The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23)
Organizers: Marina Litvak (Shamoon College of Engineering), Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering), Ricardo Campos (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar), Alipio Jorge (University of Porto), Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck)
Abstracts: To bring the attention of the research community to the limitations of current models at recognizing and characterizing AI vs. human authors, we propose to organize the first edition of IACT workshops under the umbrella of the SIGIR conference. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of author characterization.
Web site: https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23
Room: To Be Decided
1st Workshop on Federated Learning for Information Retrieval (FLIRT)
Organizers: Fabio Pinelli (IMT Lucca), Gabriele Tolomei (Sapienza University of Rome), Giovanni Trappolini (Sapienza University of Rome)
Abstracts: The motivation of the FLIRT workshop is to provide an open forum for researchers and practitioners where they can exchange ideas, identify key challenges, and define the roadmap toward a successful application of federated learning (FL) in the broad IR area.
Web site: https://sites.google.com/view/flirt-sigir23/
Room: To Be Decided
Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning
Organizers: Michael Bendersky (Google Research), Danqi Chen (Princeton University), Fernando Diaz (Google Research), Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Abstracts: The goal of this full-day hybrid workshop is to bring together researchers from industry and academia to discuss various aspects of retrieval-enhanced machine learning, including effectiveness, efficiency, and robustness of these models in addition to their impact on real-world applications.
Web site: https://reml-workshop.github.io/
Room: To Be Decided
Generative Information Retrieval
Organizers: Gabriel Bénédict (University of Amsterdam & RTL NL), Ruqing Zhang (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Donald Metzler (Google Research)
Abstracts: The goal of this workshop is to focus on previously explored Generative IR techniques like document retrieval and direct response generation, while also offering a venue for the discussion and exploration of how Generative IR can be applied to domains like recommendation systems, summarization, etc. The format of the workshop is interactive, including roundtable and keynote sessions.
Web site: https://coda.io/@sigir/gen-ir
Room: To Be Decided
4th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech 2023)
Organizers: Ralf Krestel (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics & Kiel University), Hidir Aras (FIZ Karlsruhe), Linda Andersson (Artificial Researcher IT GmbH), Florina Piroi (TU Wien & Research Studios Austria), Allan Hanbury (TU Wien), Dean Alderucci (Carnegie Mellon University – Center for AI and Patent Analysis)
Abstracts: PatentSemTech aims to establish a long-term collaboration and a two-way communication channel between the IP industry and academia from relevant fields such as natural-language processing (NLP), text and data mining (TDM) and semantic technologies (ST) in order to explore and transfer new knowledge, methods and technologies for the benefit of industrial applications as well as support research in applied sciences for the IP and neighbouring domains. PatentSemTech 2023 workshop will be held as a full-day onsite event in conjunction with SIGIR 2023.
Web site: http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/
Room: To Be Decided
SIGIR eCom 2023
Organizers: Surya Kallumadi (Lowe’s Companies), Yubin Kim (Etsy), Tracy Holloway King (Adobe), Shervin Malmasi (Amazon), Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), Jacopo Tagliabue (New York University)
Abstracts: The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval and NLP research & their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce. The special theme of this year’s workshop is Foundation Models and Unified Information Access in eCommerce.
Web site: https://sigir-ecom.github.io/
Room: To Be Decided
Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services (KDF)
*Half Day Workshop
Organizers: Sameena Shah (J.P. Morgan AI Research), Xiaodan Zhu (Queen’s University), Wenhu Chen (University of Waterloo), Manling Li (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Armineh Nourbakhsh (J.P. Morgan AI Research), Xiaomo Liu (J.P. Morgan AI Research), Zhiqiang Ma (J.P. Morgan AI Research), Charese Smiley (J.P. Morgan AI Research), Yulong Pei (J.P. Morgan AI Research), Akshat Gupta (J.P. Morgan AI Research)
Abstracts: This workshop will focus on research into the use of AI techniques to extract knowledge from unstructured data in financial services. The program of the workshop will include invited talks, and spotlight paper presentations, to showcase research opportunities, novel solutions and systems, success stories, and future directions. We cordially welcome researchers, practitioners, and students from academic and industrial communities who are interested in the topics to participate and/or submit their original work.
Web site: https://kdf-workshop.github.io/kdf23/
Room: To Be Decided
2nd Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR 2023)
Organizers: Sebastian Bruch (Pinecone), Joel Mackenzie (University of Queensland), Maria Maistro (University of Copenhagen), Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR)
Abstracts: The second ReNeuIR Workshop will be co-located with SIGIR in Taipei, Taiwan, in July 2023. The event aims to foster discussion and collaboration on holistic evaluation of methods in the age of neural information retrieval (NIR), noting that efficacy matters but so does the computational cost incurred to achieve it.
Web site: https://reneuir.org/
Room: To Be Decided