At ICTIR 2025, the 11th ACM SIGIR / 15th International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval, held on July 18, 2025 as part of SIGIR 2025, two author teams with IRLab-ers received an ICTIR Best Paper Honorable Mention:

• Jingwei Kang, Maarten de Rijke, Santiago de Leon-Martinez, and Harrie Oosterhuis – Rethinking Click Models in Light of Carousel Interfaces: Theory-Based Categorization and Design of Click Models.

and

• Jonas Wallat, Maria Heuss, Maarten de Rijke, and Avishek Anand – Correctness is not Faithfulness in Retrieval Augmented Generation Attributions.

Congratulations to both teams!