An excellent point by Mark Sanderson on whether judgements by judges line up with those by users. How the document is presented in the search result list is important. If the judges evaluate whole documents, but users only see snippets, then we are not comparing results 1:1.#sigir2020

#sigir2020 Mark Sanderson is unaware of negative impacts by search engines on society, but recommender systems have had a much more mixed impact on society. An interesting future area of research would be to evaluate systems based on this impact.

Very interesting (and underexplored) research area noted by Mark Sanderson: lots of effort goes into evaluating results for *a user* but what about evaluation approaches to show how results affect people in aggregate (societal impacts)? #sigir2020

Alas, I wish @IR_oldiehad time to cover bias in recommenders. Great talk, really interesting insights into gaps/areas for future exploration. #sigir2020

#sigir2020 #sigir SIGIR '20: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM SIGIR Conference are available at ACM Digital Library! Please check out 👇dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding….

#sigir2020 starts now! Interestingly, #recsys is consistently one of the most popular topics across venue tracks.

I have a Python joke, but I don't think this is the right environment.

"NLP makes IR interesting and IR makes NLP useful!" - slides from my #sigir2020 summer school talk at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin/publ… Get your rotten tomatoes and eggs out!

The story behind the online virtual conference: Those guys/volunteers are working 20 hours a day in turn (from 6:30am to 02:00am) for #SIGIR2020 to guarantee everything runs smoothly. Photos were taken at Beijing BAAI, 28 July,2020. Thank you for the hard work!

Great set of conclusions from Elizabeth Churchill and her team's work. #sigir2020

Next year's SIGIR 2025 is now soliciting submissions for a pilot "perspectives" track. Submissions should make a well-supported argument for an area of research that deserves more attention by the SIGIR community. 1/4

Get ready for a new track at SIGIR 2025 with #sigir2021. We are looking for bold, beautiful (and even bashful) ideas. Tell us how you're going to change the world!

FREE 3hr Tutorial: Human-Centered AI HCIL Annual Symposium May 27 1-4pm EDT hcil.umd.edu/tutorial-human… Supertools, active appliances & visual control panels increase human control AND automation -the best of both worlds UMD Department of Computer Science @iSchoolUMD MIT HCI CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute HCI & Design at UW Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group

My library day job has tapes of 1000s of Boston rock shows recorded by Artie Freedman. We're hosting a Wikidata edit-a-thon tomorrow & Saturday to build a wiki presence for the bands & venues represented in this collection; see bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6082fea… if you want to help.

What NASA has learned is that “communication needs to be slowed down, and much more iterative than we expect.” slate.trib.al/wdR4PLw

Astronaut Sally Ride and poet Maya Angelou will be the first individuals honored through the American Women Quarters Program. ow.ly/t70s50ESHHt

The cost of war on children is enormous. This is a running thread of documented, empirical impacts from previous conflicts.

Research co-authored by Professor Douglas Oard fal.cn/3t4g2 highlights the lessons learned from shifting studies to remote platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. 💻 ASIS&T CIKM 2022

This paper co-authored with PhD. student Kristine R. is part of their presentation at #asist22.