SIGIR Forum
June 2025, Volume 59 Number 1
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
Letter from the Chair
Vanessa Murdock
Papers
Chat as Learning in Interactive Information Retrieval and Generation
Ran Yu, Jiqun Liu
Event Reports
Report on the CHIIR 2024, SIGIR 2024, and SIGIR-AP 2024 tutorials on Characterizing, Evaluating, and Mitigating Cognitive Biases in Interactive and Generative IR
Jiqun Liu, Leif Azzopardi
Report on the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact (MANILA24) at SIGIR 2024
Maarten de Rijke, Bart van den Hurk, Flora Salim, Alaa Al Khourdajie, Nan Bai, Renato Calzone, Declan Curran, Getnet Demil, Lesley Frew, Noah Gießing, Mukesh Kumar Gupta, Maria Heuss, Sanaa Hobeichi, David Huard, Jingwei Kang, Ana Lucic, Tanwi Mallick, Shruti Nath, Andrew Okem, Barbara Pernici, Thilina Rajapakse, Hira Saleem, Harry Scells, Nicole Schneider, Damiano Spina, Yuanyuan Tian, Edmund Totin, Andrew Trotman, Ramamurthy Valavandan, Dereje Workneh, Yangxinyu Xie
Report on the 1st Workshop on User Modelling in Conversational Information Retrieval (UM-CIR 2024) at SIGIR-AP 2024 and Workshop on Emerging Trends in Conversational Information Retrieval (ET-CIR 2024) at National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Praveen Acharya, Gareth J. F. Jones, Xiao Fu, Fabio Crestani, Noriko Kando
Report from the 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2025)
Johanne R. Trippas, J. Shane Culpepper (Editors), and Mohammad Aliannejadi, James Allan, Enrique Amigó, Jaime Arguello, Leif Azzopardi, Peter Bailey, Jamie Callan, Rob Capra, Nick Craswell, Bruce Croft, Jeff Dalton, Gianluca Demartini, Laura Dietz, Zhicheng Dou, Carsten Eickhoff, Michael Ekstrand, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Dorota Glowacka, Faegheh Hasibi, Danula Hettiachchi, Rosie Jones, Jaap Kamps, Noriko Kando, Sarvnaz Karimi, Makoto P. Kato, Bevan Koopman, Yiqun Liu, Chenglong Ma, Joel Mackenzie, Maria Maistro, Jiaxin Mao, Dana McKay, Bhaskar Mitra, Stefano Mizzaro, Alistair Moffat, Josiane Mothe, Iadh Ounis, Lida Rashidi, Yongli Ren, Mark Sanderson, Rodrygo Santos, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Laurianne Sitbon, Ian Soboroff, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Julián Urbano, Arjen de Vries, Ryen White, Abby Yuan, Hamed Zamani, Oleg Zendel, Min Zhang, Shengyao Zhuang, Justin Zobel, Guido Zuccon
Report on the 3rd Workshop on NeuroPhysiological Approaches for Interactive Information Retrieval (NeuroPhysIIR 2025) atSIGIR CHIIR 2025
Damiano Spina, Jacek Gwizdka, Kaixin Ji, Yashar Moshfeghi, Javed Mostafa, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Min Zhang, Adnan Ahmad, Sara Fahad Dawood Al Lawati, Nattapat Boonprakong, Nishani Fernando, Jiaman He, Orland Hoeber, Gavindya Jayawardena, Boon-Giin Lee, Haiming Liu, Matthew Pike, Abbas Pirmoradi, Bahareh Nakisa, Mohammad Naim Rastgoo, Flora D. Salim, Fletcher Scott, Shuoqi Sun, Huimin Tang, Dave Towey, Max L. Wilson
Report on the 5th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2025) at ECIR 2025
Udo Kruschwitz, Marinella Petrocchi, Marco Viviani
Report on the 2nd Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2025
Charles L. A. Clarke, Paul Kantor, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R. Trippas, Zhaochun Ren, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Xiao Fu, Yixing Fan, Michael Granitzer, David Graus, Maria Heuss, Jaap Kamps, Yibin Lei, Andrew Parry, Damiaan Reijnaers, Maarten de Rijke, Siddharth A.K. Singh, Yubao Tang, Suzan Verberne, Jonas Wallat, Yumeng Wang, Chen Xu, Andrew Yates, Saber Zerhoudi, Jujia Zhao
Report on the 2nd Workshop on Query Performance Prediction and its Applications in the Era of Large Language Models (QPP++ 2025) at ECIR 2025
Chuan Meng, Guglielmo Faggioli, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nicola Ferro, Josiane Mothe
Report on the 8th Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2025) at ECIR 2025
Ricardo Campos, Alípio M. Jorge, Adam Jatowt, Sumit Bhatia, Marina Litvak, João Paulo Cordeiro, Conceição Rocha, Hugo Sousa, Luis Filipe Cunha, Behrooz Mansouri
Opinion Papers
Widening the Role of Group Recommender Systems with CAJO
Francesco Ricci, Amra Delić
Large Language Models as Search Engines: Societal Challenges
Zacchary Sadeddine, Winston Maxwell, Gaël Varoquaux, Fabian M. Suchanek
Evaluating Sakana’s AI Scientist: Bold Claims, Mixed Results, and a Promising Future?
Joeran Beel, Min-Yen Kan, Moritz Baumgart