Notes from SIGIR 2022
KeyNotes:
From Search Queries to Conversations in the Design of Information Retrieval and Access Systems
I3A: An Intelligent Interactive Information Agent Model for Information Retrieva
Few-shot Information Extraction is here: Pre-train, Prompt and Entail
Intelligent Conversational Agents for Ambient Computing
Search at Bloomberg: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned
Amazon: The Role Of GNNs In Improving Search Quality And Trust
Panel: Applications and Future of Dense Retrieval in Industry
Notable Papers:
Structure and Semantics Preserving Document Representations
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BERT Rankers are Brittle: a Study using Adversarial Document Perturbations
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An Industrial Framework for Cold-Start Recommendation in Zero-Shot Scenarios
Note: RecSys at AntGroup scale…
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A Non-Factoid Question-Answering Taxonomy
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A General Framework for Pairwise Unbiased Learning to Rank
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Green Information Retrieval Research
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Curriculum Learning for Dense Retrieval Distillation
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Towards Validating Long-Term User Feedbacks in Interactive Recommendation Systems
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Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning
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Learning to Rank Instant Search Results with Multiple Indices: A Case Study in Search Aggregation for Entertainment
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Deployable and Continuable Meta-learning-Based Recommender System with Fast User-Incremental Updates
Note: academic. not actual deployment.
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Tutorials
Sequential/Session-Based Recommendations: Challenges, Approaches, Applications and Opportunities
Self-Supervised Learning for Recommender Systems
Recent Advances in Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation
Beyond Opinion Mining: Summarizing Opinions of Customer Reviews
Deep Knowledge Graph Representation Learning for Completion, Alignment and Question Answering
Improving Efficiency and Robustness of Transformer-based Information Retrieval Systems
Note: Extremely basic info on Neural IR.
Recording: Session 1,
Session 2
Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Behaviour
Recording: Session 1,
Session 2,
Session 3,
Session 4
Towards Reproducible Machine Learning Research in Information Retrieval
Recording: Session 1,
Session 2
Gender Fairness in Information Retrieval Systems
Recording: Session 1,
Session 2
Retrieval and Recommendation Systems at the Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Regulation
Recording: Session 1,
Session 2
Workshops
ReNeuIR - Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
Recordings: Session 1 - Introduction,
Session 2,
Session 3 - Paper Talks,
Session 4 - Round Table
DRL4IR - Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval
Recordings: Session 1,
Session 2
SCAI - Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence
Recordings: Session 1,
Session 2,
Session 3,
Session 4
QUARE - Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems
Recordings: Session 1
IWILDS - International Workshop on Investigating Learning During Web Search
Recordings: Session 1,
Session 2
ECOM - eCommerce
Recordings: Session 1,
Session 2,
Session 3,
Session 4
INRA - News Recommendation and Analytics
Recordings: Session 1