December 2023

SIGIR Forum
December 2023, Volume 57 Number 2

Table of Contents

SIGIR News

Letter from the Chair
Vanessa Murdock

ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2023: Secretary’s Notes
Laura Dietz

Keynote Extended Abstracts

Evaluating Parrots and Sociopathic Liars: A keynote at ICTIR 2023
Tetsuya Sakai

Tasks, Copilots, and the Future of Search: A Keynote at SIGIR 2023
Ryen W. White

Towards Generative Search and Recommendation: A keynote at RecSys 2023
Tat-Seng Chua

Event Reports

Report on the 13th Workshop on Temporal Web Analytics (TempWeb 2023) at WWW 2023
Marc Spaniol, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Omar Alonso

Report on the 1st Symposium on NLP for Social Good (NSG 2023)
Procheta Sen, Tulika Saha, Danushka Bollegala

Report on the 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2023)
Guglielmo Faggioli, Antonio Ferrara, Franco Maria Nardini, Nicola Tonellotto

Report on the 46th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023): Reflections from the Program Co-Chairs
Makoto P. Kato, Josiane Mothe, Barbara Poblete

Report on the 9th ACM SIGIR / the 13th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2023)
Masaharu Yoshioka, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Julia Kiseleva

Report on the SIGIR 2023 Session on Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity
Suzan Verberne, Hussein Suleman, Luca Soldaini, Avijit Ghosh

Report on the 1st Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT 2023) at SIGIR 2023
Marina Litvak, Irina Rabaev, Ricardo Campos, Alípio M. Jorge, Adam Jatowt

Report on the 1st Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR 2023) at SIGIR 2023
Gabriel Bénédict, Ruqing Zhang, Donald Metzler, Andrew Yates, Romain Deffayet, Philipp Hager, Sami Jullien

Report on The Web Search Revolution Symposium
Mark Sanderson, Ramon Lobato, Kieran Hegarty, Lisa M. Given, Chirag Shah

Report on the 11th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2023) at ACM RecSys 2023
Benjamin Kille, Andreas Lommatzsch, Özlem Özgöbek, Peng Liu, Lemei Zhang, Simen Eide

Report on the 14th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2023): Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Avi Arampatzis, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Anastasia Giachanou, Evangelos Kanoulas, Dan Li, Theodora Tsikrika, Michalis Vlachos, Stefanos Vrochidis

Report on the 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2023) at ACM RecSys 2023
Peter Brusilovsky, Marco de Gemmis, Alexander Felfernig, Pasquale Lops, Marco Polignano, Giovanni Semeraro, Martijn C. Willemsen

Report on the 3rd Workshop on the Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems (PERSPECTIVES 2023) at RecSys 2023
Alan Said, Eva Zangerle, Christine Bauer

Report on the Workshop on Learning and Evaluating Recommendations with Impressions (LERI) at RecSys 2023
Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Pablo Castells, Justin Basilico, Paolo Cremonesi

Report on the 1st Workshop onTask Focused IR in the Era of Generative AI
Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White

Report on the PhD Symposium at CIKM 2023
Haiming Liu, Christine Bauer

Report on the 21st Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2023)
Avishek Anand, Maria Soledad Pera, Maria Heuss, Venktesh V, Matteo Corsi

Opinion Papers

Large Search Model: Redefining Search Stack in the Era of LLMs
Liang Wang, Nan Yang, Xiaolong Huang, Linjun Yang, Rangan Majumder, Furu Wei

Rethinking E-Commerce Search
Haixun Wang, Taesik Na

Dissertation Abstracts

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering about Named Entities
Paul Lerner

Metric Optimization and Mainstream Bias Mitigation in Recommender Systems
Roger Zhe Li