June 2022

SIGIR Forum
June 2022, Volume 56 Number 1

Table of Contents

SIGIR News

Chair’s Letter
Ben Carterette

Keynote Extended Abstracts

Empirical Evaluation of Predictive Models: A keynote at ECIR 2022
Peter Flach

Responsible Artificial Intelligence – from Principles to Practice: A keynote at TheWebConf 2022
Virginia Dignum

Event Reports

Report on the Workshop on Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKG 2021) at AKBC 2021
Krisztian Balog, Paramita Mirza, Martin G. Skjæveland, Zhilin Wang

Report on the 25th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2021)
Joel Mackenzie, Damiano Spina

Report on the 1st Early Career Researchers’ Roundtable for Information Access Research (ECRs4IR 2022) at CHIIR 2022
Johanne Trippas, David Maxwell, Abdulaziz AlQatan, Miriam Boom, Catherine Chavula, Anita Crescenzi, Luis-Daniel Ibáñez, Selina Meyer, Anna-Marie Ortloff, Srishti Palani, Dolinkumar Patel, Wiebke Thode, Zhaopeng Xing

Report on the 1st Workshop on Audio Collection Human Interaction (AudioCHI 2022) at CHIIR 2022
Gareth J. F. Jones, Maria Eskevich, Ben Carterette, Joana Correia, Rosie Jones, Jussi Karlgren, Ian Soboroff

Report on the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022): The First Major Hybrid IR Conference
Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvag, Vinay Setty

Report on the 2nd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2022) at ECIR 2022
Marinella Petrocchi, Marco Viviani

Report on the 5th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2022) at ECIR 2022
Ricardo Campos, Alípio M. Jorge, Adam Jatowt, Sumit Bhatia, Marina Litvak, João Paulo Cordeiro, Conceição Rocha, Hugo Sousa, Behrooz Mansouri

Report on the 2nd Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL) 2022
Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Arnab Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Shouvik Guha, Arindam Pal, Koustav Rudra, Prasenjit Majumder, Dwaipayan Roy, Ayan Bandopadhyay, Procheta Sen, Paheli Bhattacharya, Aniket Deroy, Upal Bhattacharya, Subinay Adhikary, Subham Kumar Nigam

Opinion Papers

When Measurement Misleads: The Limits of Batch Assessment of Retrieval Systems
Justin Zobel

Dissertation Abstracts

Enhancing Scene Text Recognition with Visual Context Information
Ahmed Sabir

Examining the Effectiveness of Collaborative Search Engines
Felipe Moraes

Dataset Search and Augmentation
Zhiyu Chen