Accepted Papers

Event-aware Video Corpus Moment Retrieval
Danyang Hou, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Huawei Shen and Xueqi Cheng
Filtering Few-Level Segment Regions for Efficient Subsequence Search in 3D Human Motions
Andrej Černek and Jan Sedmidubsky
Contradictions in Context: Challenges for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Healthcare
Saeedeh Javadi, Sara Mirabi, Manan Gangar and Bahadorreza Ofoghi
Scalable Music Cover Retrieval Using Lyrics-Aligned Audio Embeddings
Joanne Affolter, Benjamin Martin, Elena V. Epure, Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal and Frédéric Kaplan
Starbucks: Improved Training for 2D Matryoshka Embeddings
Shengyao Zhuang, Shuai Wang, Fabio Zheng, Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon
Training-Induced Bias Toward LLM-Generated Content in Dense Retrieval
William Xion and Wolfgang Nejdl
OrLog: Resolving Complex Queries with LLMs and Probabilistic Reasoning
Mohanna Hoveyda, Jelle Piepenbrock, Arjen de Vries, Maarten de Rijke and Faegheh Hasibi
Learned Hallucination Detection in Black-Box LLMs using Token-level Entropy Production Rate
Charles Moslonka, Hicham Randrianarivo, Arthur Garnier and Emmanuel Malherbe
LLM-based Listwise Reranking under the Effect of Positional Bias
Jingfen Qiao, Jin Huang, Xinyu Ma, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Evangelos Kanoulas and Andrew Yates
RerAnchor: Anchoring Important Context in Multi-Modal Document Reranking
Tz-Huan Hsu, Sian-Yao Huang, Kuanlun Liao, Che-Yu Lin and Cheng-Lin Yang
Sample-Free Almost-Exact Estimation of Plackett-Luce Propensities for Off-Policy Ranking
Norman Knyazev and Harrie Oosterhuis
Image Complexity-Aware Adaptive Retrieval for Efficient Vision-Language Models
Mikel Williams-Lekuona and Georgina Cosma
Small Models, Big Picture! A Language Model Augmentation for Enhanced Reader-Aware Summarization
Raghvendra Kumar, A S Poornash and Sriparna Saha
From Comments to Conclusions: Adaptive Reader-Aware Summary Generation in Low-Resource Languages via Agent Debate
Raghvendra Kumar, Mohammed Salman S A, Jaya Verma and Sriparna Saha
How role-play shapes relevance judgment in zero-shot LLM rankers
Yumeng Wang, Jirui Qi, Catherine Chen, Panagiotis Eustratiadis and Suzan Verberne
Validating Search Query Simulations: A Taxonomy of Measures
Andreas Konstantin Kruff, Nolwenn Bernard and Philipp Schaer
Prompt Compression in the Wild: Measuring Latency, Rate Adherence, and Quality for Faster LLM Inference
Cornelius Kummer, Lena Jurkschat, Michael Färber and Sahar Vahdati
FACTUM: Mechanistic Detection of Citation Hallucination in Long-Form RAG
Maxime Dassen, Rebecca Kotula, Kenton Murray, Andrew Yates, Dawn Lawrie, Efsun Kayi, James Mayfield and Kevin Duh
Who Benefits from RAG? The Role of Exposure, Utility and Attribution Bias
Mahdi Dehghan and Graham McDonald
Utilizing Metadata for Better Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Raquib Bin Yousuf, Shengzhe Xu, Mandar Sharma, Andrew Neeser, Chris Latimer and Naren Ramakrishnan
Towards Quantitative Summarization Evaluation: An Integrated Atomic-Based Evaluation Framework and Dataset for Text Summarization
Yan Lei, Suncong Zheng, Roberts Wang, Liang Pang, Lei He, Shuang Chen, Wang Yu, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng and Yuanzhuo Wang
ExpertMix: Aspect and Severity Detection in Conversational Complaints
Sarmistha Das, Apoorva Singh, Rishu Kumar Singh, Navneet Shreya and Sriparna Saha
SUMMIR: A Hallucination-Aware Framework for Ranking Sports Insights from LLMs
Nitish Kumar, Sannu Kumar, S Akash, Manish Gupta, Ankith Karat and Sriparna Saha
Predicting Retrieval Utility and Answer Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Fangzheng Tian, Debasis Ganguly and Craig Macdonald
Open Web Indexes for Remote Querying
Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra and Arjen P. de Vries
From What to Why: Thought-Space Recommendation with Small Language Models
Prosenjit Biswas, Pervez Shaik, Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla and Niranjan Pedanekar
Reducing Human Effort to Validate LLM Relevance Judgements via Stratified Sampling
Simone Merlo, Stefano Marchesin, Guglielmo Faggioli and Nicola Ferro
Post-Training Denoising of User Profiles with LLMs in Collaborative Filtering Recommendation
Ervin Dervishaj, Maria Maistro, Tuukka Ruotsalo and Christina Lioma
Revealing MonoT5's Learning Mechanisms via Prompt-Token Adaptation
Marco Braga, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald and Gabriella Pasi
When Reducing Representations Improves Performance
Andrea Pasin, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Raffaele Perego and Nicola Tonellotto
Cross-Sensory Brain Passage Retrieval: Scaling Beyond Visual to Audio
Niall McGuire and Yashar Moshfeghi
Bribery-Resistant Ranking Systems: A Multipartite User-Agnostic Framework for AI Act Compliance
Martim Baltazar, Ludovico Boratto, Mirko Marras and Guilherme Ramos
An Empirical Study of Model Casing in Learned Sparse Retrieval
Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Jia-Huei Ju, Angelos Nalmpantis, Casper Thuis, Sean MacAvaney and Andrew Yates
Influential Training Data Retrieval for Explaining Verbalized Confidence of LLMs
Yuxi Xia, Loris Schoenegger and Benjamin Roth
PromptHG: Prompt-Enhanced Heterogeneous Graph for Personalized News Recommendation
Dang Kieu, Delvin Ce Zhang, Minh-Duc Nguyen, Qiang Wu, Min Xu and Dung D. Le
LURE-RAG: Lightweight Utility-driven Reranking for Efficient RAG
Manish Chandra, Debasis Ganguly and Iadh Ounis
Insider Knowledge: How Much Can RAG Systems Gain from Evaluation Secrets
Laura Dietz, Bryan Li, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, William Walden and James Mayfield
Less LLM, More Documents: Searching for Improved RAG
Jingjie Ning, Yibo Kong, Yunfan Long and Jamie Callan
RAC: Retrieval-Augmented Clarification for Faithful Conversational Search
Ahmed Rayane Kebir, Vincent Guigue, Lynda Said Lhadj and Laure Soulier
Interplay: Training Independent Simulators for Reference-Free Conversational Recommendation
Jerome Ramos, Feng Xia, Xi Wang, Shubham Chatterjee, Xiao Fu, Hossein A. Rahmani and Aldo Lipani
Improving Instruction-Aware Retrieval with Query-Preserving Regularization
Hyewon Kim and Hyun-Je Song
LANCER: LLM Reranking for Nugget Coverage
Jia-Huei Ju, François G. Landry, Eugene Yang, Suzan Verberne and Andrew Yates
Improving Conversational Recommendation with Contextual Adaptation of External Recommenders and LLM-based Reranking
Chuang Li, Yang Deng, Weida Liang, Hengchang Hu, See-Kiong Ng, Min-Yen Kan and Haizhou Li
Website Segmentation Beyond Structure: A Benchmark on Functional and Digital Maturity Classes
Jonathan Gerber, Jasmin Saxer, Andreas Weiler and Michael Grossniklaus
MemTool: Optimizing Short-Term Memory Management for Dynamic Tool Retrieval and Invocation in LLM Agent Multi-Turn Conversations
Elias Lumer
Learning Audio–Visual Embeddings with Inferred Latent Interaction Graphs
Donghuo Zeng, Hao Niu, Yanan Wang and Masato Taya
Measuring Individual User Fairness with User Similarity and Effectiveness Disparity
Theresia Veronika Rampisela, Maria Maistro, Tuukka Ruotsalo and Christina Lioma
Nested Named Entity Recognition in Plasma Physics Research Articles
Muhammad Haris, Hans Höft, Markus Becker and Markus Stocker
Exploring User Simulators in Conversational Search: A Comparison between LLMs and Humans
Lili Lu and Fabio Crestani
Query Harmfulness Prediction (QHP): a New Challenge for Safer Retrieval Systems
Xiana Carrera, Marcos Fernández-Pichel and David E. Losada
The Effect of Document Summarization on LLM-based Relevance Judgments
Samaneh Mohtadi, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro and Gianluca Demartini
Query–Document Dense Vectors for LLM Relevance Judgment Bias Analysis
Samaneh Mohtadi and Gianluca Demartini
Stop Contrasting, Start Distilling: Cross-Encoder Listwise Distillation and Synthetic Data for Dense Retrieval
Manveer Singh Tamber, Suleman Kazi, Vivek Sourabh and Jimmy Lin
Let Me Explain - Knowledge-based Retrieval Augmented Generation for Agricultural Recommendation Explanations
Daan Di Scala and Maaike de Boer
From Quotes to Concepts: Axial Coding of Political Debates with Ensemble LMs
Angelina Parfenova, David Graus and Juergen Pfeffer
Breaking Flat: A Generalised Query Performance Prediction Evaluation Framework
Payel Santra, Partha Basuchowdhuri and Debasis Ganguly
Multi-Step Semantic Reasoning in Generative Retrieval
Steven Dong, Yubao Tang and Maarten de Rijke
SSEmb: A Joint Structural and Semantic Embedding Framework for Mathematical Formula Retrieval
Ruyin Li and Xiaoyu Chen
On the Viability of Exploiting Large Language Models for Misinformation Annotation
Pablo Landrove, Marcos Fernandez-Pichel and David E. Losada
Incorporating Q&A Nuggets into Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Laura Dietz, Bryan Li, Gabrielle Liu, Jia-Huei Ju, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, William Walden and James Mayfield
Evolving Mixture of Low-Rank Experts for Continual User Modeling
Jeevan Thapa, Sinan Zhao and Koyoshi Shindo
Personalized Autocompletion of Interactions with LLM-based Chatbots
Shani Goren, Nachshon Cohen, Oren Kalinsky, Tomer Stav, Yaron Fairstein, Yuri Rapoport, Ram Yazdi, Alex Libov and Guy Kushilevitz
Evaluating Large Language Models as Domain-Specific Retrieval Agents: A Study on Cybersecurity Challenge Benchmarks
Omed Abed, Md. Samiul Haque, Patrick-Benjamin Bök and Matteo Große-Kampmann
Large Language Models as Assessors: On the Impact of Relevance Scales
Riccardo Zamolo, Riccardo Lunardi, Michael Soprano, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro and Kevin Roitero
Analyzing AI Evaluation Benchmarks Through Information Retrieval and Network Science
Gaia Simeoni, Michael Soprano, Riccardo Lunardi, Kevin Roitero and Stefano Mizzaro
Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems on Unanswerable, Uncheatable, Realistic, Multi-hop Queries
Gabrielle Liu, Bryan Li, Arman Cohan, William Walden and Eugene Yang
DARE: A Dialectical Framework for Adversarial and Evidence-Aware RAG
Saisab Sadhu, Dwaipayan Roy and Tannay Basu
Do We Still Need Text for Video Retrieval in the Era of Vision-Language Models?
Jiaqi Zhan, Xinyu Zhang, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma and Jimmy Lin
Query Performance Prediction using a Child-focused Definition of Relevance
Hrishita Chakrabarti and Maria Soledad Pera
ReFormeR: Learning and Applying Explicit Query Reformulation Patterns
Amin Bigdeli, Mert Incesu, Negar Arabzadeh, Charles L. A. Clarke and Ebrahim Bagheri
One Word is Enough: Minimal Adversarial Perturbations for Neural Text Ranking
Tanmay Karmakar, Sourav Saha, Debapriyo Majumdar and Surjyanee Halder
Text vs. Speech? Detecting Audio Deepfakes on Instagram
Karla Schäfer
MiNER: A Two-Stage Pipeline for Metadata Extraction from Municipal Meeting Minutes
Rodrigo Batista, Filipe Cunha, Purificação Silvano, Nuno Guimarães, Alípio Jorge, Evelin Amorim and Ricardo Campos
Revisiting Human-vs-LLM judgments on the TREC Podcast Track
Watheq Mansour, J. Shane Culpepper, Joel Mackenzie and Andrew Yates
Forward Index Compression for Learned Sparse Retrieval
Sebastian Bruch, Martino Fontana, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli and Rossano Venturini
LLM-Assisted Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
David Otero and Javier Parapar
Adversarial Edge Perturbation Framework in Graph-based Retrieval
Amir Khosrojerdi, Radin Hamidi Rad and Ebrahim Bagheri
Zero-Cost Multilingual Context Pruning for Retrieval-augmented Generation
Youssef Mohamed, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Thibault Formal and Nadezhda Chirkova
EmbMerge: A Transformer-based Method for Fusing CDR Lists
Mehmet Erdeniz Aydoğdu, Yağmur Duru Tüfekçioğlu, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Pinar Karagoz and Ismail Hakki Toroslu
Enhancing Attention-based Context Attribution via Token Selection and Think-Twice Mechanism
Tz-Huan Hsu, Sian-Yao Huang, Che-Yu Lin and Cheng-Lin Yang
Beyond Persuasiveness: A User-Centric Evaluation Framework of Explanations for Food Recommendation
Yurou Zhao, Yiding Sun, Ruidong Han, Fei Jiang, Wei Lin and Jiaxin Mao
Pre-trained LLMs Meet Sequential Recommenders: Efficient User-Centric Knowledge Distillation
Nikita Severin, Danil Kartushov, Vladislav Urzhumov, Vladislav Kulikov, Oksana Konovalova, Alexey Grishanov, Anton Klenitskiy, Artem Fatkulin, Alexey Vasilev, Andrey Savchenko and Ilya Makarov
Beyond Correlations: A Downstream Evaluation Framework for Query Performance Prediction
Payel Santra, Partha Basuchowdhuri and Debasis Ganguly
Trust Me on This: A User Study of Explainability for AI-Generated Responses
Weronika Łajewska and Krisztian Balog
Principled Context Engineering for RAG: Statistical Guarantees via Conformal Prediction
Debashish Chakraborty, Eugene Yang, Daniel Khashabi, Dawn Lawrie and Kevin Duh
Structure-aware Pre-Retrieval Performance Prediction on Query Affinity Graphs
Abbas Saleminezhad, Negar Arabzadeh, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Soosan Beheshti and Ebrahim Bagheri
Controlling Gender Bias in Retrieval via a Backpack Architecture
Amirabbas Afzali, Amirreza Velae, Iman Ahmadi and Mohammad Aliannejadi
Knowledge-enhanced Multi-Agent for LLM-based Recommendation
Zeyuan Meng, Zixuan Yi and Iadh Ounis
From Single to Multi-Agent Reasoning: Advancing GeneGPT for Genomics QA
Kimia Abedini, Farzad Shami and Gianmaria Silvello
Aligning Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Event Extraction with Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning
Omar Adjali, Siting Liang, Omair Shahzad Bhatti and Daniel Sonntag
Topological Metric for Unsupervised Embedding Quality Evaluation
Aleksei Shestov, Anton Klenitskiy, Daria Denisova, Amurkhan Dzagkoev, Daniil Petrovich, Andrey Savchenko and Maksim Makarenko
Generative Retrieval via Few-shot Indexing
Arian Askari, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Zhaochun Ren, Evangelos Kanoulas and Suzan Verberne
Correct but Incomplete: Why Chain-of-Thought Cannot Currently Support Auditable Reasoning
Edward Richards, Javier Sanz-Cruzado and Richard McCreadie
OmniRec: The All-In-One Solution for Reproducible and Interoperable Recommender Systems Experimentation
Lukas Wegmeth, Moritz Baumgart, Philipp Meister, Bela Gipp and Joeran Beel
GutBrainKB: Exploring the Gut–Brain Interaction through a Reliable Biomedical KB
Ornella Irrera, Marco Martinelli, Samuel Piron and Gianmaria Silvello
CancerRAGent: Evidence-Linked and Safety-Guided Oncology Question Answering
Trung Vo, An Trieu, Vu Tran, Yuji Matsumoto and Le-Minh Nguyen
Talmud-IR: A Talmud-Inspired Interface for Discussing RAG Response Quality
Wojciech Kusa, Niklas Deckers, Maik Fröbe, Laura Dietz, Birte Platow and Mark Sanderson
Enhancing Job Search Effectiveness with LLM-Powered Context-Aware Query Reformulation
Quang Hieu Vu, Behnaz Nojavanasghari, Frank Yang and Andrew Rabinovich
Pipeline Inspection, Visualization, and Interoperability in PyTerrier
Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Craig Macdonald and Sean MacAvaney
ImageSeek: A Hybrid Text-to-Image Image Retrieval System for Domain-Specific Collections
Rodrigo Duarte, Rodrigo Silva, António Branco, Hugo Proença and Ricardo Campos
LectureChat: Hybrid RAG over Wikipedia and Multilingual Lectures
Markos Dimitsas and Jochen L. Leidner
MedNuggetizer: Confidence-Based Information Nugget Extraction from Medical Documents
Gregor Donabauer, Samy Ateia, Udo Kruschwitz, Maximilian Burger, Matthias May, Christian Gilfrich, Maximilian Haas, Julio Ruben Rodas Garzaro and Christoph Eckl
SuiteEval: Simplifying Retrieval Benchmarks
Andrew Parry, Debasis Ganguly and Sean MacAvaney
CitiLink: Enhancing Municipal Transparency and Citizen Engagement through Searchable Meeting Minutes
Rodrigo Silva, José Evans, José Isidro, Miguel Marques, Afonso Fonseca, Ricardo Morais, João Canavilhas, Arian Pasquali, Purificação Silvano, Alípio Jorge, Nuno Guimarães, Sérgio Nunes and Ricardo Campos
Context Engineering for Agentic Data Science
Rishiraj Saha Roy, Chris Hinze, Luzian Hahn and Fabian Kuech
Creating Specialized RAG-Based Search Engines Using the Open Web Index
Alexander Nussbaumer, Michael Dinzinger, Sebastian Heineking, Gijs Hendriksen, Felix Holz, Saber Zerhoudi, Martin Potthast and Michael Granitzer
Affective Recommendation Through Physiological and Multimodal User Modeling
Moamen Zaher
Context-Aware Ranking in Expert Finding
Marjan Azimi
Metacognitive Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-Hop Reasoning
Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz
When Semantic Similarity Fails: Analyzing Metric Divergence in Legal RAG Evaluation
Eryclis Silva
Simulating Specific Users in Conversational Search
Lili Lu
Next Generation Audio Retrieval
Watheq Mansour
Enhancing Code Generation through Reliability-Aware Synthetic Contexts
Susmita Das
Building Resilient Users: Towards Adaptive Support for Enhanced Digital Literacy in Information Access Systems
Markus Bink
Generative Question-Answering System for identifying Experts in Academia
Sarah Nouali
Query Text and Embedding Ambiguity Correction and Optimisation
Andreas Chari
Speculative Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Faithful Question Answering in Aircraft Maintenance
Quentin Signé
Understanding and Enhancing Robustness in Dense Information Retrieval
Yongkang Li
Structured and Explainable Judicial Reasoning with LLMs
Martin Borčin
Understanding LLM Entity Representations for Efficient and Interpretable Entity Detection
Victor Morand
Evaluator - Rapid, Agile Development and Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems Without Labels
Bevan Koopman, Hang Li, Shuai Wang and Guido Zuccon
A Systematic Analysis of Chunking Strategies for Reliable Agentic Question Answering
Sofia Bennani and Charles Moslonka
Understanding Multi-Structured Documents via LLMs
Shivani Upadhyay, Messiah Ataey, Syed Shariyar Murtaza, Yifan Nie and Jimmy Lin
Exploring Neural IR in Europeana
Suhaib Basir, Mónica Marrero and Julián Urbano
Improving Search Suggestions for Alphanumeric Queries
Samarth Agrawal, Jayanth Yetukuri, Diptesh Kanojia, Qunzhi Zhou and Zhe Wu
Data Augmentation with LLMs for Cold Start Recommendation in E-Commerce
Natalija Glisovic, Martin Tegner and Danica Kragic
Display Ads Contextual Relevance Modeling with LLM Labels
Chao Gan, Fan Yang, Fangping Huang, Weijie Yuan, Nahid Anwar, Musen Wen, Konstantin Shmakov, Hong Yao and Kuang-Chih Lee
Behavioural Effects of Agentic Messaging: A Case Study on a Financial Service Application
Olivier Jeunen and Schaun Wheeler
Iterative Reranking as a Compute-Scaling Method for LLM-based Rankers
Tamara Czinczoll, Dong Liu and Filippo Betello
Accelerating Personalization Signal Learning via Synthetic Data
Daraksha Parveen, Doug Kang, Anwitha Paruchuri, Deep Kayal and Pavan Mallapragada
Fast, Compact, Dynamic Indexing for Learned Sparse Retrieval Systems
Billy Rule and Joel Mackenzie
A Systematic Reproducibility Study of BSARec for Sequential Recommendation
Jan Hutter, Hua Chang Bakker, Stan Fris, Angela Madelon Bernardy and Yuanna Liu
Down with the Hierarchy: The 'H' in HNSW Stands for "Hubs"
Blaise Munyampirwa, Vihan Lakshman and Benjamin Coleman
Multi-vector Reranking in the Era of Strong First-Stage Retrievers
Silvio Martinico, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli and Rossano Venturini
Are Multimodal Embeddings Truly Beneficial for Recommendation? A Deep Dive into Whole vs. Individual Modalities
Yu Ye, Junchen Fu, Yu Song, Kaiwen Zheng and Joemon Jose
Efficient Optimization of Hierarchical Identifiers for Generative Recommendation
Federica Valeau, Odysseas Boufalis, Polytimi Gkotsi, Joshua Rosenthal and David Vos
RecRankerEval: A Reproducible Framework for Deploying and Evaluating LLM-based Top-$k$ Recommenders
Zeyuan Meng, Zixuan Yi and Iadh Ounis
Temporal Fact Conflicts in LLMs: Reproducibility Insights from Unifying DYNAMICQA and MULAN
Ritajit Dey, Iadh Ounis, Graham McDonald and Yashar Moshfeghi
A Reproducible and Fair Evaluation of Partition-aware Collaborative Filtering
Domenico de Gioia, Claudio Pomo, Ludovico Boratto and Tommaso Di Noia
WildClaims: Conversational Information Access in the Wild(Chat)
Hideaki Joko, Shakiba Amirshahi, Charles L. A. Clarke and Faegheh Hasibi
CoRECT: A Framework for Evaluating Embedding Compression Techniques at Scale
Laura Caspari, Michael Dinzinger, Kanishka Ghosh Dastidar, Christofer Fellicious, Jelena Mitrović and Michael Granitzer
FaE: A Resource of Logs, Profiles, and Rankings for Academic Expert Finding
Marjan Azimi, Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel
GREAT: Group Recommender Evaluation and Analysis Tool
Ariel Smith, David Contreras, Maria Salamo and Ludovico Boratto
SciNUP: Natural Language User Interest Profiles for Scientific Literature Recommendation
Mariam Arustashvili and Krisztian Balog
FoodNexus: Massive Food Knowledge for Recommender Systems
Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, Mirko Marras, Giacomo Medda and Giovanni Zedda
pt-image-ir-dataset: An Image Retrieval Dataset in European Portuguese
Rodrigo Duarte, António Branco, Hugo Proença and Ricardo Campos
LISP - A Rich Interaction Dataset and Loggable Interactive Search Platform
Jana Isabelle Friese, Andreas Konstantin Kruff, Philipp Schaer, Norbert Fuhr and Nicola Ferro
UserSimCRS v2: Simulation-Based Evaluation for Conversational Recommender Systems
Nolwenn Bernard and Krisztian Balog
CitiLink-Minutes: A Multilayer Annotated Dataset of Municipal Meeting Minutes
Ricardo Campos, Ana Pacheco, Ana Fernandes, Inês Cantante, Rute Rebouças, Luís Filipe Cunha, José Isidro, José Pedro Evans, Miguel Marques, Rodrigo Batista, Evelin Amorim, Alípio Jorge, Nuno Guimarães, Sérgio Nunes, António Leal and Purificação Silvano
Evaluating the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Learned Sparse Retrieval with the lsr_benchmark
Maik Fröbe, Ferdinand Schlatt, Cosimo Rulli, Tim Hagen, Jan Heinrich Merker, Gijs Hendriksen, Carlos Lassance, Franco Maria Nardini, Rossano Venturini and Martin Potthast
ClaimPT: A Portuguese Dataset of Annotated Claims in News Articles
Ricardo Campos, Raquel Sequeira, Sara Nerea, Inês Cantante, Diogo Folques, Luís Filipe Cunha, João Canavilhas, António Branco, Alípio Jorge, Sérgio Nunes, Nuno Guimarães and Purificação Silvano
An Open SERP Mining Infrastructure for the Archive Query Log
Jan Heinrich Merker, Simon Ruth, Harrisen Scells and Martin Potthast
RoutIR: Fast Serving of Retrieval Pipelines for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield and Trevor Adriaanse
Sim4IA-Bench: A User Simulation Benchmark Suite for Next Query and Utterance Prediction
Andreas Konstantin Kruff, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Timo Breuer, Philipp Schaer and Krisztian Balog
BioGraphletQA: Knowledge-Anchored Generation of Complex Question Answering Datasets
Richard A. A. Jonker, Bárbara Maria Ribeiro de Abreu Martins and Sérgio Matos
Beyond the Click: A Framework for Inferring Cognitive Traces in Search
Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer
Towards Reliable Machine Translation: Scaling LLMs for Critical Error Detection and Safety
Muskaan Chopra, Lorenz Sparrenberg and Rafet Sifa
Bias in Book Recommendation: A Case Study on the Danish Public Libraries
Savvina Daniil, Søren Højlund Mollerup and Laura Hollink
All That Matters: Revisiting Children's Concept of Relevance in Primary School Context
Diletta Micol Tobia, Hrishita Chakrabarti, Maria Soledad Pera and Monica Landoni
One LLM to Train Them All: A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Fact-Checking
Malin Astrid Larsson, Harald Fosen Grunnaleite and Vinay Setty
Does Reasoning Make Search More Fair? Comparing Fairness in Reasoning and Non-Reasoning Rerankers
Saron Samuel, Benjamin Van Durme and Eugene Yang
Judiciously Reducing Sub-group Comparisons for Learning Intersectional Fair Representations
Clara Rus, Andrew Yates and Maarten de Rijke
Joint Modeling of Candidate and Recruiter Preferences for Fair Two-Sided Job Matching
Clara Rus, Masoud Mansoury, Andrew Yates and Maarten de Rijke
From Engagement to Empowerment: A Capability-Theoretic Rethinking of Recommender Systems
Vittoria Vineis and Gabriele Tolomei
Counterfactual Understanding via Retrieval-aware Multimodal Modeling for Time-to-Event Survival Prediction
Ha-Anh Hoang Nguyen, Tri-Duc Phan Le, Duc-Hoang Pham, Huy-Son Nguyen, Cam-Van Thi Nguyen, Duc-Trong Le and Hoang-Quynh Le
Modeling Behavioral Patterns in News Recommendations Using Fuzzy Neural Networks
Kevin Innerebner, Stephan Bartl, Markus Reiter-Haas and Elisabeth Lex
Integrating AI and IR paradigms for sustainable and trustworthy accurate access to large scale Biomedical information
Federico Borazio, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili and Francesco Labbate
Debiasing CLIP with Neural Interventions
Amelia Gómez Grabowska, Jordi Gonzalez and Lluis Gomez
Extending Logic Tensor Networks to Implicit Feedback for Representation-Aware Music Recommendation
Hannah Eckert, Oleg Lesota and Markus Schedl
Measuring Political Stance and Consistency in Large Language Models
Mucahid Kutlu, Saban Kardas, Salah Feras Alali and Mohammad Nashat Maasfeh
How Do LLMs Cite? A Mechanistic Interpretation of Attribution in RAG
Ian van Dort and Maria Heuss
How Information Retrieval Systems Construct and Amplify Immigration Narratives
Zarif Masud, Abhijit Paul, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed and Ebrahim Bagheri
AgriIR: A Scalable Framework for Domain-Specific Knowledge Retrieval
Shuvam Banerji Seal, Aheli Poddar, Alok Mishra and Dwaipayan Roy
Cultural Analytics for Good: Building Inclusive Evaluation Frameworks for Historical IR
Suchana Datta, Dwaipayan Roy, Derek Greene, Gerardine Meaney, Karen Wade and Philipp Mayr
When Attention Becomes Exposure in Generative Search
Shayan Alipour, Mehdi Kargar and Morteza Zihayat
Practical, Efficient, In-Memory Inverted Indexes
Joel Mackenzie, Sean MacAvaney, Antonio Mallia and Michal Siedlaczek
Conversational Search: Foundations, Large Language Models, and Agents
Chuan Meng, Fengran Mo, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jeff Dalton and Jian-Yun Nie
Economic Perspectives on Fairness in Information Retrieval
Chen Xu, Clara Rus, Yuanna Liu, Marleen de Jonge, Jun Xu and Maarten de Rijke
Reasoning for IR & IR for Reasoning
Mohanna Hoveyda, Panagiotis Eustratiadis, Arjen de Vries and Maarten de Rijke
Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval
Andrew Yates, Carlos Lassance, Cosimo Rulli, Eugene Yang, Sean MacAvaney, Siddharth Singh, Thong Nguyen and Yibin Lei
Tutorial on Mechanistic Interpretability
Catherine Chen, Maria Heuss and Carsten Eickhoff
Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Models
Maxim Panov, Artem Shelmanov, Roman Vashurin, Artem Vazhentsev, Ekaterina Fadeeva, Lyudmila Rvanova and Timothy Baldwin
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