We have given a Best Short Paper Award starting from the SIGIR Conference 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Prior that, we used to have Best Poster Awards given until 1999. Since 2019, the SIGIR Best Short Paper Award is an official ACM Award.
| Year | Authors | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alireza Salemi Hamed Zamani |
Evaluating Retrieval Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation |
| 2023 | Weize Kong Jeffrey M. Dudek Cheng Li Mingyang Zhang Michael Bendersky |
SparseEmbed: Learning Sparse Lexical Representations with Contextual Embeddings for Retrieval |
| 2022 | Hansi Zeng Hamed Zamani Vishwa Vinay |
Curriculum Learning for Dense Retrieval Distillation |
| 2021 | Xuanang Chen Ben He Kai Hui Yiran Wang Le Sun Yingfei Sun |
Contextualized Offline Relevance Weighting for Efficient and Effective Neural Retrieval |
| 2020 | Shi Yu Jiahua Liu Jingqin Yang Chenyan Xiong Paul Bennett Jianfeng Gao Zhiyuan Liu |
Few-Shot Generative Conversation Query Rewriting |
| 2019 | Theodore Vasiloudis Hyunsu Cho Henrik Boström |
Block-distributed Gradient Boosted Trees |
| 2019 | Wei Yang Kuang Lu Peilin Yang Jimmy Lin |
(Honourable Mention) Critically Examining the “Neural Hype”: Weak Baselines and the Additivity of Effectiveness Gains from Neural Ranking Models |
| 2018 | Daniel Cohen Bhaskar Mitra Katja Hofmann W. Bruce Croft |
Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models using Adversarial Learning |
| 2018 | Mengyang Liu Yiqun Liu Jiaxin Mao Cheng Luo Shaoping Ma |
(Honourable Mention) Towards Designing Better Session Search Evaluation Metrics |
| 2017 (first year of award) |
Michael R. Evans Dragomir Yankov Pavel Berkhin Pavel Yudin Florin Teodorescu Wei Wu |
LiveMaps – Converting Map Images into Interactive Maps |
| 2017 (first year of award) |
Faegheh Hasibi Fedor Nikolaev Chenyan Xiong Krisztian Balog Svein Erik Bratsberg Alexander Kotov Jamie Callan |
(Honorable Mention) DBpedia-Entity v2: A Test Collection for Entity Search |
| 1998 | Ming-Jer Lee Lee-Feng Chien |
Automatic acquisition of phrasal knowledge for English-Chinese bilingual information retrieval |
| 1997 | K. Ng V. Zue |
An investigation of subword unit representations for spoken document retrieval |