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Bridging the Gap: From Ad-hoc to Proactive Search in Conversations

Chuan Meng, Francesco Tonolini, Fengran Mo, Nikolaos Aletras, Emine Yilmaz, Gabriella Kazai

机构 * University of Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹大学） ； Amazon（亚马逊） ； Université de Montréal（蒙特利尔大学） ； University of Sheffield（谢菲尔德大学） ； University College London（伦敦大学学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted as a full paper at SIGIR 2025

Reassessing Large Language Model Boolean Query Generation for Systematic Reviews

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

机构 * The University of Queensland（昆士兰大学） ； University of Tübingen（图宾根大学） ； CSIRO（澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织） 纠错

Comments Accepted in SIGIR-2025

CoMaPOI: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Next POI Prediction Bridging the Gap Between Trajectory and Language

Lin Zhong, Lingzhi Wang, Xu Yang, Qing Liao

机构 * Department of Computer Science and Technology of Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen（哈尔滨工业大学深圳研究院计算机科学与技术系） 纠错

Comments This paper has been accepted by SIGIR 2025

Pre-training for Recommendation Unlearning

Guoxuan Chen, Lianghao Xia, Chao Huang

机构 * The University of Hong Kong（香港大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to SIGIR 2025 Oral

Walk&Retrieve: Simple Yet Effective Zero-shot Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Knowledge Graph Walks

Martin Böckling, Heiko Paulheim, Andreea Iana

机构 * University of Mannheim（曼海姆大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted at the Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2025) in conjunction with SIGIR 2025

Aligning Web Query Generation with Ranking Objectives via Direct Preference Optimization

João Coelho, Bruno Martins, João Magalhães, Chenyan Xiong

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025

RankLLM: A Python Package for Reranking with LLMs

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Ronak Pradeep, Andre Slavescu, Ryan Nguyen, Andrew Xu, Zijian Chen, Yilin Zhang, Yidi Chen, Jasper Xian, Jimmy Lin

Comments SIGIR 2025

DLF: Enhancing Explicit-Implicit Interaction via Dynamic Low-Order-Aware Fusion for CTR Prediction

Kefan Wang, Hao Wang, Wei Guo, Yong Liu, Jianghao Lin, Defu Lian, Enhong Chen

Comments Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '25)

Benchmarking Recommendation, Classification, and Tracing Based on Hugging Face Knowledge Graph

Qiaosheng Chen, Kaijia Huang, Xiao Zhou, Weiqing Luo, Yuanning Cui, Gong Cheng

Comments 10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted at SIGIR 2025

Journal ref Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025

Content Moderation in TV Search: Balancing Policy Compliance, Relevance, and User Experience

Adeep Hande, Kishorekumar Sundararajan, Sardar Hamidian, Ferhan Ture

机构 * Applied AI Research, Comcast（应用人工智能研究，康卡斯特） ； Comcast AI Technologies（康卡斯特人工智能技术） 纠错

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025 Industry Track. 5 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables. DOI: 10.1145/3726302.3731962

Evaluating RAG-Fusion with RAGElo: an Automated Elo-based Framework

Zackary Rackauckas, Arthur Câmara, Jakub Zavrel

Comments Accepted to LLM4Eval @ SIGIR24

Journal ref Proceedings of The First Workshop on Large Language Models for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) co-located with 10th International Conference on Online Publishing (SIGIR 2024)

Resource for Error Analysis in Text Simplification: New Taxonomy and Test Collection

Benjamin Vendeville, Liana Ermakova, Pierre De Loor

机构 * Université de Bretagne Occidentale（布列塔恩西大学） ； Lab-STICC (UMR CNRS 6285)（实验室） ； ENIB 纠错

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025

COHESION: Composite Graph Convolutional Network with Dual-Stage Fusion for Multimodal Recommendation

Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Wei Wang, Xiping Hu, Sang-Wook Kim, Edith C. H. Ngai

Comments Accepted by SIGIR 2025

An Alternative to FLOPS Regularization to Effectively Productionize SPLADE-Doc

Aldo Porco, Dhruv Mehra, Igor Malioutov, Karthik Radhakrishnan, Moniba Keymanesh, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Sean MacAvaney, Pengxiang Cheng

机构 * Bloomberg New York, United States（彭博纽约，美国） ； University of Glasgow（格拉斯哥大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted as a short paper at SIGIR 2025

Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections

Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Saber Zerhoudi, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang

Comments 11 pages, 6 tables, 5 figures, Accepted to SIGIR 2025

NExT-Search: Rebuilding User Feedback Ecosystem for Generative AI Search

Sunhao Dai, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, See-Kiong Ng, Ji-Rong Wen, Tat-Seng Chua

机构 * Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence（光明人工智能学院） ； Renmin University of China（中国人民大学） ； University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学） ； CAS Key Laboratory of AI Safety（中国科学院人工智能安全重点实验室） ； Institute of Computing Technology（计算技术研究所） ； Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院） ； National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学） 纠错

Comments SIGIR 2025 Perspective Paper

DIFF: Dual Side-Information Filtering and Fusion for Sequential Recommendation

Hye-young Kim, Minjin Choi, Sunkyung Lee, Ilwoong Baek, Jongwuk Lee

Comments Accepted by SIGIR 2025. 10 pages

LLM-based Query Expansion Fails for Unfamiliar and Ambiguous Queries

Kenya Abe, Kunihiro Takeoka, Makoto P. Kato, Masafumi Oyamada

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025 short paper track

Unveiling Knowledge Utilization Mechanisms in LLM-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yuhao Wang, Ruiyang Ren, Yucheng Wang, Wayne Xin Zhao, Jing Liu, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

机构 * GSAI, Renmin University of China（人工智能研究院，中国人民大学） ； Baidu Inc.（百度公司） 纠错

Comments SIGIR 2025

The Effects of Demographic Instructions on LLM Personas

Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula, J. Shane Culpepper, Alistair Moffat, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Falk Scholer, Johanne Trippas

Comments Accepted at SIGIR'25, Padua, Italy

Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025)

Philipp Schaer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Krisztian Balog, Timo Breuer, Andreas Konstantin Kruff

机构 * TH Köln Cologne Germany（TH Köln） 纠错

Comments Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '25), July 13--18, 2025, Padua, Italy

DiSCo: LLM Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Sparse Retrieval in Conversational Search

Simon Lupart, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Evangelos Kanoulas

机构 * University of Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹大学） 纠错

Comments 11 pages, 6 figures. SIGIR '25 Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval July 13--18, 2025 Padua, Italy

Question-Answering Dense Video Events

Hangyu Qin, Junbin Xiao, Angela Yao

机构 * National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to SIGIR'25

Mitigating Modality Bias in Multi-modal Entity Alignment from a Causal Perspective

Taoyu Su, Jiawei Sheng, Duohe Ma, Xiaodong Li, Juwei Yue, Mengxiao Song, Yingkai Tang, Tingwen Liu

机构 * Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（信息工程研究所，中国科学院） ； School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（网络安全学院，中国科学院大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by SIGIR 2025, 11 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables,

FACTors: A New Dataset for Studying the Fact-checking Ecosystem

Enes Altuncu, Can Başkent, Sanjay Bhattacherjee, Shujun Li, Dwaipayan Roy

Comments Accepted for the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '25)

The Truth Becomes Clearer Through Debate! Multi-Agent Systems with Large Language Models Unmask Fake News

Yuhan Liu, Yuxuan Liu, Xiaoqing Zhang, Xiuying Chen, Rui Yan

机构 * Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China（仁爱大学人工智能学院） ； Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学） 纠错

Comments SIGIR 2025

Interest Changes: Considering User Interest Life Cycle in Recommendation System

Yinjiang Cai, Jiangpan Hou, Yangping Zhu, Yuan Nie

Comments Accepted by SIGIR 2025

Lost in Transliteration: Bridging the Script Gap in Neural IR

Andreas Chari, Iadh Ounis, Sean MacAvaney

Comments 6 pages, 2 tables. paper accepted at the Short Paper track of The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Alleviating LLM-based Generative Retrieval Hallucination in Alipay Search

Yedan Shen, Kaixin Wu, Yuechen Ding, Jingyuan Wen, Hong Liu, Mingjie Zhong, Zhouhan Lin, Jia Xu, Linjian Mo

机构 * LUMIA Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（LUMIA实验室，上海交通大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by SIGIR 2025

Journal ref SIGIR 2025

DARLR: Dual-Agent Offline Reinforcement Learning for Recommender Systems with Dynamic Reward

Yi Zhang, Ruihong Qiu, Xuwei Xu, Jiajun Liu, Sen Wang

Comments SIGIR 2025