SIGIR Forum
June 2026, Volume 60 Number 1
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
Announcing SIGIR Futures
Ryen W. White
Event Reports
Report on the 3rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP 2025)
Keping Bi
Report on the 1st Workshop on Beyond Relevance-based EValuation of RAG Systems (BREV-RAG 2025) at SIGIR-AP 202
Tetsuya Sakai, Hanpei Fang, Makoto P. Kato, Keping Bi, Hideo Joho, Charles L.A. Clarke, Sijie Tao, Junjie Wang, Haoxiang Shi, Risa Hiramatsu, Hengran Zhang, Jiaxin Mao, Yuya Ishihara, Taichi Motegi, Nuo Chen, Zhicheng Dou, and Atsushi Keyaki
Report on the 11th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2026)
Chirag Shah and Ryen W. White
Report on CHIIR 2026 Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI&AS)
Yifan Liu, Jaime Arguello, Orland Hoeber, Chang Liu, Soo Young Rieh, and Luanne Sinnamon
Report on The 1st Workshop on Human-Centered Proactive and Personalized Agents for Interactive Information Access at CHIIR 2026
Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta, Tanya Roosta, Madhura Raju, Grace Hui Yang, and Chirag Shah
Report on the 9th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2026) at ECIR 2026
Ricardo Campos, Alipio M. Jorge, Adam Jatowt, Sumit Bhatia, Marina Litva, Joao Paulo Cordeiro, Conceicao Rocha, Luis Filipe Cunha, and Behrooz Mansouri
Report on the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026)
Avishek Anand, Julian Urbano, Zhaochun Ren, Suzan Verberne, Maria Heuss, Bhaskar Mitra, Maik Frobe, Jan Heinrich Merker, and Harrisen Scells
Report on The Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2026
Leif Azzopardi, Charles L. A. Clarke, Claudia Hauff, Yubin Kim, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R. Trippas, Zhaochun Ren, Saber Zerhoudi, Qingyao Ai, Shakiba Amirshahi, Marcel Gohsen, Jaap Kamps, Jussi Karlgren, Yiqun Liu, Shuo Miao, Behnaz Nojavanasghari, Jingfen Qiao, Naren Ramakrishnan, Eunice Son, Yiteng Tu, Suzan Verberne, Yumeng Wang, Chen Xu, Raquib Bin Yousuf, and Jujia Zhao
Report on The First INFormation Access in Uncertainty ScEnarios (INFUSE) Workshop at ECIR 2026
Alisa Rieger, Ran Yu, Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Nicolas Mattis, Johanne R. Trippas, Markus Bink, Stefan Dietze, David Elsweiler, Liana Ermakova, Norbert Fuhr, Lluis Gomez, Vitalii Hirak, Taimoor Khan, Johannes Kiesel, Udo Kruschwitz, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Oscar Ramirez Milian, Harrie Oosterhuis, and Marten Risius
Report on the 1st Workshop on Conversational Search for Complex Information Needs (CoSCIN’26) at ECIR 2026
Roxana Petcu, Mert Yazan, Mohanna Hoveyda, Jirui Qi, and Maarten de Rijke
Opinion
Reproducibility in the Era of AI Agents
Jimmy Lin
Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices
Bhaskar Mitra
Dissertations
Offline Evaluation Measures of Fairness in Recommender Systems
Theresia Veronika Rampisela