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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

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RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

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DistributedANN: Efficient Scaling of a Single DiskANN Graph Across Thousands of Computers

Philip Adams, Menghao Li, Shi Zhang, Li Tan, Mingqin Li, Qi Chen, Knut Magne Risvik, Jason (Zengzhong) Li, Harsha Simhadri

The 1st Workshop on Vector Databases at the 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning | July 2025

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System comparison using automated generation of relevance judgements in multiple languages

Paul Thomas, Douglas W Oard, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield

2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2025

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MOGIC: Metadata-Infused Oracle Guidance for Improved Extreme Classification

Suchith Chidananda Prabhu, Bhavyajeet Singh, Anshul Mittal, Siddarth Asokan, Shikhar Mohan, Deepak Saini, Yashoteja Prabhu, Lakshya Kumar, Jian Jiao, Amit Singh, Niket Tandon, Manish Gupta, Sumeet Agarwal, Manik Varma

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Graph-Based Algorithms for Diverse Similarity Search

Piyush Anand, Piotr Indyk, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Sepideh Mahabadi, Vikas C. Raykar, Kiran Shiragur, Haike Xu

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Demographically-inspired query variants using an LLM

Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson

International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025

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Preaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR should share with AI

Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P de Vries, Guido Zuccon

International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025

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Report from the 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2025)

Johanne R Trippas, J. Shane Culpepper, Mohammad Aliannejadi, James Allan, Enrique Amigó, Jaime Arguello, Leif Azzopardi, Peter Bailey, Jamie Callan, Rob Capra, Nick Craswell, Bruce Croft, Jeff Dalton, Gianluca Demartini, Laura Dietz, Zhicheng Dou, Carsten Eickhoff, Michael Ekstrand, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Dorota Glowacka, Faegheh Hasibi, Danula Hettiachchi, Rosie Jones, Jaap Kamps, Noriko Kando, Sarvnaz Karimi, Makoto P. Kato, Bevan Koopman, Yiqun Liu, Chenglong Ma, Joel Mackenzie, Maria Maistro, Jiaxin Mao, Dana McKay, Bhaskar Mitra, Stefano Mizzaro, Alistair Moffat, Josiane Mothe, Iadh Ounis, Lida Rashidi, Yongli Ren, Mark Sanderson, Rodrygo Santos, Falk Scholer, Chirag A Shah, Laurianne Sitbon, Ian Soboroff, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Julián Urbano, Arjen P. de Vries, Ryen W. White, Abby Yuan, Hamed Zamani, Oleg Zendel, Min Zhang, Shengyao Zhuang, Justin Zobel, Guido Zuccon

ACM SIGIR Forum | June 2025, Vol 59(1): pp. 1-68

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Towards Safer Pretraining: Analyzing and Filtering Harmful Content in Webscale datasets for Responsible LLMs

Sai Krishna Mendu, Harish Yenala, Aditi Gulati, Shanu Kumar, Parag Agrawal

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | May 2025

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Data from Thomas et al., SIGIR2025: multi- and cross-lingual relevance labelling with LLMs

These are the prompts and qrels used for the experiments in Thomas et al., “System Comparison using Automated Generation of Relevance Judgements in Multiple Languages”, SIGIR 2025.

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Emancipatory Information Retrieval (Invited Talk at UCC)

April 22, 2025 | Bhaskar Mitra

Our world today is facing a confluence of several mutually reinforcing crises each of which intersects with concerns of social justice and emancipation. This talk will be a provocation for the role of computer-mediated information…

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