We are excited to announce the presentations given by IRLab members at the upcoming edition of SIGIR in Washington, D.C., USA. Please come and attend our presentations and talk to us. The schedule for our presentations is:

• Saturday, July 13, 2024 (Room Federal B, 13:00-15:00)
  • Distillation vs. Sampling for Efficient Training of Learning to Rank Models by Pooya Khandel, Andrew Yates, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu, Maarten de Rijke, and Andy D. Pimentel (ICTIR 2024)

• Sunday, July 14, 2024 (Room Federal A, 9:00-17:00)
  • Query Performance Prediction for Conversational Search and Beyond by Chuan Meng
• Sunday, July 14, 2024 (Room South American B, 9:00-12.30)
  • Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval by Yubao Tang, Ruqing Zhang, Zhaochun Ren, Jiafeng Guo, and Maarten de Rijke
• Sunday, July 14, 2024 (Room South American A, 13.30-17:00)
  • Robust Information Retrieval by Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, and Maarten de Rijke

• Monday, July 15, 2024 (Room Federal A, 10:30-12:30)
  • Ranked List Truncation for Large Language Model-based Re-Ranking by Chuan Meng, Negar Arabzadeh, Arian Askari, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maarten de Rijke
• Monday, July 15, 2024 (Room New York, 10:30-12:30)
  • Going Beyond Popularity and Positivity Bias: Correcting for Multifactorial Bias in Recommender Systems by Jin Huang, Harrie Oosterhuis, Masoud Mansoury, Herke van Hoof, and Maarten de Rijke
• Monday, July 15, 2024 (Room Federal B, 14:45-15:45)
  • Negative Sampling Techniques for Dense Passage Retrieval in a Multilingual Setting by Thilina Rajapakse, Andrew Yates and Maarten de Rijke
• Monday, July 15, 2024 (Room Federal A, 16:00-17:30)
  • iKAT: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants by Mohammad Aliannejadi, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton and Leif Azzopardi
• Monday, July 15, 2024 (Room South American B, 16:00-17:30)
  • Are We Really Achieving Better Beyond-Accuracy Performance in Next Basket Recommendation? by Ming Li, Yuanna Liu, Sami Jullien, Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, Andrew Yates, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Maarten de Rijke

• Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (Room South American B, 10:30-12:30)
  • Evaluating the Robustness of Click Models to Policy Distributional Shift by Romain Deffayet, Jean-Michel Renders, and Maarten de Rijke
• Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (Room South American B, 13:30-15:00)
  • Multi-granular Adversarial Attacks against Black-box Neural Ranking Models by Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng
• Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (Room Statler A&B, 13:30-15:00)
  • Large Language Models for Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation by Peibo Li, Maarten de Rijke, Hao Xue, Shuang Ao, Yang Song, and Flora D. Salim
• Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (Room Federal B, 13:30-15:00)
  • Let Me Do It For You: Towards LLM Empowered Recommendation via Tool Learning by Yuyue Zhao, Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang, Wei Tang, Dingxian Wang, and Maarten de Rijke
• Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (Room Senate, 15:30-17:30)
  • The Impact of Group Membership Bias on the Quality and Fairness of Exposure in Ranking by Ali Vardasbi, Maarten de Rijke, Fernando Diaz, and Mostafa Dehghani
• Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (Room Senate, 15:30-17:30)
  • Unbiased Learning to Rank Meets Reality: Lessons from Baidu’s Large-Scale Search Dataset by Philipp Hager, Romain Deffayet, Jean-Michel Renders, Onno Zoeter and Maarten de Rijke

• Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (Room Federal A & Federal B, 10:30-12:30)
  • Generative Retrieval as Multi-Vector Dense Retrieval by Shiguang Wu, Wenda Wei, Mengqi Zhang, Zhumin Chen, Jun Ma, Zhaochun Ren, Maarten de Rijke, and Pengjie Ren
• Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (Room South American B, 10:30-12:30)
  • Are Large Language Models Good at Utility Judgments? by Hengran Zhang, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Maarten de Rijke, Yixing Fan, and Xueqi Cheng
• Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (South American B, 10:30-12:30)
  • Rethinking the Evaluation of Dialogue Systems: Effects of User Feedback on Crowdworkers and LLMs by Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maarten de Rijke
• Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (Room Presidential Ballroom, 14:00-17:30)
  • Fostering University-Society Collaborations by Maarten de Rijke
• Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (Room Congressional Ballroom, 14:00-17:30)
  • Estimating the Hessian Matrix of Ranking Objectives for Stochastic Learning to Rank with Gradient Boosted Trees by Jingwei Kang, Maarten de Rijke, and Harrie Oosterhuis

• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room Federal A, 9:00-17:00)
  • Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR (LLM4Eval) by Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, and Emine Yilmaz
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room Federal A, 9:00-17:00)
  • A Novel Evaluation Framework for Image2Text Generation by Jia-Hong Huang, Hongyi Zhu, Yixian Shen, Stevan Rudinac, Alessio M. Pacces, and Evangelos Kanoulas
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room Federal A, 9:00-17:00)
  • Context Does Matter: Implications for Crowdsourced Evaluation Labels in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems by Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maarten de Rijke
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room Federal A, 9:00-17:00)
  • Can We Use Large Language Models to Fill Relevance Judgment Holes? by Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Chuan Meng, Leif Azzopardi, and Mohammad Aliannejadi
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room Federal A, 9:00-17:00)
  • Query Performance Prediction using Relevance Judgments Generated by Large Language Model by Chuan Meng, Negar Arabzadeh, Arian Askari, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maarten de Rijke
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room Federal A, 9:00-17:00)
  • A Comparative Analysis of Faithfulness Metrics and Humans in Citation Evaluation by Weijia Zhang, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jiahuan Pei, Yifei Yuan, Jia-Hong Huang, and Evangelos Kanoulas
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room South American B, 9:00-17:00)
  • The Second Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR@SIGIR24) by Gabriel Bénédict, Donald Metzler, Ruqing Zhang, Andrew Yates, and Ziyan Jiang
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room Ohio, 9:00-17:00)
  • The First Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval (AgentIR) by Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Ling Pan, Xin Xin, Jin Huang, Weinan Zhang, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, and Grace Hui Yang
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room California, 9:00-17:00)
  • The 2024 SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce (eCom24) by Surya Kallumadi, Yubin Kim, Tracy King, Maarten de Rijke, and Vamsi Salaka
• Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Room Continental, 8:45-12:45)
  • First SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact (MANILA24) by Bart van den Hurk, Maarten de Rijke, and Flora Salim