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Bhaskar Mitra<p>Had really fun time presenting the first keynote titled "Bias and Beyond: On Generative AI and the Future of Search and Society" at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BIAS2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BIAS2024</span></a> workshop at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SIGIR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SIGIR2024</span></a> earlier today. Lots of engaging questions and discussions from the attendees.</p><p>Slides: <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/bias-and-beyond-on-generative-ai-and-the-future-of-search-and-society/270176334" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">slideshare.net/slideshow/bias-</span><span class="invisible">and-beyond-on-generative-ai-and-the-future-of-search-and-society/270176334</span></a></p>
Bhaskar Mitra<p>Honored to receive the ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Awards for excellence in (i) Research and (ii) Community Engagement.<br><a href="https://sigir.org/awards/sigir-ecr-awards/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sigir.org/awards/sigir-ecr-awa</span><span class="invisible">rds/</span></a></p><p>Tomorrow I'll give the opening keynote at the BIAS workshop at 9:10am. Hope to see you there!<br><a href="https://biasinrecsys.github.io/sigir2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">biasinrecsys.github.io/sigir20</span><span class="invisible">24/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SIGIR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SIGIR2024</span></a></p>
Lesley Frew<p>Gulam Shakir, Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer at National Archives and Records Administration, talks about detecting personally identifiable information with AI - but they found PII in embedded images (compressed) in powerpoint files. <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/sigir2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sigir2024</span></a></p>
Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️<p>Harrie Oosterhuis spreading the news about the continuation of IRJ under the new flag:</p><p>Information Retrieval Research Journal<br><a href="https://irrj.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">irrj.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Lead by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://idf.social/@djoerd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>djoerd</span></a></span> with the complete support of the IRJ founders and many prior board members. Submit your work!!</p><p><a href="https://idf.social/tags/sigir2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sigir2024</span></a> <a href="https://idf.social/tags/IRRJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRRJ</span></a></p>
Michael Ekstrand<p>Random thought re: <a href="https://hci.social/tags/SIGIR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SIGIR2024</span></a> discussion of research inclusivity w.r.t. resources, etc.: what if we had a paper award for Most Effective Resource Use? Recognize papers that are exemplary in terms of knowledge per CPU/GPU/kilowatt-hour?</p>
Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️<p>Uncontextualized significance considered dangerous<br>by Nicola Ferro and Mark Sanderson<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626772.3657827" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626772</span><span class="invisible">.3657827</span></a></p><p>Paper looks into the number of cases where doing Bonferroni correction would modify your conclusion about significance. It's larger than you might think.</p><p><a href="https://idf.social/tags/sigir2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sigir2024</span></a></p>
Michael Ekstrand<p>Ellen Voorhees in her <a href="https://hci.social/tags/SIGIR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SIGIR2024</span></a> Salton Award talk: "Do not interpret measurement error as super-human effectiveness."</p><p>this needs to be stated repeatedly and loudly.</p>
Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️<p>If you are at SIGIR: </p><p>Please find your IRRJ flyer at the registration desk or the info table!</p><p>And, read up this thread for extra background info. Tnx <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://idf.social/@djoerd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>djoerd</span></a></span> for starting this initiative, and the editors for stepping up to serve the IR community.</p><p>Finally: submit your work!! </p><p><a href="https://idf.social/@djoerd/112789991514521470" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">idf.social/@djoerd/11278999151</span><span class="invisible">4521470</span></a></p><p><a href="https://idf.social/tags/sigir2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sigir2024</span></a> <a href="https://idf.social/tags/IRRJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRRJ</span></a></p>
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉<p>Today at <a href="https://idf.social/tags/SIGIR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SIGIR2024</span></a>, the Information Retrieval Research Journal <a href="https://idf.social/tags/IRRJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRRJ</span></a> will be informally announced:<br> • Open Access,<br> • No article processing charges,<br> • Papers in all areas of Information Retrieval (IR),<br> • First issue planned end of 2024,<br> • Submissions open in September,<br> • To enlarge IR with researchers from low-income countries!</p>
Harald Sack<p>Our colleague Hidir Aras is co-organizing the 5th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies - PatentSemTech 2024, co-located with <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/sigir2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sigir2024</span></a>, focusing on the application of NLP, text and data mining, and semantic technologies in the domain of patent information</p><p>Workshop website: <a href="http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a><br>programme: <a href="http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/programme.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech</span><span class="invisible">/programme.html</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@fiz_karlsruhe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fiz_karlsruhe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@heikef" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heikef</span></a></span> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/semanticweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semanticweb</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/semantictechnologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semantictechnologies</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/knowledgegraphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledgegraphs</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patents</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/patents4science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patents4science</span></a></p>
Harald Sack<p>5th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2024) is co-organized by my colleagues from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@fiz_karlsruhe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fiz_karlsruhe</span></a></span>, co-located with SIGIR 2024.</p><p>paper deadline: April 25, 2024<br>website: <a href="http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/semanticweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semanticweb</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/knowledgegraphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledgegraphs</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeai</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/sigir2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sigir2024</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/patent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patent</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/patentretrieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patentretrieval</span></a></p>
Bhaskar Mitra<p>🔵 News: ReNeuIR Workshop is back at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SIGIR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SIGIR2024</span></a>!</p><p>» Call for papers: <a href="https://reneuir.org/cfp.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">reneuir.org/cfp.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>» Shared task on efficient neural IR: <a href="https://reneuir.org/shared_task.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">reneuir.org/shared_task.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Come participate/present/network with a growing IR research sub-community excited about efficient neural retrieval.</p>
Bhaskar Mitra<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SIGIR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SIGIR2024</span></a> Resource &amp; Reproducibility Track (see CFP: <a href="https://sigir-2024.github.io/call_for_res_rep_papers.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sigir-2024.github.io/call_for_</span><span class="invisible">res_rep_papers.html</span></a>) is looking for more reviewers. This is a great track to review for with both interesting papers and a light reviewer load (2-3 papers per person).</p><p>If you are interested, please fill up this short form: <a href="https://forms.gle/eLnZvA6mfE6rDgzz7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forms.gle/eLnZvA6mfE6rDgzz7</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>