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Congratulations to the SIGIR Academy inductees of 2024!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #SIGIR2024

.... and SIGIR 2026 will be in Melbourne! 🦘🦜🐧🦇

And, finally, a big shoutout to my rockstar co-chair Tao Ye, it was a pleasure to work together!

Zhuyun Dai is the first keynote of the ReNeuIR workshop at #SIGIR2024: "LLM-Powered Retrieval: From Distillation to New Architectures"

ReNeuIR at #SIGIR2024: 61 systems evaluated within our shared task initiative. Submissions are still open!

What a great talk from Zhuyun Dai ! So many cool works and ideas

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best

we are hiring a postdoc in the area of Information Retrieval and Text Mining. Full details: citius.gal/news/job-offer…. Applications until Sept 30th

In case you missed it at #sigir2024, the promo video for #sigir2026 ACM SIGIR SIGIR 2024 is now available here: bit.ly/sigir2026-prom… #naarm #melbourne #australia

SIGIR-AP 2024 registration page: sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2024/… SIGIR-AP 2024 visa information page: sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2024/… #sigirap2024

I think I'm a little early in saying this as the website isn't quite fully up to date, but the dates for the #chiir2025 conference and its call for papers are up chiir2025.github.io See you in Melbourne next year!

#ECIR2025 calls for contributions: ecir2025.eu/calls/. Key dates: ecir2025.eu/key-dates/. Lucca is waiting for you!

#sigirap2024 banquet will take place on Dec 11 at RIHGA Royal Hotel Tokyo (Royal Hall on 3F)

#ECIR2025 call for Reproducibility Papers: ecir2025.eu/call-for-repro…. Abstract submission: Oct. 16, 2024. Repro paper submission: Oct. 23, 2024. Notification: Dec. 16, 2024.

#ECIR2025 will again have an “IR for Good” track on advances in fair, unbiased, transparent, ethical, inclusive, and sustainable IR: ecir2025.eu/call-for-ir-fo…. Full/short abstract submission: Oct. 30, 2024. Full/short paper submission: Nov. 6, 2024. Notification: Dec. 16, 2024.

At 15:00 on 16th September, Ekaterina Khramtsova Ekaterina Khramtsova from The University of Queensland will give an #IRTalk talk entitled "Unsupervised Dense Retriever Selection: Challenges and Opportunities". Details at: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

For vector search, practitioners kinda know that for small corpora, don't bother with HNSW indexing, just brute-force it. However, guidance is mostly hand wavy... until now. I ran some experiments for you on BEIR and wrote it up. arxiv.org/abs/2409.06464 You're welcome.

tl;dr - for collections less than 1M vectors (which encompasses a lot of use cases), don't bother with HNSW indexes.

Today, Ekaterina Khramtsova from the University of Queensland ielab gives an #IRTalk talk entitled "Unsupervised Dense Retriever Selection: Challenges and Opportunities". Details at: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal… UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group

❗ #CfP EXTENDED to 27th Sep 📅 The #CfP for the 22nd Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop #ALTA2024, affiliated with ACL 2025, has been extended to 27th Sep. 📅 2nd-4th Dec 2024, #ANU, #Canberra, AU. #Hybrid in person and online. alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers