Report on the 1st Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024
This paper is a report of the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA) workshop at SIGIR 2024. The workshop had two keynotes, a panel discussion, nine lightning talks, and two breakout sessions. Key takeaways were user simulation's importance in academia and industry, the possible bridging of online and offline evaluation, and the issues of organizing a companion shared task around user simulations for information access. We report on how we organized the workshop, provide a brief overview of what happened at the workshop, and summarize the main topics and findings of the workshop and future work. Date : 18 July 2024. Website : https://sim4ia.org/sigir2024.
Authors
- Jüri Keller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9392-8646)
- Gareth J. F. Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2923-8365)
- Xi Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5936-9919)
- Marcel Gohsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1020-6745)
- ChengXiang Zhai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6434-3702)
- Martin Mladenov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5565-5126)
- Johanne R. Trippas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7801-0239)
- Norbert Fuhr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0441-6949)
- Krisztian Balog (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2762-721X)
- Nolwenn Bernard
- Gabriella Pasi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6080-8170)
- Timo Breuer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-2449)
- Christin Katharina Kreutz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5075-7699)
- Saber Zerhoudi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2259-0462)
- Kaixin Ji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4679-4526)
- Philipp Schaer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8817-4632)
- Jiqun Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-2182)
- Ingo Frommholz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-5132)
Institutions
- TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences (DE)
- University of Wolverhampton (GB)
- Google (United States) (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- University of Passau (DE)
- Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (DE)
- Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (DE)
- University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
- University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)
- RMIT University (AU)
- University of Oklahoma (US)
- University of Stavanger (NO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACM SIGIR Forum
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3722449.3722460
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Recommender Systems and Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.45