Detailed Conference Program

Capital Hilton Floor Plan(second floor)



Sunday, July 14th, 2024
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM : SIGIR Registration - Capital Terrace/Foyers
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 PM : Quiet Room / Prayer Room - Executive Lounge
Federal A Federal B South American A South American B Statler A & B Massachusetts Ohio
9:00-10:30 AM Doctoral Consortium Large Language Model Powered Agents for Information Retrieval Large Language Models for Tabular Data: Progresses and Future Directions Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval Large Language Models for Recommendation: Past, Present, and Future Search under Uncertainty: Cognitive Biases and Heuristics High Recall Retrieval Via Technology-Assisted Review
10:30-11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Doctoral Consortium Large Language Model Powered Agents for Information Retrieval Large Language Models for Tabular Data: Progresses and Future Directions Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval Large Language Models for Recommendation: Past, Present, and Future Search under Uncertainty: Cognitive Biases and Heuristics High Recall Retrieval Via Technology-Assisted Review
12:30-1:30 PM Doctoral Consortium Lunch provided
1:30-3:00 PM Doctoral Consortium Empowering Large Language Models: Tool Learning for Real-World Interaction Robust Information Retrieval Preventing and Detecting Misinformation Generated by Large Language Models Using and Evaluating Quantum Computing for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems Search under Uncertainty: Cognitive Biases and Heuristics High Recall Retrieval Via Technology-Assisted Review
3:00-3:30 PM Coffee break
3:30-5:00 PM Doctoral Consortium Empowering Large Language Models: Tool Learning for Real-World Interaction Robust Information Retrieval Preventing and Detecting Misinformation Generated by Large Language Models Using and Evaluating Quantum Computing for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems Search under Uncertainty: Cognitive Biases and Heuristics High Recall Retrieval Via Technology-Assisted Review
5:30-7:30 PM Welcome Reception at Congressional Ballroom & Senate(Capital Hilton Hotel)
Monday, July 15th, 2024
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM : SIGIR Registration - Capital Terrace/Foyers
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 PM : Quiet Room / Prayer Room - Executive Lounge
Presidential Ballroom Congres-sional Ballroom Senate Federal A Federal B South American A South American B Statler A & B Pan American New York
8:25-9:00 AM Opening
9:00-10:00 AM Keynote #1 - Salton Award Winner
10:00-10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM SIGIR M1.1 LLM + search SIGIR M1.2 Reasoning & Knowledge Graphs SIGIR M1.3 Efficency for Search SIGIR M1.4 Multimedia 1 SIGIR M1.5 Evaluation SIGIR M1.6 RecSys and LLMs SIRIP (Keynote, LLMs) SIGIR M1.7 Fairness in RecSys
12:30-1:30 PM DEI Lunch
1:30-2:30 PM Keynote #2: Representation Learning and Information Retrieval
Yiming Yang
2:30-2:45 PM Coffee Break
2:45-3:45 PM SIGIR M2.1 GenIR and The Future of Search with LLMs SIGIR M2.2 Graphs and LLMs SIGIR M2.3 Domain Specific RecSys SIGIR M2.4 Multilingual Retrieval SIGIR M2.5 NLP SIGIR M2.6 Multimodal RecSys SIRIP (LLMs) SIRIP (Domain-specific)
3:45-4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 PM SIGIR M3.1 Retrieval Augmented Generation SIGIR M3.2 Conversat-ional IR and Recommend-ation SIGIR M3.3 Multimodal SIGIR M3.4 Graphs and RecSys 1 SIGIR M3.5 Recommend-ation Systems SIRIP (Recsys and social) SIRIP (E-comm) SIGIR M3.6 Users and Simulations
5:30-6:30 PM Women in IR
7:00-9:00 PM Student Trivia Night at Clubhouse Georgetown
Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM : SIGIR Registration - Capital Terrace/Foyers
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 PM : Quiet Room / Prayer Room - Executive Lounge
Time Presidential Ballroom Congressional Ballroom Senate Federal A Federal B South American B Statler A & B
9:00-10:00 AM Keynote #3: Towards Steerable AI Systems
Thorsten Joachims
10:00-10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM LLM Day SIGIR T1.1 Explainability in Search and Recommendation SIGIR T1.2 Domain specific SIGIR T1.3 CTR, Ads & Click Models SIGIR T1.4 Graphs and RecSys 2
12:30-1:30 PM Student Lunch
1:30-3:00 PM LLM Day SIGIR T2.1 Dense Retrieval 1 SIGIR T2.2 Diffusion in RecSys SIGIR T2.5 Prompts, Instructions and LLMs in Recommender Systems SIGIR T2.3 Neural IR SIGIR T2.4 POI Recommendation
3:00-3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 PM LLM Day SIGIR T3.1 Fairness SIGIR T3.2 Sequential Recommendation SIGIR T3.3 Networks & Graphs SIGIR T3.4 Privacy, Security and Federated Learning
6:30-9:30 PM Banquet at Old Ebbitt Grill
(Address: 655 15th St. NW Washington, DC 20005, use doors to the right of the main entrance of Old Ebbitt)
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM : SIGIR Registration - Capital Terrace/Foyers
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 PM : Quiet Room / Prayer Room - Executive Lounge
Time Presidential Ballroom Congres-sional Ballroom Senate Federal A & Federal B South American A South American B Statler A & B Pan American Massachu-setts New York Ohio California
9:00-10:00 AM Keynote #4: The Trajectory of Information Retrieval
Michael Littman
10:00-10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Government Day SIGIR W1.1 Dense Retrieval 2 SIGIR W1.2 Long-term & Session Recommendation SIGIR W1.3 Evaluation with and for LLMs SIRIP (Keynote, Search Assist) SIRIP (Domain-specific) SIGIR W1.4 Question Answering and Summarisation SIGIR W1.5 Cross-Domain Recommendation SIGIR W1.6 Multimedia 2 SIGIR W1.7 Legal
12:30-2:00 PM SIGIR Business Lunch
2:00-5:30 PM Government Day Posters + Demo Session (Demos in Foyers)
Coffee at 2:00pm
Cookies at 3:30pm		 SIRIP (Panel)
5:30-6:00 PM SIGIR Closing
Thursday, July 18th, 2024
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM : SIGIR Registration - Capital Terrace/Foyers
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 PM : Quiet Room / Prayer Room - Executive Lounge
Time Workshops Breaks
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG) - Presidential Ballroom
  • Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR (LLM4Eval) - Federal A
  • The Second Workshop on Large Language Models for Individuals, Groups, and Society (LLM-IGS-II) - Federal B
  • The 1st Workshop on Multimodal Representation and Retrieval (MRR 2024) - South American A
  • The Second Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR@ SIGIR24) - South American B
  • International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS 2024) - Statler A
  • Third Workshop on Personalization and Recommendations in Search (PaRiS) - Statler B
  • Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR) - Pan American
  • The Fifth Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSem Tech2024) - Massachusetts
  • SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA@ SIGIR 2024) - New York
  • The First Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval (AgentIR) - Ohio
  • The 2024 SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce (eCom24) - California
  • First SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact (MANILA24) - Continental
10:30-11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:45 AM - Museum Group Tour: African American Museum
12:30 PM - Museum Group Tour: Library of Congress
12:30-1:30 PM Break
1:30-5:00 PM
  • Posters - Congressional Ballroom & Senate
  • Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG) - Presidential Ballroom
  • Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR (LLM4Eval) - Federal A
  • The Second Workshop on Large Language Models for Individuals, Groups, and Society (LLM-IGS-II) - Federal B
  • The Second Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR@ SIGIR24) - South American B
  • International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS 2024) - Statler A
  • Third Workshop on Personalization and Recommendations in Search (PaRiS) - Statler B
  • Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR) - Pan American
  • The Fifth Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSem Tech2024) - Massachusetts
  • SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA@ SIGIR 2024) - New York
  • The First Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval (AgentIR) - Ohio
  • The 2024 SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce (eCom24) - California
03:00-3:30 PM
Coffee Break

Paper types and their presentation and Q&A time:

  • [fp] full paper (15 + 3 minutes)
  • [pp] perspectives paper (15 + 3 minutes)
  • [rr] reproducibility paper (15 + 3 minutes)
  • [**rr] resource paper (5 minutes, no Q&A)
  • [tois] TOIS paper (15 + 3 minutes)

denotes best paper nominees


Note: The papers starting with will be presented online, without a proxy present.

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