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
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
Slides from my presentation on the IRRJ paper on "Emancipatory Information Retrieval": bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... #ECIR2026 #IRRJ
cc: @ecir2026.eu
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!
The presentations for the #IRRJ session at the at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 are now in the conference schedule at: ecir2026.eu/programme/program-schedu...
BREAKING: There will be an #IRRJ paper session at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 on 1 April in Delft, The Netherlands. https://ecir2026.eu
Published at #IRRJ: "CRAWLDoc: A System for Contextual Ranking and Bibliographic Metadata Extraction from Web Resources" by Fabian Karl and Ansgar Scherp. #DocumentRanking, #BibliographicMetadataExtraction, #ScholarlyDataset
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23861
There will be an #IRRJ special issue on #FIRE: Participants of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025), which took place from 17 to 20 December 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, are invited to submit an extended version of their FIRE 2025 paper.
Cover of IRRJ 1(2) including the logo and table of contents
Look at the beautiful cover of this #IRRJ issue. This is what perfection looks like:
The PDF of the full #IRRJ issue, Volume 1 Number 2 of December 2025 is now available online at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no2 #InformationRetrieval
In the second issue of #IRRJ, Paul Kantor writes the editorial, arguing for a more critical adoption of generative AI in information retrieval. He puts his concerns under three distinct headings: consistency, confidence, and completeness. #GenAI, #GenerativeAI, #InformationRetrieval […]
BREAKING: Today, at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, we announced a partnership between #FIRE2025 and #IRRJ. There will be an IRRJ special issue on FIRE! 🔥 More information to be shared here soon.
Published at #IRRJ: "Emancipatory Information Retrieval" by Bhaskar Mitra. #InformationRetrieval, #Society, #EmancipatoryPraxis, #TechnologyAndPower
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.24531
Published at #IRRJ: "Exploring Embedding Interpretability by Correspondences Between Topic Models and Text Embeddings" by Meng Yuan, Lida Rashidi, and Justin Zobel. #InformationRetrieval, #EmbeddingInterpretability, #Explanability, #TopicModelling
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23703
Published at #IRRJ: "An Eigensystem for Topic Term Weighting yields Fair and Effective Document Rankings" by Massimo Melucci. #InformationRetrieval, #GroupFairness, #ProbabilityRankingPrinciple, #Eigensystem
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23480
Published at #IRRJ: "Effectiveness of In-Context Learning for Due Diligence: A Reproducibility Study of Identifying Passages for Due Diligence by Madhukar Dwivedi and Jaap Kamps. #InformationRetrieval, #LegalSearch, #DueDiligence, #PassageRetrieval
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.22626
Congratulations to Savvina Daniil for winning the Women in RecSys Journal Paper of the Year award for her #IRRJ paper "On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems"!
The award came with a free #RecSys2025 registration and the opportunity to present the IRRJ paper at the main […]
Hard copy of IRRJ, plus Dagstuhl name tags of Johanne Trippas and Djoerd Hiemstra
It turned out that indexing by @dblp requires the editors to bring a #IRRJ paper copy to the #Dagstuhl library in person, signed. Djoerd and Johanne did just that this week!
Published at #IRRJ: "Evaluating Dense Model-based Approaches for Multimodal Medical Case Retrieval" by Catarina Pires, Sérgio Nunes, and Luís Teixeira.
#MedicalSearch, #MultimodalRetrieval, #DenseRetrieval
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19769
Published at #IRRJ: "Evaluating Dense Model-based Approaches for Multimodal Medical Case Retrieval" by Catarina Pires, Sérgio Nunes, and Luís Teixeira.
#MedicalSearch, #MultimodalRetrieval, #DenseRetrieval
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19769
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Oh dear, the #IRRJ website is down... (no, we did not push to production on Friday afternoon). We are working on it. Please, be patient
Lucky to witness #IRRJ editor-in-chief @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy signing a copy of the first edition of @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy for Ian Soboroff, author of the paper “Don’t Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments” in the volume.
#SIGIR2025
irrj.org/article/view...
Djoerd Hiemstra proudly holding a copy of the first issue
Never seen our editor in chief, Djoerd Hiemstra, more happy than today, holding a copy of the first issue of #IRRJ
Published at #IRRJ: " A survey of Inclusive Information Access " byYue Zheng, Haiming Liu, Mike Wald #InclusiveInformationAccess, #InformationRetrieval, #DigitalDivide
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.21092
Published at #IRRJ: "Graph Embeddings to Empower Entity Retrieval" by Emma J. Gerritse, Faegheh Hasibi, and Arjen P. de Vries:
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19877
Cool #IRRJ paper by Charlie Clarke: Annotative Indexing.
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19910
"Annotative indexing can provide the underlying indexing framework for databases that support knowledge graphs, entity retrieval, semi-structured data, and ranked retrieval. (...) we provide examples […]
Published at #IRRJ: " Annotative Indexing" by Charles Clarke. #Search, #Indexing, #InvertedIndexes, #MinimalIintervalSemantics
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19910
Published at #IRRJ: "Supporting Evidence-Based Medicine by Finding Both Relevant and Significant Works" by Sameh Frihat and Norbert Fuhr. #MedicalDocumentFacade, #LoE, #LevelOfEvidence, #EvidenceBasedMedicine
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19784
