Bhaskar MitraCongratulations to all recipients of the best paper award, best paper runner up award, and outstanding reviewers awards presented at the SIGIR-AP 2025 banquet last night. #SIGIRAP2025
After months of hard work from so many people, super excited to welcome everyone to SIGIR-AP 2025 at the conference opening today. #SIGIRAP2025
Tetsuya SakaiTetsuya Sakai: SimPD: Comparing Two Ranked Lists based on Promotion and Demotion Magnitudes, ACM SIGIR-AP 2025, to appear, 2025.
Preprint: https://waseda.box.com/sigirap2025simpd
Damiano SpinaThe pre-print of our #SIGIRAP2025 paper titled "ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments" is now available arxiv.org/abs/2510.07644
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ISMIE: A Framework to Characte...
ISMIE: A Framework to Characte...
ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments
The modern information environment (MIE) is increasingly complex, shaped by a wide range of techniques designed to satisfy users' information needs. Information seeking (IS) models are effective mechanisms for characterizing user-system interactions. However, conceptualizing a model that fully captures the MIE landscape poses a challenge. We argue: Does such a model exist? To address this, we propose the Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments (ISMIE) framework as a fundamental step. ISMIE conceptualizes the information seeking process (ISP) via three key concepts: Components (e.g., Information Seeker), Intervening Variables (e.g., Interactive Variables), and Activities (e.g., Acquiring). Using ISMIE's concepts and employing a case study based on a common scenario - misinformation dissemination - we analyze six existing IS and information retrieval (IR) models to illustrate their limitations and the necessity of ISMIE. We then show how ISMIE serves as an actionable framework for both characterization and experimental design. We characterize three pressing issues and then outline two research blueprints: a user-centric, industry-driven experimental design for the authenticity and trust crisis to AI-generated content and a system-oriented, academic-driven design for tackling dopamine-driven content consumption. Our framework offers a foundation for developing IS and IR models to advance knowledge on understanding human interactions and system design in MIEs.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCT 6!
BREV-RAG (Beyond Relevance-based EValuation of RAG systems) workshop@SIGIR-AP 2025
The review outcomes is not a reflection on the quality of your research. Independent of any outcomes, all of you (authors and program committee members) have collectively pushed the field forward with your hard work. So, let's celebrate that together as a community! 🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to authors who had their paper accepted at the conference and solidarity with authors whose papers had less favorable outcomes. In spite of our best efforts to ensure quality reviewing, please remember that there is always stochasticity in the reviewing process.
SIGIR-AP paper notifications have been sent out earlier today. A huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, and meta-reviewers for all their hard work to create an exciting scientific program for the conference this year.
⏰ Gentle reminder: The abstract submission deadline for #SIGIRAP2025 is **tomorrow**.
Call for papers: https://www.sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2025/call-for-papers
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Nice, #SIGIRAP2025 fully supports remote participations! #HybridConference
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