When?What?
July 1720 – 22Social Dinner
Caffè Pedrocchi, Padua
(badge & ticket are required)
July 189-9:15

9:15-10
Opening

Keynote 1 + QA
What happens when your users are not longer humans?
Nils Reimers, VP AI & Search, Cohere

See Keynotes page for full abstract and speaker bio.
July 1810-10:30

10:30-11:15
Coffee Break

Keynote 2 + QA
Who writes the web? Who reads it? Who judges it? And who reports back to us? About authenticity in information retrieval.
Martin Potthast, hessian.AI Chair for Deep Semantic Learning at the University of Kassel

See Keynotes page for full abstract and speaker bio.
July 1811:15-12:358 Oral Presentations (each 7+3 minutes)
Ameliorating the Herding Effect Driven by Search Engines using Diversity-Based Ranking
Tommy Mordo & Itamar Reinman & Moshe Tenneholtz & Oren Kurland

Impersonating the Crowd: Evaluating LLMs’ Ability to Replicate Human Judgment in Misinformation Assessment
David La Barbera & Riccardo Lunardi & Mengdie Zhuang & Kevin Roitero

Correctness is not Faithfulness in Retrieval Augmented Generation Attributions
Jonas Wallat & Maria Heuss & Maarten de Rijke & Avishek Anand

Towards Fair RAG: On the Impact of Fair Ranking in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
To Eun Kim & Fernando Diaz

Rethinking Click Models in Light of Carousel Interfaces: Theory-Based Categorization and Design of Click Models
Jingwei Kang & Maarten de Rijke & Santiago de Leon-Martinez & Harrie Oosterhuis

Towards Fair Rankings: Leveraging LLMs for Gender Bias Detection and Measurement
Maryam Mousavian & Zahra Abbasiantaeb & Mohammad Aliannejadi & Fabio Crestani

Axioms for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Jan Heinrich Merker & Maik Frbe & Benno Stein & Martin Potthast & Matthias Hagen

Preaching to the CholR: Lessons IR Should Share with Al
Gianluca Demartini & Claudia Hauff & Matthew Lease & Stefano Mizzaro & Kevin Roitero & Mark Sanderson & Falk Scholer & Chirag Shah & Damiano Spina & Paul Thomas & Arjen P. de Vries & Guido Zuccon
July 1812:35-14

14-15

15-15:30

15:30-15:55
Lunch Break + Poster Session

Poster Session (Cont’d)

Coffee Break

2 TOIS Presentations (each 10 + 2 minutes)
Towards Effective and Efficient Sparse Neural Information Retrieval
Thibault Formal, Carlos Lassance, Benjamin Piwowarski, Stephane Clinchant

Online and Offline Evaluation in Search Clarification
Leila Tavakoli, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson
July 1815:55-17:20Panel on: LLMs + IR, what could possibly go wrong?

July 1817:20-17:30Closing