The information retrieval experiment platform

M Fröbe, JH Reimer, S MacAvaney, N Deckers… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We integrate irdatasets, ir_measures, and PyTerrier with TIRA in the Information Retrieval
Experiment Platform (TIREx) to promote more standardized, reproducible, scalable, and …

Users meet clarifying questions: Toward a better understanding of user interactions for search clarification

J Zou, M Aliannejadi, E Kanoulas, MS Pera… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The use of clarifying questions (CQs) is a fairly new and useful technique to aid systems in
recognizing the intent, context, and preferences behind user queries. Yet, understanding the …

Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework

M Fröbe, H Scells, T Elstner, C Akiki… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The first International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS) was held on Thursday,
March 28th, at ECIR 2024 in Glasgow, UK. The full-day workshop had two calls for …

Pybool_ir: A toolkit for domain-specific search experiments

H Scells, M Potthast - Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Undertaking research in domain-specific scenarios such as systematic review literature
search, legal search, and patent search can often have a high barrier of entry due to …

Two decades of the ACL Anthology: Development, impact, and open challenges

M Bollmann, N Schneider, A Köhn… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
The ACL Anthology is a prime resource for research papers within computational linguistics
and natural language processing, while continuing to be an open-source and community …

Browsing and Searching Metadata of TREC

T Breuer, EM Voorhees, I Soboroff - … of the 47th International ACM SIGIR …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Information Retrieval (IR) research is deeply rooted in experimentation and evaluation, and
the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) has been playing a central role in making that …

[PDF][PDF] Reproducible Information Retrieval Research: From Principled System-Oriented Evaluations Towards User-Oriented Experimentation

T Breuer - 2023 - duepublico2.uni-due.de
The reproducibility of earlier findings is fundamental to the empirical sciences. Even though
this circumstance is widely acknowledged, several systematic large-scale reproducibility …

Dynamic Exploratory Search for the Information Retrieval Anthology

T Gollub, J Brockmeyer, B Stein, M Potthast - European Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents dynamic exploratory search technology for the analysis of scientific
corpora. The unique dynamic features of the system allow users to analyze quantitative …

The information retrieval anthology 2021: inaugural status report and challenges ahead

M Potthast, B Stein, M Hagen - ACM SIGIR Forum, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The Information Retrieval Anthology, IR Anthology for short, is an endeavor to create a
comprehensive collection of metadata and full texts of IR-related publications. We report on …

[PDF][PDF] Teaching Information Retrieval with a Shared Task Across Universities: First Steps and Findings

M Fröbe, C Akiki, T Breuer, T Eckart, A Friedrich… - 2024 - informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Many universities offer information retrieval (IR) courses with different specializations as part
of their computer science or information science programs. Student involvement and …