Tutorials at SIGIR 2020, Xi’an, China

SIGIR 2020 tutorials will span one day on Sunday, July 26, 2020


Topic 1: Conversational IR/Recommendation

9:00 am to 12:00 pm: 1473 Conversational Recommendation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation
Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Maarten de Rijke and Tat-Seng Chua

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm: 869 Recent Advances in Conversational Information Retrieval
Jianfeng Gao, Chenyan Xiong and Paul Bennett

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm: 1295 Reciprocal Recommendation: matching users with the right users
Iván Palomares


Topic 2: Web IR

9:00 am to 12:00 pm: 953 Mining the Web for Cross-lingual Parallel Data
Ahmed El-Kishky, Philipp Koehn and Holger Schwenk

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm: 1286 Question Answering over Curated and Open Web Sources
Rishiraj Saha Roy and Avishek Anand


Topic 3: Interactive IR

9:00 am to 12:00 pm: 1185 Tutorial on Task-Based Search and Assistance
Chirag Shah and Ryen White

9:00 am to 12:00 pm: 1408 Interactive Information Retrieval: Models, Algorithms, and Evaluation
Chengxiang Zhai

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm: 1192 Modeling User Behavior for Vertical Search: Images, Apps and Products
Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu and Maarten de Rijke