Thomson Reuters just told us that Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (FnTIR) will get an impact factor (probably) next year.

Our FnTIR survey on "Search result diversification" is now available from bit.ly/1DpPd8U (w/ Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis)

Samsung now also in the semantic web business, and building a large knowledge graph: github.com/Samsung/Knowle… 4.5B entities, 20Bfacts, open.

seen last week: an adversarial relationship makes #datamining useless for stopping terrorist: digg.com/2015/why-mass-…

We’re announcing five honorees of the 2014 ACM Technical Awards. Learn more about each recipient’s contributions: preview.acm.org/2014-technical…

Life is too short for "this paper is organized as follows".

Any kind soul has access to Sparck Jones & van Rijsbergen's 1976 paper "Information Retrieval Test Collections"? emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.110…

Full paper: "Splitting Water: Precision and Anti-Precision to Reduce Pool Bias" with Mihai Lupu and Allan Hanbury accepted at #sigir2015

Happy to see that the gamifir 2015 proceedings are now indexed by DBLP. dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ecir/g… ECIR2015

All slides and papers from our 2nd Bibliometric-enhanced IR workshop ECIR2015 are available. gesis.org/en/events/even… Ingo Frommholz @[email protected] Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩

Before and after peer review: jasonya.com/wp/category/co… (HT @ErikAngner)

Dataset for studying readability of crisis-related tweets (500+, with annotations) freely available: bit.ly/1ILwbIe #SMEM

ACM Trans on Multimedia Computing, Comm, App (TOMM) nominations for Georganas Best Paper Award due 6/15. Details at bit.ly/1Gn3C6x

ECIR2015 Award page is up. Please visit ecir2015.org.

ECIR2015 The IRSG Informer published an article about ECIR: irsg.bcs.org/informer/2015/…

We are humbled and proud to be there RT ECIR2015: ECIR2015 Award page is up. Please visit ecir2015.org.

Why have I never bothered to look up the "yes" command before? Linux has a command for everything.

A few more hours to #saveFoP change.org/p/european-par…

Think about all those image experiments you might not be able to do anymore x.com/ECIR2015/statu…

annoying facts: conference session chairs which allow too much overtime (25+ mins!)