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2 | Day 1: Dec 9 (Mon) - Tutorials | Room | ||||||
3 | 9:00 | - | 10:30 | Tutorial 1: Evaluating Cognitive Biases in Conversational and Generative IIR: A Tutorial Leif Azzopardi and Jiqun Liu | Room 03 | |||
4 | Tutorial 2: Query Performance Prediction: Techniques and Applications in Modern Information Retrieval Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Ebrahim Bagheri | Room 04 | ||||||
5 | Tutorial 3: Paradigm Shifts in Team Recommendation: From Historical Subgraph Optimization to Emerging Graph Neural Network Mahdis Saeedi, Christine Wong and Hossein Fani | Room 05 | ||||||
6 | 10:30 | - | 10:45 | Coffee Break | ||||
7 | 10:45 | - | 12:15 | Tutorial 1: Evaluating Cognitive Biases in Conversational and Generative IIR: A Tutorial Leif Azzopardi and Jiqun Liu | Room 03 | |||
8 | Tutorial 2: Query Performance Prediction: Techniques and Applications in Modern Information Retrieval Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Ebrahim Bagheri | Room 04 | ||||||
9 | Tutorial 3: Paradigm Shifts in Team Recommendation: From Historical Subgraph Optimization to Emerging Graph Neural Network Mahdis Saeedi, Christine Wong and Hossein Fani | Room 05 | ||||||
10 | 12:15 | - | 14:15 | Lunch Break (on your own) | ||||
11 | 14:15 | - | 15:45 | Tutorial 1: Evaluating Cognitive Biases in Conversational and Generative IIR: A Tutorial Leif Azzopardi and Jiqun Liu | Room 03 | |||
12 | Tutorial 4: Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities Fernando Diaz, Andrew Drozdov, To Eun Kim, Alireza Salemi and Hamed Zamani | Room 04 | ||||||
13 | Tutorial 5: Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval Andrew Yates, Carlos Lassance, Sean MacAvaney, Thong Nguyen and Yibin Lei | Room 05 | ||||||
14 | 15:45 | - | 16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
15 | 16:00 | - | 17:30 | Tutorial 1: Evaluating Cognitive Biases in Conversational and Generative IIR: A Tutorial Leif Azzopardi and Jiqun Liu | Room 03 | |||
16 | Tutorial 4: Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities Fernando Diaz, Andrew Drozdov, To Eun Kim, Alireza Salemi and Hamed Zamani | Room 04 | ||||||
17 | Tutorial 5: Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval Andrew Yates, Carlos Lassance, Sean MacAvaney, Thong Nguyen and Yibin Lei | Room 05 | ||||||
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19 | Day 2: Dec 10 (Tue) - Main Conference | Room | ID | Presenter | Type | |||
20 | 9:00 | - | 9:20 | Opening | Rooms 03-05 | |||
21 | 9:20 | - | 10:20 | Keynote 1: Information Experiment: What Does Empirical Microeconomics Tell Us? Momoe Makino (The Institute of Developing Economies, External Trade Organization) [Chair: Tetsuya Sakai] | Rooms 03-05 | Momoe Makino | In-person | |
22 | 10:20 | - | 10:40 | Coffee Break | ||||
23 | 10:40 | - | 11:55 | Technical Session 1: Retrieval Augmented Generation Chair: Negar Arabzadeh | Rooms 03-05 | |||
24 | AU-RAG: Agent-based Universal Retrieval Augmented Generation (Poster #01) Jisoo Jang and Wen-Syan Li | 30 | Jisoo Jang | In-person | ||||
25 | Fine Tuning vs. Retrieval Augmented Generation for Less Popular Knowledge (Poster #02) Heydar Soudani, Evangelos Kanoulas and Faegheh Hasibi | 29 | Heydar Soudani | In-person | ||||
26 | Mitigating Entity-Level Hallucination in Large Language Models (Poster #03) Weihang Su, Yichen Tang, Qingyao Ai, Changyue Wang, Zhijing Wu and Yiqun Liu | 6 | Weihang Su | In-person | ||||
27 | 11:55 | - | 13:05 | Lunch Break (lunchbox) | ||||
28 | 13:05 | - | 14:45 | Technical Session 2: Evaluation I Chair: Evangelos Kanoulas | Rooms 03-05 | |||
29 | LLMs can be Fooled into Labelling a Document as Relevant (Poster #04) Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson and Falk Scholer | 78 | Marwah Alaofi | In-person | ||||
30 | Offline Evaluation of Set-Based Text-to-Image Generation (Poster #05) Negar Arabzadeh, Fernando Diaz and Junfeng He | 58 | Negar Arabzadeh | In-person | ||||
31 | [TOIS] On the Ordering of Pooled Web Pages, Gold Assessments, and Bronze Assessments (Poster #06) Tetsuya Sakai, Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen, Yujing Li, Maria Maistro, Zhumin Chu and Nicola Ferro | TOIS-2022-0383.R1 | Tetsuya Sakai | In-person | ||||
32 | [Short] AI Can Be Cognitively Biased: An Exploratory Study on Threshold Priming in LLM-Based Batch Relevance Assessment (Poster #07) Nuo Chen, Jiqun Liu, Xiaoyu Dong, Qijiong Liu, Tetsuya Sakai and Xiao-Ming Wu | 42 | Jiqun Liu? | In-person? | ||||
33 | [Short] Evaluating Relative Retrieval Effectiveness with Normalized Residual Gain (Poster #08) Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Ebrahim Bagheri and Charles L. A. Clarke | 14 | Amin Bigdeli | In-person | ||||
34 | 14:45 | - | 15:55 | Coffee Break with Posters | ||||
35 | 15:55 | - | 17:35 | Technical Session 3: Users and Simulation Chair: Mohammad Aliannejadi | Rooms 03-05 | |||
36 | Simulating Conversational Search Users with Parameterized Behavior (Poster #09) Ivan Sekulic, Lili Lu, Navdeep Singh Bedi and Fabio Crestani | 59 | Navdeep Singh Bedi | In-person | ||||
37 | Searching in Professional Instant Messaging Applications: User Behaviour, Intent, and Pain-points (Poster #10) Ismail Sabei, Mahmoud Galal, Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon | 31 | Ismail Sabei | In-person | ||||
38 | Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking? (Poster #11) Weronika Łajewska, Krisztian Balog, Damiano Spina and Johanne Trippas | 13 | Weronika Lajewska | Remote | ||||
39 | Investigating Users’ Search Behavior and Outcome with ChatGPT in Learning-oriented Search Tasks (Poster #12) Sijie Liu, Yuyang Hu, Zihang Tian, Zhe Jin, Shijin Ruan and Jiaxin Mao | 10 | Sijie Liu | In-person | ||||
40 | 19:00 | - | Student Gathering at Glade Park Shinjuku https://maps.app.goo.gl/LEYcYWDCUbMx9wPC7 | |||||
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42 | Day 3: Dec 11 (Wed) - Main Conference | Room | ID | Presenter | Type | |||
43 | 8:50 | - | 9:00 | Morning Announcement | Rooms 03-05 | |||
44 | 9:00 | - | 10:00 | Keynote 2: From Data Platforms to Knowledge Infrastructure Sadao Kurohashi (National Institute of Informatics) [Chair: Makoto P. Kato] | Rooms 03-05 | Sadao Kurohashi | In-person | |
45 | 10:00 | - | 10:20 | Coffee Break | ||||
46 | 10:20 | - | 12:00 | Technical Session 4: Evaluation II Chair: Douglas W. Oard | Rooms 03-05 | |||
47 | Pessimistic Evaluation (Poster #13) Fernando Diaz | 70 | Fernando Diaz | In-person | ||||
48 | How do ties affect the uncertainty in Rank-Biased Overlap? (Poster #14) Matteo Corsi and Julián Urbano | 53 | Matteo Corsi | Remote | ||||
49 | Rank-Biased Quality Measurement for Sets and Rankings (Poster #15) Alistair Moffat, Joel Mackenzie, Antonio Mallia and Matthias Petri | 9 | Alistair Moffat | Melbourne | ||||
50 | [TOIS] A Versatile Framework for Evaluating Ranked Lists in terms of Group Fairness and Relevance (Poster #16) Tetsuya Sakai, Jin Young Kim and Inho Kang | TOIS-2022-0094.R1 | Tetsuya Sakai | In-person | ||||
51 | 12:00 | - | 13:10 | Lunch Break (lunchbox) | ||||
52 | 13:10 | - | 14:50 | Technical Session 5: Recommendation and Conversation Chair: Kazunari Sugiyama | Rooms 03-05 | |||
53 | Timing of Aspect Suggestion to Encourage Diverse Information Acquisition in Spoken Conversational Search (Poster #17) Ken Tobioka, Takehiro Yamamoto and Hiroaki Ohshima | 33 | Ken Tobioka | In-person | ||||
54 | Generative Retrieval with Semantic Tree-Structured Identifiers and Contrastive Learning (Poster #18) Zihua Si, Zhongxiang Sun, Jiale Chen, Guozhang Chen, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu and Kun Gai | 12 | Zihua Si | In-person | ||||
55 | It Takes a Team to Triumph: Collaborative Expert Finding in Community QA Networks (Poster #19) Roohollah Etemadi, Morteza Zihayat, Kuan Feng, Jason Adelman, Fattane Zarrinkalam and Ebrahim Bagheri | 8 | Sajad Ebrahimi | In-person | ||||
56 | [TOIS] Personalized Prompt Learning for Explainable Recommendation (Poster #20) Lei Li, Yongfeng Zhang and Li Chen | TOIS-2022-0045.R2 | Lei Li | In-person | ||||
57 | 14:50 | - | 16:00 | Coffee Break with Posters | ||||
58 | 16:00 | - | 17:30 | Technical Session 6: Resource and Reproducibility Chair: Guido Zuccon | Rooms 03-05 | |||
59 | LeKUBE: A Knowledge Update BEnchmark for Legal Domain (Poster #21) Changyue Wang, Weihang Su, Hu Yiran, Qingyao Ai, Yueyue Wu, Cheng Luo, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma | 11 | Changyue Wang | In-person | ||||
60 | Beyond ChatGPT: A Reproducibility Study of Large Language Models for Query Generation (Poster #22) Moritz Staudinger, Wojciech Kusa, Florina Piroi, Aldo Lipani and Allan Hanbury | 80 | Moritz Staudinger | In-person | ||||
61 | [Short] SimIIR 3: A Framework for Simulating Interactive Information Retrieval (Poster #23) Leif Azzopardi, Timo Breuer, Bjoern Engelmann, Christin Kreutz, Sean MacAvaney, David Maxwell, Andrew Parry, Adam Roegiest, Xi Wang and Saber Zerhoudi | 66 | Saber Zerhoudi | In-person | ||||
62 | [Short] Reproducible Hybrid Time-Travel Retrieval in Evolving Corpora (Poster #24) Moritz Staudinger, Florina Piroi and Andreas Rauber | 50 | Moritz Staudinger | In-person | ||||
63 | [Short] Simple Transformers: Open-source for All (Poster #25) Thilina Rajapakse, Andrew Yates and Maarten de Rijke | 18 | Thilina Rajapakse | In-person | ||||
64 | (Move to the banquet venue by bus) | |||||||
65 | 19:00 | - | 21:00 | Banquet at RIHGA Royal Hotel Tokyo https://maps.app.goo.gl/WBGrdFJqQaXFupL27 | ||||
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67 | Day 4: Dec 12 (Thu) - Main Conference & Workshops | Room | ID | Presenter | Type | |||
68 | 8:50 | - | 9:00 | Morning Announcement | Rooms 03-05 | |||
69 | 9:00 | - | 10:40 | Technical Session 7: Efficiency and Users Chair: Charles Clarke | Rooms 03-05 | |||
70 | Binary Interpolative Coding Revisited (Poster #26) Alistair Moffat | 37 | Alistair Moffat | Melbourne | ||||
71 | Data-Efficient Massive Tool Retrieval: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Query-Tool Alignment with Large Language Models (Poster #27) Yuxiang Zhang, Xin Fan, Junjie Wang, Chongxian Chen, Fan Mo, Tetsuya Sakai and Hayato Yamana | 73 | Yuxiang Zhang? | Remote? | ||||
72 | [TOIS] Relevance Feedback with Brain Signals (Poster #28) Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Weihang Su and Min Zhang | TOIS-2023-0144.R1 | Ziyi Ye | In-person | ||||
73 | [Short] Optimizing LLMs with Direct Preferences: A Data Efficiency Perspective (Poster #29) Pietro Bernardelle and Gianluca Demartini | 17 | Pietro Bernardelle | In-person | ||||
74 | [Short] Effect of Presentation Methods on User Experiences and Perception in VR Shopping Recommender Systems (Poster #30) Yang Zhan and Tatsuo Nakajima | 74 | Yang Zhan | In-person | ||||
75 | 10:40 | - | 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
76 | 11:00 | - | 12:30 | Technical Session 8: NLP and Search Chair: Haitao Yu | Rooms 03-05 | |||
77 | Effect of LLM's Personality Traits on Query Generation (Poster #31) Yuta Imasaka and Hideo Joho | 88 | Yuta Imasaka | In-person | ||||
78 | Is Vec2Text Really a Threat to Dense Retrieval Systems? (Poster #32) Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Xiaoran Chu and Guido Zuccon | 25 | Shengyao Zhuang | In-person | ||||
79 | [Short] Triple Augmented Generative Language Models for SPARQL Query Generation from Natural Language Questions (Poster #33) Jack Longwell, Mahdiyar Ali Akbar Alavi, Fattane Zarrinkalam and Faezeh Ensan | 65 | Jack Longwell? | In-person | ||||
80 | [Short] Data Fusion of Synthetic Query Variants With Generative Large Language Models (Poster #34) Timo Breuer | 57 | Timo Breuer | Remote | ||||
81 | [Short] UnAnswGen: A Systematic Approach for Generating Unanswerable Questions in Machine Reading Comprehension (Poster #35) Hadiseh Moradisani, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Julien Serbanescu and Zeinab Noorian | 21 | Hadiseh Moradisani | In-person | ||||
82 | 12:30 | - | 13:00 | Closing (best paper announcements and photos) | Rooms 03-05 | |||
83 | 13:00 | - | 14:40 | Lunch Break (on your own) | ||||
84 | 14:40 | - | 16:10 | Workshop 1: R3AG - First Workshop on Refined and Reliable Retrieval Augmented Generation Zihan Wang, Xuri Ge, Joemon Jose, Haitao Yu, Weizhi Ma, Zhaochun Ren and Xin Xin | Room 03 | |||
85 | Workshop 2: EMTCIR - The First Workshop on Evaluation Methodologies, Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research Makoto P. Kato, Noriko Kando, Charles Clarke and Yiqun Liu | Room 04 | In-person | |||||
86 | Workshop 3: UM-CIR - The 1st Workshop on User Modelling in Conversational Information Retrieval Praveen Acharya, Gareth J.F Jones, Xiao Fu, Aldo Lipani, Fabio Crestani and Noriko Kando | Room 05 | ||||||
87 | 16:10 | - | 16:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
88 | 16:30 | - | 18:00 | Workshop 1: R3AG - First Workshop on Refined and Reliable Retrieval Augmented Generation Zihan Wang, Xuri Ge, Joemon Jose, Haitao Yu, Weizhi Ma, Zhaochun Ren and Xin Xin | Room 03 | |||
89 | Workshop 2: EMTCIR - The First Workshop on Evaluation Methodologies, Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research Makoto P. Kato, Noriko Kando, Charles Clarke and Yiqun Liu | Room 04 | In-person | |||||
90 | Workshop 3: UM-CIR - The 1st Workshop on User Modelling in Conversational Information Retrieval Praveen Acharya, Gareth J.F Jones, Xiao Fu, Aldo Lipani, Fabio Crestani and Noriko Kando | Room 05 | ||||||
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92 | Poster-only TOIS presentations | |||||||
93 | [TOIS] Topic-aware Intention Network for Explainable Recommendation with Knowledge Enhancement (Poster #36) Qiming Li, Zhao Zhang, Fuzhen Zhuang, Yongjun Xu and Chao Li | |||||||
94 | [TOIS] Understanding and Predicting User Satisfaction with Conversational Recommender Systems (Poster #37) Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Maarten de Rijke | |||||||