Best Paper Award

• The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform
  Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Niklas Deckers, Simon Reich, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast

Best Student Paper Award

• A Symmetric Dual Encoding Dense Retrieval Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering
  Alireza Salemi, Juan Altmayer Pizzorno, Hamed Zamani

Best Paper Honorable Mention

• Aligning Distillation For Cold-start Item Recommendation
  Feiran Huang, Zefan Wang, Xiao Huang, Yufeng Qian, Zhetao Li, Hao Chen

• End-to-End Multimodal Fact-Checking and Explanation Generation: A Challenging Dataset and Models
  Barry Menglong Yao, Aditya Shah, Lichao Sun, Jin-Hee Cho, Lifu Huang

• Alleviating Matthew Effect of Offline Reinforcement Learning in Interactive Recommendation
  Chongming Gao, Kexin Huang, Jiawei Chen, Yuan Zhang, Biao Li, Peng Jiang, Shiqi Wang, Zhong Zhang, Xiangnan He

• A Geometric Framework for Query Performance Prediction in Conversational Search
  Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto

Best Short Paper Award

• SparseEmbed: Learning Sparse Lexical Representations with Contextual Embeddings for Retrieval
  Weize Kong, Jeffrey M. Dudek, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang, Michael Bendersky

Best Short Paper Honorable Mention

• Graph Collaborative Signals Denoising and Augmentation for Recommendation
  Ziwei Fan, Ke Xu, Zhang Dong, Hao Peng, Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu

• Text-to-Motion Retrieval: Towards Joint Understanding of Human Motion Data and Natural Language
  Nicola Messina, Jan Sedmidubsky, Fabrizio Falchi, Tomás Rebok