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Has the simple search become less useful in a world of low-information, SEO-optimised sites, and often faulty AI summaries? Are there better ways to navigate the web?

To make sure search engines serve us well, it’s helpful to imagine these tools having different roles – whether it’s a “librarian” or a “teacher”.

A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

Consider a scenario in which a user searches for information, only to encounter texts flooded with misleading or non-relevant content. This scenario exemplifies a simple yet potent vulnerability in ne...

ACM has named 55 of its members ACM for transformative contributions to computing science and technology. All the 2024 inductees are longstanding ACM Members whose accomplishments were selected by the...

The use of large language models (LLMs) for relevance assessment in information retrieval has gained significant attention, with recent studies suggesting that LLM-based judgments provide comparable e...

The SIGIR 2025 keynotes are held by esteemed speakers: Robertson S., Gurevych I. and Frieder O., who will cover topics that range from AI in medical search and ecommendation to BM25 and probabilistic ...

28 April - 2 May 2025

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How we improved Canva’s private design search while respecting the privacy of our community.

With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, researchers have been working on how to utilize the LLMs for better recommendations. However, although LLMs exhibit black-box and probabi...

28 April - 2 May 2025