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How do you tell whether a fact-checking model got better at numbers or just got luckier with its search results? QuanTemp is a benchmark of 15,514 real numerical claims from 45 fact-checkers, plus a 423,320-snippet evidence corpus, and the best model on it reaches 58.32 macro-F1. But retrieval quality is scored once, as a usefulness rating on 20 claims, so the ranking cannot separate reasoning from retrieval.

https://benjaminhan.net/posts/20260816-quantemp-numerical-claims/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#FactVerification #Retrieval #Evaluation #NLP #SIGIR #AI

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

For future hypothetical Information Retrieval conferences in the USA, please have a look at how IEEE VIS is organizing satellite evens in Paris and Tianjin: https://ieeevis.org/year/2026/satellites/ (watch the video!) #SIGIR2027 #SIGIR

I don't really understand why #SIGIR selected the US for 2027. Seems like a really bad idea given the current situation in the US. They even had an alternative Toronto bid!!

We are at #SIGIR2025 in Padua, Italy this week. Talk to our editors at the coffee breaks. #SIGIR

The #SIGIR2025 conference is asking volunteers to present papers of random researchers that cannot present. If you cannot attend, your paper will be presented by someone else. There will be no on-line presentations.

I am disappointed by the total absence of possibilities to present on-line. We got a lot of experience organizing on-line events during Covid-19 times: Why is #SIGIR trowing that all away?

Incredibly excited to join #SIGIR 2025 in July. Hope to see you all in Italy and talk about information retrieval.

Dear #SIGIR friends, I'm running for the office of ACM SIGIR Secretary. If elected, I'll push to ensure that SIGIR remains a top technical forum for impactful cutting-edge research and advocate for increased accessibility, inclusivity, & equity. I appreciate your support!
https://www.acm.org/elections/sigs/vote

Excellent ad by the University of Padua, which will host #SIGIR in Padua from 13 to 18 July 2025. #SIGIR2024 #SIGIR2025

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FZtjncEIIjk

More great news from #SIGIR2024 :

Not "just" one but TWO of our Radboud Assistant Professors in information retrieval have received a very special recognition by #SIGIR in the form of an Early Career Award:

Harrie Oosterhuis and Faegheh Hasibi

So proud of our IR research group!!

Many congratulations with this special honour! We knew you are special, but now it is official :-)

There will be a Information Retrieval for Climate Impact workshop at #SIGIR

https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/

@JustCodeCulture @ACM @histodons @communicationscholars @sociology @anthropology
I nominate the #SIGIR museum: https://sigir.org/resources/museum/

The 1st CfP for our Psychology-informed Information Access Systems (PsyIAS) workshop, to be held at WSDM 2024
@WSDMSocial

https://sites.google.com/view/psyias/

co-organized by B. Massoni-Sguerra and R. Hennequin from Deezer Research.

#recsys #sigir #wsdm2024

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BraveWords
SIGIR Releases New Single / Video "Rainmaker"
Finnish upstart melodic death metal band Sigir has shared a new single, "Rainmaker"...

https://bravewords.com/news/sigir-releases-new-single-video-rainmaker

#Sigir #HeavyMetal #Rainmaker #NewSingle #NewVideo #HarvestingCountlessSouls #ImperialCulture #PowerfulMessage #PositiveChange #Bravewords #MentalHealthAwareness

👆️ if we're honest, #SIGIR in Rwanda would have no chance, and that's completely on SIGIR...

Paul Thomas and I will be serving as the first sustainability chairs of #sigir (2023-2025). We want to make IR conferences more earth-friendly. We are now looking into best practices from SIGPLAN, UIST, CHI, etc. but if you have any good ideas please let us know.
#sustainability

#introduction and news

I guess it's time for an introduction. I'm a research scientist at Google based in Montréal where I work on the design and evaluation of machine learning systems, especially search and recommender systems and their broader societal effects.

#recsys #sigir #machinelearning #hcai #facct @facct @recsys

and...

@bcs_irsg nice! Please, tell #SIGIR to follow suit :-)

A thoughtful post by Fernando Diaz about SIGIR as flagship conference of the field or IR: https://diazf.medium.com/revisiting-the-alleged-problems-with-sigir-1beaf414f7b6

#SIGIR2021 #SIGIR

What happened to the new #SIGIR logo and style?

https://idf.social/@djoerd/102496209060056691

I am confused: At the #SIGIR business meeting, the executive committee claimed that "all ACM SIGIR publications are permanent open access on the DL", but that is clearly not the case, see my attempt to download Bruce Croft's SIGIR 2019 keynote paper.

#SIGIR 2020 Test of time award goes to Hao Ma et al. SIGIR 2009 "Learning to recommend with social trust ensemble"

#SIGIR 2020 Test of time award Honorable Mention 2: Guihong Cao et al. SIGIR 2008

#SIGIR 2020 Test of time award Honorable Mention 1: Georges Dupret and Benjamin Piwowarski, SIGIR 2008

#SIGIR 2020 Short paper honorable mention: Jianxin Chang: "Bundle recommendation with graph convolutional networks"

#SIGIR 2020 will be completely online!

https://twitter.com/vanessa_murdock/status/1253359465681661952