Time：10:30-12:00, 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.
