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Overview of the Workshop on Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI
2024.09.12



Time10:30-12:00, September 13, 2024

Venue: Conference Hall 1826, Lide Building

 

Topic:

Overview of the Workshop on Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI

 

Abstract:

After SIGIR 2024, a workshop is organized by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to discuss about the future of IR in the age of generative AI. 40 experts in IR and generative AI participated in the workshop. Discussions have been made on the following aspects: (1) evaluation challenges and needs in IR-GenAI , (2) learning from implicit and explicit human feedback for solving complex problems that may require reasoning, (3) understanding and modeling users for the evolving generative AI-powered information access systems, (4) challenges and potential solutions to address or mitigate socio-technical issues raised by the new technologies in IR-GenAI, (5) methods for developing personalized systems, (6) efficiency considerations when scaling compute, data, and human efforts in developing IR-GenAI methods, (7) the role of information retrieval in enhancing AI agents, and (8) developing foundation models specifically for information access and discovery. In this talk, I will summarize the main output of these discussions.

 

Introduction to the speaker

Jian-Yun Nie is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, and Canada research chair on natural language processing and applications. His research focuses on various problems of information retrieval and natural language processing, including information retrieval models, web search, cross-language information retrieval, recommendation systems, query suggestion, question answering and dialogue. Jian-Yun Nie has published over 250 papers in the main journals and conferences in IR and NLP. He is an associate editor of 4 journals. He has served as general chair, PC chair and local organization chair for SIGIR conferences, as well as for several other conferences and workshops. He regularly serves as senior PC members of major conferences such as SIGIR, CIKM, ACL, EMNLP, COLING, WWW. He received several best paper awards, including a Best paper award and a Test-of-Time honorable mention award from SIGIR. He is inducted to the ACM SIGIR Academy in 2022 for his contributions to the IR field.

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