Ingo FrommholzJul 19, 2025

Back from 2 1/2 weeks of intense travels to Wolverhampton (OMINO workshop and ELLIS ESSIR summer school) and then to Padua for SIGIR/ICTIR.

One of the main SIGIR/ICTIR takeaways – users of search engines will be more and more non-human. We need to consider this!

#sigir2025

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Jul 18, 2025
My slides for the #ReNeuIR workshop at #SIGIR2025 are now at: https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2025/on-the-neural-hype-and-improving-efficiency-of-sparse-retrieval/
On the Neural Hype and Improving Efficiency of Sparse Retrieval – Djoerd Hiemstra

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Jul 17, 2025
And now: The #SIGIR2025 workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
Webis GroupJul 16, 2025
Happy to share that our paper "The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation" received the Best Paper Honourable Mention at #SIGIR2025! Very grateful to the community for recognizing our work on improving RAG evaluation.  📄 webis.de/publications...
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Jul 16, 2025
The Fab Four of Information Retrieval for Children! #SIGIR2025
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Jul 16, 2025
This is horrible: Iryna Gurevych discusses the role of "AI scientists" that execute the full scientific workflow. #SIGIR2025
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Jul 15, 2025
Yubao Tang from University of Amsterdam presenting MINT RAG; and is hiring! (with Maarten de Rijke) #SIGIR2025
Maik FröbeJul 15, 2025
Lukas Gienapp presents "The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation" at #SIGIR2025 The paper is available at: webis.de/publications...
Damiano SpinaJul 15, 2025
Lucky to witness #IRRJ editor-in-chief @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy signing a copy of the first edition of @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy for Ian Soboroff, author of the paper “Don’t Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments” in the volume. #SIGIR2025 irrj.org/article/view...
Damiano SpinaJul 15, 2025
Join us at the #SIGIR2025 poster session today and check out Jiaman He’s poster #10 on “Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data” @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @jtrippas.bsky.social @danachatter.bsky.social @gtresearchnews.bsky.social