At our SCOLIA workshop at #ECIR2026 we introduced shared tasks. UP2DATE@SCOLIA focusses on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews. Interested? Check out https://up2date.health-nlp.com
@hscells @potthast @carsten
@ecir2026.eu
Daniil on stage
#ECIR2026 presentation by Savvina Daniil: "On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems: The effect of data characteristics and algorithm configuration", the first paper of #IRRJ Volume 1 Number 1: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-2869
(this paper was presented at #RecSys too!)
Nunes on stage receiving a paper copy of the issue with his paper
#ECIR2026 again: Sérgio Nunes presented the #IRRJ paper "Evaluating Dense Model-based Approaches for Multimodal Medical Case Retrieval" https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5000-6333
Pink button with a big text "Data Lover" and tiny "www.gesis.org"
Thank you, @GESIS for the beautiful button! I think it looks good on me
Emma Gerritsen on stage, shrugging expressively
More #ECIR2026! Emma Gerritse presented the #IRRJ paper "Graph Embeddings to Empower Entity Retrieval"
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3389-1643
Bye everyone! Had a great time at #ECIR2026 and am looking forward to South Hampton in 2027, or, who knows, Melbourne this "summer", or even sooner, in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Nijmegen, etc
Feeling inspired!
Jimmy Lin 🪄 sharing his ongoing (agentic?) loop between 🤯 and 🤷♂️ state of mind wrt coding and GenAI.
Reproducibility, yes, but for who? For our students, or for our students' coding agents?
Will teaching class just become sharing the SKILL.md file? Do we only […]
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Laura Caspari presented CoRECT to improve benchmarking RAG experiments while considering dimensionality and quantisation.
https://github.com/padas-lab-de/CoRECT
Slides from my presentation on the IRRJ paper on "Emancipatory Information Retrieval": bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... #ECIR2026 #IRRJ
cc: @ecir2026.eu
Jan Heinrich Merker presents work - with Harrison Scells @hscells.bsky.social and Martin Potthast @martin-potthast.com - on better support infra for mining the Archive Query Log.
See also:
https://github.com/webis-de/archive-query-log
(Followup on the earlier SIGIR paper.)
#ECIR2026
Mitra receives a paper copy of the issue that includes their paper
Bhaskar Mitra presented the #IRRJ paper: "Emancipatory Information Retrieval" at #ECIR2026
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.24531
(Photo: Mitra receives a paper copy of the issue that includes their paper)
Djoerd Hiemstra thanking the editors
Today, at the European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026, authors of #IRRJ papers presented their work in a dedicated #IRRJ session. A big thank you to our editors for running the journal!
@djoerd wrapping up the IRRJ (pronounced by some as "urge") session emphasizing the importance of Diamond Open Access, reminding us that you can also present your paper at FIRE (in December), the work behind the scenes to get the journal included in established […]
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Tetsuya presents us a series of early easter eggs from the evaluation literature: metrics, user models, etc
Eg, did you know Van Rijsbergen introduced E not F in his books?!
https://waseda.app.box.com/v/ecir2026kvraward
#ECIR2026
Now Yiqun Liu introducing Tetsuya Sakai as the Keith van Rijsbergen award winner!
What an excellent choice 🤗
#ECIR2026
Hello if you think this expression on my face is mischief and provocation you would be correct. Having an absolute blast at #ECIR2026 #IR4Good - thank you for letting me show up to to talk about how important (good) IR is for global democracies!
Tomorrow, I am looking forward to presenting my IRRJ paper on "Emancipatory Information Retrieval" (irrj.org/article/view...) at the conference. If you are attending ECIR, please drop by! #ECIR2026
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Photo of the panelists and moderator on stage.
...an engaging panel with critical conversations between Madeleine Daepp, @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy, @sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social, and myself, moderated by my wonderful co-track chair @mariaheuss.bsky.social. #ECIR2026 #IR4Good
(Photo credit: @arjenpdevries.bsky.social)
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This year, we chose the theme for the track to be "What is IR-for-Good?" to draw attention to the fact that "societal good" is still very under-theorized in the field of IR. This is a critical open question that the community needs to develop a shared understanding of. #ECIR2026 #IR4Good
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As Day 3 of @ecir2026.eu comes to a close, I am still buzzing from all the exciting research presentations and conversations in the IR-for-Good track in the last couple of days! #ECIR2026 #IR4Good
Track opening presentation: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/ECIR20...
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@ecir2026.eu in full swing in Delft, and next year ECIR will come home to the UK. But where will it be in 2028? It could be in your city! The BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) is calling for bids for ECIR 2028 – […]
Our #ECIR2026 paper on "remote querying" Web indexes in Parquet files on S3 using #DuckDB
Paper:
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Want to try it yourself?
Docs in the #openwebsearch book:
openwebsearcheu-public.pages.it4i.eu/ows-the-book...
Code:
gitlab.science.ru.nl/informagus/r...
Mohanna Hoveyda presenting our work on the Oracle and the Logician, OrLog, where the LLM provides plausibility estimates for clauses in an (auto generated) Probabilistic Prolog program that will produce the answer to complex entity queries.
The approach seperates […]
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Two #ECIR2026 keynote presentations by researchers from Microsoft at the European Conference on Information Retrieval. They could not have been much more different. Today, Madeleine Daepp, who also works for Public Democracy America, discussed the challenges that generative AI poses for […]
"Gemini lies on top of the search results rankings"
My main take-away from 2nd #ECIR2026 keynote titled "Gemini Hegemony".
And, that we **must** find wars to unravel and disarm the effects of GenAI manipulations in context of Naomi Klein's shock doctrine.
(Those sleeping in today, you miss out!)
Djoerd's talk naturally led into the panel closing the IR for Good sessions today.
Moderator Maria Heuse and panelists Bhaskar Mitra, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Madeleine I. G. Daepp, and Djoerd Hiemstra; left to right in the photo attached.
Highlights include:
Bring […]
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@djoerd Second goal: Web search should be a collaborative effort.
Draws an analogy to car industry, where many brands share the same "platform" (the car body).
Just like OWS.EU does this!
Third goal:
We need open standards for Web search "production lines" […]
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Keynote by @djoerd about Web search as a public utility, and of course https://ows.eu
Note the #openwebsearch and #DuckDB stickers on the laptop 😉
Hello #ECIR2026, the proceedings of our SCOLIA workshop on Thursday are online – https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4187/ Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing you. Happy reading!
Hello #ECIR2026, the proceedings of our SCOLIA workshop on Thursday are online – ceur-ws.org/Vol-4187/. Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing you. Happy reading!
