de Rijke
  • Understanding Accuracy-Fairness Trade-offs in Re-ranking through Elasticity in Economics by Chen Xu, Jujia Zhao, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, Tat-Seng Chua, and Maarten de Rijke
  • Replication and Exploration of Generative Retrieval over Dynamic Corpora by Zhen Zhang, Xinyu Ma, Weiwei Sun, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Maarten de Rijke, and Zhaochun Ren
  • Improving Sequential Recommenders through Counterfactual Augmentation of System Exposure by Ziqi Zhao, Zhaochun Ren, Jiyuan Yang, Zuming Yan, Zihan Wang, Liu Yang, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Maarten de Rijke, and Xin Xin
  • PSCon: Product Search Through Conversations by Jie Zou, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Evangelos Kanoulas, Shuxi Han, Heli Ma, Zheng Wang, Yang Yang, and Heng Tao Shen

• Papers in satellite events and workshops
  • Personalized Conversational Search: Evaluation and Method by Zahra Abbasiantaeb (SIGIR 2025 Doctoral Consortium)

• Tutorials
  • Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the LLM Era by Fengran Mo, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Jian-Yun Nie
  • Fairness in Information Retrieval from an Economic Perspective by Chen Xu, Clara Rus, Yuanna Liu, Marleen de Jonge, Jun Xu, and Maarten de Rijke

• Workshops
  • MANILA25: SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact co-organized by Bart van den Hurk, Maarten de Rijke, and Flora D. Salim
  • LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR co-organized by Clemencia Siro, Hossein A. Rahmani, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, and Emine Yilmaz
  • Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval co-organized by Maria Heuss, Catherine Chen, Avishek Anand, Carsten Eickhoff, and Suzan Verberne