Djoerd Hiemstra πExcellent ad by the University of Padua, which will host #SIGIR in Padua from 13 to 18 July 2025. #SIGIR2024 #SIGIR2025
Maik FrΓΆbeNow its time for me to leave Washington. I had a super cool week at #SIGIR2024! I look already forward to next year in Italy π
Bhaskar MitraHad really fun time presenting the first keynote titled "Bias and Beyond: On Generative AI and the Future of Search and Society" at the #BIAS2024 workshop at #SIGIR2024 earlier today. Lots of engaging questions and discussions from the attendees.
Bias and Beyond: On Generative AI and the Future of Search and Society
Bias and Beyond: On Generative AI and the Future of Search and Society - Download as a PDF or view online for free
Honored to receive the ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Awards for excellence in (i) Research and (ii) Community Engagement.
https://sigir.org/awards/sigir-ecr-awards/
Tomorrow I'll give the opening keynote at the BIAS workshop at 9:10am. Hope to see you there!
https://biasinrecsys.github.io/sigir2024/ #SIGIR2024
Lesley FrewGulam Shakir, Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer at National Archives and Records Administration, talks about detecting personally identifiable information with AI - but they found PII in embedded images (compressed) in powerpoint files. #sigir2024
Arjen P. de Vries Timmers ποΈMore great news from #SIGIR2024 :
Not "just" one but TWO of our Radboud Assistant Professors in information retrieval have received a very special recognition by #SIGIR in the form of an Early Career Award:
Harrie Oosterhuis and Faegheh Hasibi
So proud of our IR research group!!
Many congratulations with this special honour! We knew you are special, but now it is official :-)
The SIGIR Exec at work at the #SIGIR2024 Business lunch.
Agenda items include:
Elections next year, so please consider volunteering. ACM Open. Budget (back to prep pandemic healthiness). Upcoming conferences (July 13-18 2025 in beautiful Padua!).
A very fun (!) reveal video:
SIGIR 2026 in Melbourne, Australia (in July...)!
Bids for 50th SIGIR, 2027, from Toronto, Silicon Valley, and an original "anywhere in North America" bid by @dietz and Bhaskar Mitra.
Tuesday's personal highlights of #SIGIR2024 include the keynote by Thorsten Joachims https://sigir-2024.github.io/keynotes.html#joachims in three parts:
1. coactive learning for tasks like writing assistance,
2. the idea to build on control theory for long term objectives ("macro-economic"), and
3. user profiles as text, for personalising LLMs, Eg see REBEL by Gao et al., 2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16767
Very well delivered and inspiring talk.
What's happening at #SIGIR2024 today, people?
Harrie Oosterhuis spreading the news about the continuation of IRJ under the new flag:
Information Retrieval Research Journal
https://irrj.org
Lead by @djoerd with the complete support of the IRJ founders and many prior board members. Submit your work!!
