Nicola Ferro

📣📣 Registration to SIGIR 2025 is now open at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/registration.h… Deadlines: - Author: May 9 - Early: May 20 - Regular: June 13 - Late: July 18 You can ask for a VISA letter (sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/visa-appl.html) and for Childcare service (sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/child-care.html).

🏨 🛏️ The #sigir2025 HOTELS are now available! sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/recommended-ho… sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/accomodation.h… ⚠️ WARNING Sunday 13 July there will be the Iron Maiden concert in Padua (the only Italian date). Accommodations are expected to fill up quickly, so be proactive in booking 🤟

📣 📣 The #sigir2025 LiveRAG Challenge is open at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/live-rag-chall… Prizes: - First Prize: $5000 - Second Prize: $3000 - Third Prize: $2000 Deadlines: - Application submission deadline: February 24, 2025 More info? Ask sigir2025-liverag-gen@tii.ae.

Next #sigir2025 calls: 1) SHORT PAPERS 2) RESOURCE & REPRODUCIBILITY PAPERS 3) PERSPECTIVES PAPERS 4) DEMO PAPERS Deadlines AoE: - Abstracts due: February 4, 2025 - Papers due: February 18, 2025 [mind the 2 weeks gap] All calls at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it

@frrncl is offering is offering his talk for the Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award 2024 Bravo Nicola! @clef_initiative

📚 New book alert 🎉 Read "Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques," from our Director of Research @PolarBearby and Senior Manager of Applied Science at @Amazon and @Northeastern Faculty Member @elunca, in @TheOfficialACM here: bit.ly/4iFKMN3

Are you eager to contribute to the success of SIGIR 2025? You can self-nominate yourself for becoming a PC member for #sigir2025 at forms.gle/MdJrM8VsGUeHLU… We will process the self-nominations at the time of reviewer invitations in EasyChair; do not expect an immediate reply

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for short papers sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-short-pap… Share your research in IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Abstracts: Feb 4, 2025 - Short papers: Feb 18, 2025 - Notifications: Apr 4, 2025 Ask @ebrahim_bagheri @fhasibi @joelmmackenzie at sigir2025-short@dei.unipd.it

📣 📣 #sigir2025 doctoral consortium, discuss with seniors sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-doctoral-… Deadlines: - Submission: Feb 27, 2025 - Notifications: Apr 4, 2025 - DC: Jul 13, 2025 More info? Ask @bemikelive, @behrouzmansoury, and Isabelle Moulinier at sigir2025-doctoral@dei.unipd.it.

Humbled and deeply honored to receive the prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award for 2024! 🎉 Thanks to all the colleagues and the @clef_initiative community who made this possible. On 9 Jan, my lecture on "Growing up in Cranfield, Maturing in Generative IR" cilip.org.uk/members/group_…

📢Call for Papers! The QPP++ 2025 workshop on Query Performance Prediction in the era of LLMs w/ @guglielm0f, @maliannejadi, @frrncl, @JosianeMotheFr will be held @ecir2025 #ECIR2025 in Lucca, Italy🇮🇹. 🔗 Website: qppworkshop.github.io 🗓 Submit papers by 24 Feb 2025 #IR #NLP

Thank you @elunca and @PolarBearby for making this book happen and pursuing it until the end: it is great to have un up-to-date book in the field! Happy to have contributed, together with Maria Maistro, with a chapter on experimental evaluation 😄

📣 📣 The #sigir2025 call for Low-Resource Environments is out at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/low-resource-e… Deadlines - Submission: March 3, 2025 - Notification: March 31, 2025 Need more information? Ask our Chairs @CatherinChavula, @claclarke, and Doug Oard at sigir2025-lowresenv@dei.unipd.it

Habemus #Dagstuhl Report! #Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. doi.org/10.4230/DagRep… Edited by @alansaid , @eva_zangerle, and yours truly - and written by many, many brilliant minds in our #recsys community. Too many to mention (pic here dagstuhl.de/24211) @dagstuhl

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for workshops sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-workshops… Let's brainstorm on IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Submission: Jan 9, 2025 - Notification: Feb 6, 2025 - Workshop day: Jul 17, 2025 More info? Ask @kallumadi @zhaochun_ren at sigir2025-workshop@dei.unipd.it

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for full papers sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-full-pape… Share your research in IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Abstracts: Jan 16, 2025 - Full papers: Jan 23, 2025 - Notifications: Mar 28, 2025 More info? Ask @elunca @suzan @andrew_trotman at sigir2025-pc@dei.unipd.it

Happy and honored for the Best Resource Paper Award at #CIKM2024 to pyPANTERA: A Python PAckage for Natural language obfuscaTion Enforcing pRivacy & Anonymization joint work with Francesco L. De Faveri and @guglielm0f doi.org/10.1145/362767… @cikm2024 @acmcikm @iiia_unipd

Interested in exploring how to predict query difficulty in the era of LLMs? @guglielm0f, @maliannejadi, @frrncl, @JosianeMotheFr, and I will be organising a workshop on Query Performance Prediction at @ecir2025 #ECIR2025 The call for papers will be announced soon—stay tuned!

In search of a privacy tool to protect your queries? Proud to announce that our resource paper "pyPANTERA: A Python PAckage for Natural language obfuscaTion Enforcing pRivacy & Anonymization" has been accepted at #CIKM2024 W @Kekkodf7, @guglielm0f, @frrncl github.com/Kekkodf/pypant…

If you're attending @SIGIRConf, please joins us in the Congressional Ballroom tomorrow for: 👉🏽 DEI session @ 12.30pm (lunch included). We have a panel discussion with @UnderdogGeek, Clemencia Siro, @vanessa_murdock, Doug Oard & @frrncl. 👉🏽 Women in IR session @ 5:30pm. #SIGIR2024