IRRJMay 20

There will be an IRRJ special issue on ECIR: Participants of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (#ECIR2026), which took place from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, the Netherlands, are invited to submit an extended version of their ECIR 2026 paper.

The special issue will be edited by Adam Jatowt from the University of Innsbruck, Germany and Ricardo Campos from the University of Beira Interior and INESC TEC, Portugal.

Deadline: 15 July 2026.

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉May 7

The slides for my talk "Towards a shared infrastructure for assembling web search engines", presented at the #ECIR2026 #IR4Good track are now on-line at: https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2026/towards-a-shared-infrastructure-for-assembling-web-search-engines/

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/wp-content/uploads/IR4GoodOWS.pdf

Towards a shared infrastructure for assembling web search engines – Djoerd Hiemstra

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Finally, also presented at #ECIR2026: "Annotative Indexing" by Charles Clarke of the University of Waterloo: https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19910
Annotative Indexing | Information Retrieval Research

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Also presented at #ECIR2026: "A survey of Inclusive Information Access" by Yue Zheng, Haiming Liu, Mike Wald: https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.21092
A survey of Inclusive Information Access | Information Retrieval Research

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Looking back at #ECIR2026: Jaap Kamps presented the #IRRJ paper "Effectiveness of In-Context Learning for Due Diligence": https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.22626 #InformationRetrieval
Ingo FrommholzApr 3

At our SCOLIA workshop at #ECIR2026 we introduced shared tasks. UP2DATE@SCOLIA focusses on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews. Interested? Check out https://up2date.health-nlp.com!

@hscells @potthast @carsten @[email protected] @[email protected]

@ecir2026.eu

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#ECIR2026 presentation by Savvina Daniil: "On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems: The effect of data characteristics and algorithm configuration", the first paper of #IRRJ Volume 1 Number 1: https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19607
(this paper was presented at #RecSys too!)
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#ECIR2026 again: Sérgio Nunes presented the #IRRJ paper "Evaluating Dense Model-based Approaches for Multimodal Medical Case Retrieval" https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19769
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Apr 2
Thank you, @GESIS for the beautiful button! I think it looks good on me. #ECIR2026
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More #ECIR2026! Emma Gerritse presented the #IRRJ paper "Graph Embeddings to Empower Entity Retrieval"

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19877