SIGIR 2025 Overall Program

Tutorials Day

 

From 8:00 - Registrations
9:00 - 10:30

Tutorials

  • R2LLMs: Retrieval and Ranking with LLMs
  • Long Context vs. RAG: Strategies for Processing Long Documents in LLMs
  • Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the LLM Era
  • Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation
  • Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning Synthesis and Opportunities
  • Efficient In-Memory Inverted Indexes: Theory and Practice
  • Information Retrieval in Finance: Industry and Academic Perspectives on Innovation
  • Unveiling Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models for Trustworthy Information Access

Doctoral Consoritum

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Tutorials

  • R2LLMs: Retrieval and Ranking with LLMs
  • Long Context vs. RAG: Strategies for Processing Long Documents in LLMs
  • Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the LLM Era
  • Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation
  • Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning Synthesis and Opportunities
  • Efficient In-Memory Inverted Indexes: Theory and Practice
  • Information Retrieval in Finance: Industry and Academic Perspectives on Innovation
  • Unveiling Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models for Trustworthy Information Access

Doctoral Consoritum

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Tutorials

  • Navigating Large Language Models for Recommendation: From Architecture to Learning Paradigms and Deployment
  • Dynamic and Parametric Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
  • Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval
  • Psychological Aspects in Retrieval and Recommendation
  • Information Retrieval in Finance: Industry and Academic Perspectives on Innovation
  • Fairness in Information Retrieval from an Economic Perspective

Doctoral Consoritum

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Tutorials

  • Navigating Large Language Models for Recommendation: From Architecture to Learning Paradigms and Deployment
  • Dynamic and Parametric Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
  • Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval
  • Psychological Aspects in Retrieval and Recommendation
  • Information Retrieval in Finance: Industry and Academic Perspectives on Innovation
  • Fairness in Information Retrieval from an Economic Perspective

Doctoral Consoritum

From 20:00

Welcome Reception

Main Conference

Day 1

From 7:30 - Registrations
8:30 - 9:00

Conference Opening

9:00 - 10:00

Keynote 1: Stephen Robertson: BM25 and All That - A Look Back

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30 (Parallel Sessions)

Full Paper & TOIS

  • RecSys: Scalability, Embeddings and Training
  • RecSys: Graphs
  • Natural Language Processing 1
  • Domain-Specific Applications 1
  • Multi-modal Retrieval

Reproducibility

  • Domain-Specific, Multimodal, and Multilingual Retrieval

SIRIP

  • Opening and Keynote "Is Search Dead? The Rise or Demise of Search in the Era of LLMs" (10:30-11:30)
  • LLMs 1 (11:30-12:30)
  • E-commerce (11:30-12:30)
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Student luncheon

14:00 - 15:30

Resouce Posters, Short Papers Posters and demos session 1

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30 (Parallel Sessions)

Full Paper & TOIS

  • RecSys: Sequential 1
  • Knowledge and Knowledge Graphs
  • Humans and Interfaces
  • Domain-specific Applications 2
  • Video Retrieval

Reproducibility

  • Reproducibility Studies in IR and Recommender Systems

SIRIP

  • Domain specific 1 (15:30-16:30)
  • Personalisation (15:30-16:30)
  • Learning & Optimisation (16:30-17:30)
  • Recsys (16:30-17:30)
From 19:30

Student Event

Main Conference

Day 2

From 8:30 - Registrations
9:00 - 10:00

Keynote 2: Ophir Frieder: Digital Health

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30 (Parallel Sessions)

Full Paper & TOIS

  • Search and Ranking 1
  • RecSys: Sequential 2
  • RecSys: FATE
  • Machine Learning 1
  • RecSys: Domain-specific
  • Image Retrieval

Reproducibility

  • LLMs for IR

SIRIP

  • LLMs 2 (10:30-11:30)
  • Domain specific 2 (11:30-12:30)
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Business Meeting

14:00 - 15:30

Resouce Posters, Short Papers Posters and demos session 2

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30 (Parallel Sessions)

Full Paper & TOIS

  • Search and Ranking 2
  • Machine Learning 2
  • RecSys: Sequential 3
  • FATE 1
  • Natural Language Processing 2
  • Biomedical and Health
  • Evaluation

SIRIP

  • Multi-modal
From 18:30

Social Dinner

Main Conference

Day 3

From 8:30 - Registrations
9:00 - 10:00

Keynote 3: Iryna Gurevych: Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words: can scientists and machines truly cooperate?

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30 (Parallel Sessions)

Full Paper & TOIS

  • Reranking
  • RecSys: Ranking and Adaptivity
  • FATE 2
  • Conversational IR and Intelligent Agents
  • Efficiency
  • RecSys: Multimodal

Reproducibility

  • Dense Retrieval (10:30-11:30)

Perspectives 1 (11:30-12:30)

Low-resource Environments 1

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Woman in IR posters

14:00 - 15:30 (Parallel Session)

Full Paper & TOIS

  • RecSys: Collaborative Filtering
  • RecSys: LLMs
  • FATE 3
  • Natural Language Processing 3
  • Benchmarks and Datasets
  • Question Answering

Perspectives 2

Low-resource Environments 2

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Women in IR Panel

17:00 - 17:30

Closing Session

17:30 - 18:30

Women in IR posters and drinks

Workshops DAY

 

From 8:30 - Registrations
9:00 - 10:30

Workshops

  • The 1st NIP@IR Workshop on New Interaction Paradigms for Information Retrieval in the Era of Generative AI
  • LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR
  • GENNEXT: The Next Generation of IR and Recommender Systems with Language Agents, Generative Models, and Conversational AI
  • IR-RAG: Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems
  • SIGIR 2025 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM25)
  • Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval
  • ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2025: The Fourth Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
  • International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS)
  • 6th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2025)
  • Robust-IR @ SIGIR 2025: The First Workshop on Robust Information Retrieval
  • 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2) - Bridging User-centered AI with IR: Making Information Retrieval Accessible for Al
  • Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025)
  • FinIR: The 2nd Workshop on Financial Information Retrieval in the Era of Generative AI

Live RAG Challenge

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Workshops

  • The 1st NIP@IR Workshop on New Interaction Paradigms for Information Retrieval in the Era of Generative AI
  • LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR
  • GENNEXT: The Next Generation of IR and Recommender Systems with Language Agents, Generative Models, and Conversational AI
  • IR-RAG: Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems
  • SIGIR 2025 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM25)
  • Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval
  • ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2025: The Fourth Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
  • International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS)
  • 6th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2025)
  • Robust-IR @ SIGIR 2025: The First Workshop on Robust Information Retrieval
  • 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2) - Bridging User-centered AI with IR: Making Information Retrieval Accessible for Al
  • Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025)
  • FinIR: The 2nd Workshop on Financial Information Retrieval in the Era of Generative AI

Live RAG Challenge

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Workshops Posters

14:30 - 16:00

Workshops

  • LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR
  • AgentIR: 2nd Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval
  • IR-RAG: Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems
  • SIGIR 2025 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM25)
  • Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval
  • ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2025: The Fourth Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
  • International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS)
  • 6th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2025)
  • Robust-IR @ SIGIR 2025: The First Workshop on Robust Information Retrieval
  • 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2) - Bridging User-centered AI with IR: Making Information Retrieval Accessible for Al
  • Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025)
  • MANILA25: SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact

Live RAG Challenge

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00

Workshops

  • LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR
  • AgentIR: 2nd Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval
  • IR-RAG: Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems
  • SIGIR 2025 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM25)
  • Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval
  • ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2025: The Fourth Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
  • International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS)
  • 6th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2025)
  • Robust-IR @ SIGIR 2025: The First Workshop on Robust Information Retrieval
  • 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2) - Bridging User-centered AI with IR: Making Information Retrieval Accessible for Al
  • Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025)
  • MANILA25: SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact

Live RAG Challenge

From 20:00

ICTIR Social Dinner

ICTIR Conference

Co-located with ACM SIGIR 2025