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SIGIR-AP 2024: Tokyo, Japan
- Tetsuya Sakai, Emi Ishita, Hiroaki Ohshima, Faegheh Hasibi, Jiaxin Mao, Joemon M. Jose:
Proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, SIGIR-AP 2024, Tokyo, Japan, December 9-12, 2024. ACM 2024, ISBN 979-8-4007-0724-7
Keynote 1
- Momoe Makino
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Information Experiment: What Does Empirical Microeconomics Tell Us? 1
Session 1: Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Jisoo Jang
, Wen-Syan Li
:
AU-RAG: Agent-based Universal Retrieval Augmented Generation. 2-11 - Heydar Soudani
, Evangelos Kanoulas
, Faegheh Hasibi
:
Fine Tuning vs. Retrieval Augmented Generation for Less Popular Knowledge. 12-22 - Weihang Su
, Yichen Tang
, Qingyao Ai
, Changyue Wang
, Zhijing Wu
, Yiqun Liu
:
Mitigating Entity-Level Hallucination in Large Language Models. 23-31
Session 2: Evaluation I
- Marwah Alaofi
, Paul Thomas
, Falk Scholer
, Mark Sanderson
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LLMs can be Fooled into Labelling a Document as Relevant: best café near me; this paper is perfectly relevant. 32-41 - Negar Arabzadeh
, Fernando Diaz
, Junfeng He
:
Offline Evaluation of Set-Based Text-to-Image Generation. 42-53 - Nuo Chen
, Jiqun Liu
, Xiaoyu Dong
, Qijiong Liu
, Tetsuya Sakai
, Xiao-Ming Wu
:
AI Can Be Cognitively Biased: An Exploratory Study on Threshold Priming in LLM-Based Batch Relevance Assessment. 54-63 - Amin Bigdeli
, Negar Arabzadeh
, Ebrahim Bagheri
, Charles L. A. Clarke
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Evaluating Relative Retrieval Effectiveness with Normalized Residual Gain. 64-71
Session 3: Users and Simulation
- Ivan Sekulic
, Lili Lu
, Navdeep Singh Bedi
, Fabio Crestani
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Simulating Conversational Search Users with Parameterized Behavior. 72-81 - Ismail Sabei
, Mahmoud Galal
, Bevan Koopman
, Guido Zuccon
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Searching in Professional Instant Messaging Applications: User Behaviour, Intent, and Pain-points. 82-91 - Weronika Lajewska
, Krisztian Balog
, Damiano Spina
, Johanne Trippas
:
Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking? 92-102 - Sijie Liu
, Yuyang Hu
, Zihang Tian
, Zhe Jin
, Shijin Ruan
, Jiaxin Mao
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Investigating Users' Search Behavior and Outcome with ChatGPT in Learning-oriented Search Tasks. 103-113
Keynote 2
- Sadao Kurohashi
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From Data Platforms to Knowledge Infrastructure. 114
Session 4: Evaluation II
- Fernando Diaz
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Pessimistic Evaluation. 115-124 - Matteo Corsi
, Julián Urbano:
How do Ties Affect the Uncertainty in Rank-Biased Overlap? 125-134 - Alistair Moffat
, Joel Mackenzie
, Antonio Mallia
, Matthias Petri
:
Rank-Biased Quality Measurement for Sets and Rankings. 135-144
Session 5: Recommendation and Conversation
- Ken Tobioka
, Takehiro Yamamoto
, Hiroaki Ohshima
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Timing of Aspect Suggestion to Encourage Diverse Information Acquisition in Spoken Conversational Search. 145-153 - Zihua Si, Zhongxiang Sun, Jiale Chen, Guozhang Chen, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Kun Gai:
Generative Retrieval with Semantic Tree-Structured Identifiers and Contrastive Learning. 154-163 - Roohollah Etemadi
, Morteza Zihayat
, Kuan Feng
, Jason Adelman
, Fattane Zarrinkalam
, Ebrahim Bagheri
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It Takes a Team to Triumph: Collaborative Expert Finding in Community QA Networks. 164-174
Session 6: Resource and Reproducibility
- Changyue Wang
, Weihang Su
, Yiran Hu
, Qingyao Ai
, Yueyue Wu
, Cheng Luo
, Yiqun Liu
, Min Zhang
, Shaoping Ma
:
LeKUBE: A Knowledge Update BEnchmark for Legal Domain. 175-185 - Moritz Staudinger
, Wojciech Kusa
, Florina Piroi
, Aldo Lipani
, Allan Hanbury
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A Reproducibility and Generalizability Study of Large Language Models for Query Generation. 186-196 - Leif Azzopardi
, Timo Breuer
, Björn Engelmann, Christin Kreutz
, Sean MacAvaney
, David Maxwell
, Andrew Parry
, Adam Roegiest
, Xi Wang
, Saber Zerhoudi
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SimIIR 3: A Framework for the Simulation of Interactive and Conversational Information Retrieval. 197-202 - Moritz Staudinger
, Florina Piroi
, Andreas Rauber
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Reproducible Hybrid Time-Travel Retrieval in Evolving Corpora. 203-208 - Thilina Chaturanga Rajapakse
, Andrew Yates
, Maarten de Rijke
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Simple Transformers: Open-source for All. 209-215
Session 7: Efficiency and Users
- Alistair Moffat
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Binary Interpolative Coding Revisited. 216-225 - Yuxiang Zhang
, Xin Fan
, Junjie Wang
, Chongxian Chen
, Fan Mo
, Tetsuya Sakai
, Hayato Yamana
:
Data-Efficient Massive Tool Retrieval: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Query-Tool Alignment with Language Models. 226-235 - Pietro Bernardelle
, Gianluca Demartini
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Optimizing LLMs with Direct Preferences: A Data Efficiency Perspective. 236-240 - Yang Zhan
, Tatsuo Nakajima
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Effect of Presentation Methods on User Experiences and Perception in VR Shopping Recommender Systems. 241-248
Session 8: NLP and Search
- Yuta Imasaka
, Hideo Joho
:
Effect of LLM's Personality Traits on Query Generation. 249-258 - Shengyao Zhuang
, Bevan Koopman
, Xiaoran Chu
, Guido Zuccon
:
Understanding and Mitigating the Threat of Vec2Text to Dense Retrieval Systems. 259-268 - Jack Longwell
, Mahdiyar Ali Akbar Alavi
, Fattane Zarrinkalam
, Faezeh Ensan
:
Triple Augmented Generative Language Models for SPARQL Query Generation from Natural Language Questions. 269-273 - Timo Breuer
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Data Fusion of Synthetic Query Variants With Generative Large Language Models. 274-279 - Hadiseh Moradisani
, Fattane Zarrinkalam
, Julien Serbanescu
, Zeinab Noorian
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UnAnswGen: A Systematic Approach for Generating Unanswerable Questions in Machine Reading Comprehension. 280-286
Tutorials
- Leif Azzopardi
, Jiqun Liu
:
Evaluating Cognitive Biases in Conversational and Generative IIR: A Tutorial. 287-290 - Negar Arabzadeh
, Chuan Meng
, Mohammad Aliannejadi
, Ebrahim Bagheri
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Query Performance Prediction: Techniques and Applications in Modern Information Retrieval. 291-294 - Mahdis Saeedi
, Christine Wong
, Hossein Fani
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Paradigm Shifts in Team Recommendation: From Historical Subgraph Optimization to Emerging Graph Neural Network. 295-298 - Fernando Diaz
, Andrew Drozdov
, To Eun Kim
, Alireza Salemi
, Hamed Zamani
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Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities. 299-302 - Andrew Yates
, Carlos Lassance
, Sean MacAvaney
, Thong Nguyen
, Yibin Lei
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Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval. 303-306
Workshops
- Zihan Wang
, Xuri Ge
, Joemon M. Jose
, Haitao Yu
, Weizhi Ma
, Zhaochun Ren
, Xin Xin
:
R3AG: First Workshop on Refined and Reliable Retrieval Augmented Generation. 307-310 - Makoto P. Kato
, Noriko Kando
, Charles L. A. Clarke
, Yiqun Liu
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The First Workshop on Evaluation Methodologies, Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (EMTCIR 2024). 311-314 - Praveen Acharya
, Gareth J. F. Jones
, Xiao Fu
, Aldo Lipani
, Fabio Crestani
, Noriko Kando
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The 1st Workshop on User Modelling in Conversational Information Retrieval (UM-CIR). 315-317

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