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A shared task on agentic AI in university administration, part of the CIKM 2026 AnalytiCup: build agents that solve standardized administrative tasks under controlled tool access and expert-judged ref...

A shared task on agentic AI in university administration, part of the CIKM 2026 AnalytiCup: build agents that solve standardized administrative tasks under controlled tool access and expert-judged ref...

Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.

Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Online Event on Search-Oriented Conversational AI.

ALT: an aerial view of tokyo at night with lots of lights

Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.

Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.

The fundamental property of Cranfield-style evaluations, that system rankings are stable even when assessors disagree on individual relevance decisions, was validated on traditional test collections. ...

Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.

Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval

Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.

Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) search occurs when a user struggles to recall a specific identifier, such as a document title. While common, existing search systems often fail to effectively support TOT scena...

8 - 10 October 2025 Continuing the successful conference series from the past 6 years, the #ossym25 Open Search Symposium brings together the European and international Open Search community for the seventh time. The hybrid conference provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open web search and related topics in various formats including scientific talks, panels, workshops, demonstrations, student challenges and informal discussion spaces. Participants...

Discuss ideas and approaches to open up the web search ecosystem!

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 ...