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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Happy #OAWeek! “The Cost of Knowledge” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 19-25). We create and share knowledge in order to advance human understanding and the common good. We recognize that accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right. Yet, the costs to […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The #CCF Recommended International Academic Conference and Journal List is an official classification system maintained by the China Computer Federation: en.nevergpdzy.com/docs/Academic/chi… It categorizes conferences and journals into A, B, and C […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Prepare and submit your #DESIRES abstract following the IRRJ submission guidelines. Abstracts should be between 2 and 5 pages long (including the references). No cover letter is required for abstract submission. Authors of accepted abstracts are invited, after presenting at the conference, to […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

#IRRJ will support the call for abstracts for the 5th International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems #DESIRES, #DESIRES2027 irrj.org/announcement/view/358

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E.g., big shout out to @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy and the team for realizing @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy as an alternative to the for-profit academic publishing ecosystem in IR. We need more such actions and experimentations on building counter-structures in the field. Website: irrj.org 57/

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

We are wishing all #SIGIR participants and presenters a great, fruiteful time in Naarm! 🪃🦘 🐨 #SIGIR2026

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

In the editorial of our latest issue, Stephen Robertson reviews "The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a TechBillionaire" based on his personal encounter with Lynch: "Something to do with probability" by Stephen Robertson. #ProbabilityTheory, #BayesianStatistics […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

More to come, we planned four(!) issues in 2026

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

#IRRJ Volume 2, Number 1 of June 2026 is out! Check out the online issue at: irrj.org/issue/view/vol2no1 (as always, fully open access! you -- the reader -- does not pay, the authors did not pay, but all is covered by volunteers and donations from friend organisations)

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Published at #IRRJ: "CASTlog: A Comprehensive Log of Children’s Interactions with the Child Adaptive Search Tool" by Christine Pinney, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Sole Pera, Jerry Alan Fails. #Children, #InformationRetrieval, #resource, #dataset, #QueryLog, #ChildSystemInteraction […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Published at #IRRJ: "Beyond Hostility: Detecting Subtle and Overt Forms of Online Conflict with Multi-Objective Learning" by Oliver Warke, Joemon M. Jose, and Jan Breitsohl. #Hostility, #OnlineConflictDetection, #SocialMedia, #BehaviourAnalysis, #KnowledgeDistillation, #Transformers, #NLP […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

@arjen Please, don't forget us, your neighbourhoods diamond open access journal on Information Retrieval 🙏

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Published at #IRRJ: "Much Ado about Accessibility: An Exploration of Online Content Accessibility from an Autism-Informed Perspective" by Hrishita Chakrabarti and Maria Soledad Pera. #TextAnalysis, #Autism, #WebAccessibility, #SearchEngines, #LLMs doi.org/10.54195/irrj.25297

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

There will be an IRRJ special issue on ECIR: Participants of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (#ECIR2026), which took place from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, the Netherlands, are invited to submit an extended version of their ECIR 2026 paper. The special issue will be […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

Finally, also presented at #ECIR2026: "Annotative Indexing" by Charles Clarke of the University of Waterloo: doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19910

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

#ECIR2026 presentation by Savvina Daniil: "On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems: The effect of data characteristics and algorithm configuration", the first paper of #IRRJ Volume 1 Number 1: orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-2869 (this paper was presented at #RecSys too!)

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

#ECIR2026 again: Sérgio Nunes presented the #IRRJ paper "Evaluating Dense Model-based Approaches for Multimodal Medical Case Retrieval" orcid.org/0009-0005-5000-6333

Nunes on stage receiving a paper copy of the issue with his paper

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

More #ECIR2026! Emma Gerritse presented the #IRRJ paper "Graph Embeddings to Empower Entity Retrieval" orcid.org/0009-0008-3389-1643

Emma Gerritsen on stage, shrugging expressively

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Bhaskar Mitra presented the #IRRJ paper: "Emancipatory Information Retrieval" at #ECIR2026 doi.org/10.54195/irrj.24531 (Photo: Mitra receives a paper copy of the issue that includes their paper)

Mitra receives a paper copy of the issue that includes their paper

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Today, at the European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026, authors of #IRRJ papers presented their work in a dedicated #IRRJ session. A big thank you to our editors for running the journal!

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

The presentations for the #IRRJ session at the at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 are now in the conference schedule at: ecir2026.eu/programme/program-sched…

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

RE: sigmoid.social/@IRRJ/11604117291997… For everyone that celebrates April Fools Day: We don't. This is not a joke.

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

The special issue will be edited by IRRJ associate editor Debarshi Kumar Sanyal from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India, and guest editor Debasis Ganguly from the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Submit at: irrj.org/about/submissions Deadline: 30 April 2026.

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

There will be an #IRRJ special issue on #FIRE: Participants of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025), which took place from 17 to 20 December 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, are invited to submit an extended version of their FIRE 2025 paper.

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Look at the beautiful cover of this #IRRJ issue. This is what perfection looks like:

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

In the second issue of #IRRJ, Paul Kantor writes the editorial, arguing for a more critical adoption of generative AI in information retrieval. He puts his concerns under three distinct headings: consistency, confidence, and completeness. #GenAI, #GenerativeAI, #InformationRetrieval […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

BREAKING: Today, at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, we announced a partnership between #FIRE2025 and #IRRJ. There will be an IRRJ special issue on FIRE! 🔥 More information to be shared here soon.

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

#CfP Call for Papers for Volume 2, 2026: Please submit your papers for the third issue of IRRJ, Volume 2 Number 1, which is planned June 2026. irrj.org/announcement/view/305

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

Read the full paper "On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems: The effect of data characteristics and algorithm configuration" by Daniil, Slokom, Cuper, Liem, Van Ossenbruggen, and Hollink at: doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19607

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