Great insights from Jamie Callan on why Conversational search is important for IR. It's because it builds on the strengths of the IR community - task and user models. We could do much more. #ecir2020

#ECIR2020 Best Demo Award goes to "Revisionista.PT: Uncovering the News Cycle using Web Archives" authored by Flávio Martins and André Mourão. Congratulations!!

#ECIR2020 Test of Time Award goes to "A Language Modeling Approach for Temporal Information Needs - ECIR 2010" authored by Klaus Berberich, Srikanta Bedathur, Omar Alonso and Gerhard Weikum. Congratulations!!

#ECIR2020 Test of Time Honorable Mention goes to "Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions - ECIR 2008" authored by Kalervo Järvelin, Susan L. Price, Lois L. M. Delcambre and Marianne Lykke Nielsen. Congratulations!!

Congratulations to all the winners! Enjoy the moment! A special thanks goes also to the Award Committees. #ecir2020

After the celebration moment, we are back to work! Last today's session, now on course. Information Extraction [youtube.com/watch?v=eHJTkF…] and IR General [youtube.com/watch?v=TK4F0G…]

Want to have a sense of how the #ECIR2020 workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation did go? Check out BIAS 2020 webpage [bias.disim.univaq.it] for slides and videos.

Did you enjoy #ecir2020 tutorials? "The Role of Entity Repositories in Information Retrieval"; "Principle-to-program: neural methods for similar question retrieval in online communities", "Text Meets Space: Geographic Content Extraction, Resolution and Information Retrieval"

Stefan Rueger and Suzan Verberne invited Dyaa Albakour and Vanessa Murdock to give two talks at the #ecir2020 doctoral-consortium. Where you there to present your work as a student? Give us your feedback.

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening! Prepared for an excited very last day at #ecir2020? Room A to see the best long paper and the Industrial impact paper honorable mention. Room B to follow the last trends of the industry? Room C to revisit Best Short Paper and Best Demo.?

Follow the last day of #ECIR2020 live on Youtube: Question Answering & Queries: youtube.com/watch?v=cVZ3Qj… Industry Day: youtube.com/watch?v=jPpqXe…

Many thanks to Bloomberg Engineering, the diamond sponsor of #ECIR2020! Do not forget to use the slack channel for one to one conversations with our sponsor. bloomberg.com/company/engine…

Thanks to salesforce and amazon, gold sponsors of #ECIR2020! Do not forget to use the slack channels for one to one conversations with our sponsors. salesforce.com amazon.com

We are also thankfull to Google and Levi Strauss & Co., silver sponsors of #ECIR2020! Do not forget to use the slack channels for one to one conversations with our sponsors. google.com levistrauss.com

Thanks also to ntent and textkernel, bronze sponsors of #ECIR2020! Do not forget to use the slack channels for one to one conversations with our sponsors. ntent.com textkernel.com

We would also like to thank Signal AI for sponsoring the #ECIR2020 industry impact award. signal-ai.com

And lastly, thanks for the generous support of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group and Springer. sigir.org/sig-irlist/ irsg.bcs.org springer.com

Back from coffee break. Join us on room A to follow the presentation of the best industrial impact paper and other interesting researches. Join us on room b to attend the industry session. #ecir2020

After yesterday's insights from Jamie Callan on the importance of conversational search, we are sure everyone will assist the Conversation Search Panel. It is about to start. Watch it live at youtube.com/watch?v=cVZ3Qj….

Thank you all for an amazing #ECIR2020 online conference. Next year we hope to see you, in person, in Lucca, Tuscany for #ecir2021. Follow ECIR 2021 for more. The website is also up: ecir2021.eu.