SIGIR Forum
December 2024, Volume 58 Number 2
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
Letter from the Chair
Vanessa Murdock
ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2024: Secretary’s Notes
Laura Dietz
Keynote Extended Abstracts
A Journey of Language Tasks Evaluation: A keynote at SIGIR 2024
Ellen M. Voorhees
Event Reports
Report on the 1st Workshop on Exploring Future Directions for Information Access (UnExplored FrontCHIIRS) at CHIIR 2024
Adam Roegiest, Johanne Trippas
Report on the 33rd The ACM Web Conference (WWW 2024)
Tat-Seng Chua, Chong-Wah Ngo, Ravi Kumar, Hady W. Lauw
Report on the 14th Workshop on Temporal Web Analytics (TempWeb 2024) at WWW 2024
Marc Spaniol, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Omar Alonso
Report on the Hands-On PhD Course on Responsible AI from the Lens of an Information Access Researcher
Damiano Spina, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro, Vincenzo Della Mea, Francesca Da Ros, Michael Soprano, Hafsa Akebli, Alex Falcon, Mehdi Fasihi, Alessio Fiorin, David La Barbera, Daniele Lizzio Bosco, Riccardo Lunardi, Alberto Marturano, Zaka-Ud-Din Muhammad, Francesco Nascimben, Moritz Nottebaum, Massimiliano Pascoli, Mihai Horia Popescu, Laura Rasotto, Mubashara Rehman, Francesco Taverna, Biagio Tomasetig, Alessandro Tremamunno
Report on the PhD Symposium at WebSci 2024
Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Marc Spaniol
Report on the 15th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2024)
David Vos, Clara Rus, Marina Ernst
Report on the SIGIR 2024 Session on Women in IR (WIR)
Nazli Goharian, Faegheh Hasibi, Maria Maistro, Suzan Verberne
Report on the 1st Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024
Timo Breuer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Norbert Fuhr, Krisztian Balog, Philipp Schaer, Nolwenn Bernard, Ingo Frommholz, Marcel Gohsen, Kaixin Ji, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jüri Keller, Jiqun Liu, Martin Mladenov, Gabriella Pasi, Johanne Trippas, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi, ChengXiang Zhai
Report on the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) at SIGIR 2024
Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz
Report on the 5th International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS 2024) at SIGIR 2024
Alejandro Bellogin, Ludovico Boratto, Styliani Kleanthous, Elisabeth Lex, Francesca Maridina Malloci, Mirko Marras
Report on the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval’s Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2024) at SIGIR 2024
Fabio Petroni, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Giovanni Trappolini
Report on the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2024)
Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Marco Viviani, David La Barbera, Sandip Modha, Gabriella Pasi, Francesca Da Ros, Michael Soprano
Report on the 15th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024): Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Petra Galuščáková, Alba García Seco de Herrera, Lorraine Goeuriot, Philippe Mulhem, Georges Quénot, Didier Schwab, Laure Soulier
Report on the 2nd Workshop on Task-Focused IR in the Era of Generative AI
Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White
Opinion Papers
Evaluating the Evaluations: A Perspective on Benchmarks
Omar Alonso, Kenneth Church
Green Recommender Systems: A Call for Attention
Joeran Beel, Alan Said, Tobias Vente, Lukas Wegmeth
Dissertation Abstracts
Higher Order Knowledge Mining For Humanistic Data-Generated Graphs
Georgios Drakopoulos