SIGIR Forum
June 2024, Volume 58 Number 1
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
Letter from the Chair
Vanessa Murdock
A Decade of SIG-sponsored Community Events at SIGIR
Laura Dietz
Papers
Unexplored Frontiers: A Review of Empirical Studies of Exploratory Search
Alan Medlar, Denis Kotkov, Dorota Głowacka
Keynote Extended Abstracts
Shaping the Future of Endangered and Low-Resource Languages—Our Role in the Age of LLMs: A Keynote at ECIR 2024
Josiane Mothe
Event Reports
Report on the 8th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2024) at CHIIR 2024
Alexander Frummet, Andrea Papenmeier, Maik Fröbe, Johannes Kiesel, Vaibhav Adlakha, Norbert Braunschweiler, Mateusz Dubiel, Satanu Ghosh, Marcel Gohsen, Christin Kreutz, Milad Momeni, Markus Nilles, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Abbas Pirmoradi, Paul Thomas, Johanne R. Trippas, Ines Zelch, Oleg Zendel
Report on the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024)
Graham McDonald, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
Report on the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2 2024) at ECIR 2024
Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Federica Cena, Noemi Mauro, Theo Huibers
Report on the 4th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2024) at ECIR 2024
Marinella Petrocchi, Marco Viviani
Report on the 1st International Workshop on Graph-Based Approaches in Information Retrieval (IRonGraphs 2024) at ECIR 2024
Ludovico Boratto, Daniele Malitesta, Mirko Marras, Giacomo Medda, Cataldo Musto, Erasmo Purificato
Report on the Collab-a-thon at ECIR 2024
Sean MacAvaney, Adam Roegiest, Aldo Lipani, Andrew Parry, Björn Engelmann, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Chuan Meng, Erlend Frayling, Eugene Yang, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Harrisen Scells, Iana Atanassova, Jana Friese, Janek Bevendorff, Javier Sanz-Cruzado, Johanne Trippas, Kanaad Pathak, Kaustubh Dhole, Leif Azzopardi, Maik Fröbe, Marc Bertin, Nishchal Prasad, Saber Zerhoudi, Shuai Wang, Shubham Chatterjee, Thomas Jaenich, Udo Kruschwitz, Xi Wang, Zijun Long
Report on The Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024
Leif Azzopardi, Charles L. A. Clarke, Paul Kantor, Bhaskar Mitra, Johanne R. Trippas, Zhaochun Ren, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Negar Arabzadeh, Raman Chandrasekar, Maarten de Rijke, Panagiotis Eustratiadis, William Hersh, Jin Huang, Evangelos Kanoulas, Jasmin Kareem, Yongkang Li, Simon Lupart, Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Adam Roegiest, Ian Soboroff, Fabrizio Silvestri, Suzan Verberne, David Vos, Eugene Yang, Yuyue Zhao
Report on the 7th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2024) at ECIR 2024
Ricardo Campos, Alípio M. Jorge, Adam Jatowt, Sumit Bhatia, Marina Litvak, João Paulo Cordeiro, Conceição Rocha, Hugo Sousa, Behrooz Mansouri
Report on the 1st International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS 2024) at ECIR 2024
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Saber Zerhoudi
Report on the 19th French Conference on Information Retrieval and Applications (CORIA 2024)
Liana Ermakova, Philippe Mulhem, Antoine Doucet, Carlos-Emiliano Gonzalez-Gallardo, Sébastien Fournier
Opinion Papers
Bridging the Gap Between Information Seeking and Product Search Systems: Q&A Recommendation for E-commerce
Saar Kuzi, Shervin Malmasi
Dissertation Abstracts
Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation leveraging Multimodal Information
Daniele Malitesta
New Algorithms and Methodologies for Building Information Retrieval Collections
David Otero
Effective, Efficient, and Robust Learning Algorithms for Ranking and Classification
Federico Marcuzzi