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Proceedings of the 2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 18 July 2025

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Proceedings of the 2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 18 July 2025
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Towards Two-Stage Counterfactual Learning to Rank.
Shashank Gupta|Yiming Liao|Maarten de Rijke
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Normalized Set-Level Ideal DCG: A More Reliable Early-Stage Retrieval Metric.
Xiao Fu|Navdeep Singh Bedi|Fabio Crestani|Aldo Lipani
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Modelling and Predicting User Actions in Conversational Information Retrieval.
Xiao Fu|Aldo Lipani|Noriko Kando
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Demographically-Inspired Query Variants Using an LLM.
Marwah Alaofi|Nicola Ferro|Paul Thomas|Falk Scholer|Mark Sanderson
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Math Formula Graph Retrieval Using Contrastive Learning Over Visual and Semantic Embeddings.
Bryan Amador|Richard Zanibbi
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Response Generation through Social Reasoning in Large Language Models with Direct Diverse Preferences Optimization.
Maryam Amirizaniani|Elias Martin|Afra Mashhadi|Chirag Shah
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Retrieving Under Uncertainty: Towards a Chatbot Uncertainty Taxonomy (CUT) for Information Retrieval.
Alina Asisof
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Expert Finding Revisited: A Uniform Exploration of Methods.
Marjan Azimi|Alistair Moffat|Justin Zobel
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Impersonating the Crowd: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Replicate Human Judgment in Misinformation Assessment.
David La Barbera|Riccardo Lunardi|Mengdie Zhuang|Kevin Roitero
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QPP-RA: Aggregating Large Language Model Rankings.
Filippo Betello|Matteo Russo|Paul Dütting|Stefano Leonardi|Fabrizio Silvestri
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Probing Ranking LLMs: A Mechanistic Analysis for Information Retrieval.
Tanya Chowdhury|Atharva Nijasure|James Allan
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JointRank: Rank Large Set with Single Pass.
Evgeny Dedov
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Preaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR Should Share with AI.
Gianluca Demartini|Claudia Hauff|Matthew Lease|Stefano Mizzaro|Kevin Roitero|Mark Sanderson|Falk Scholer|Chirag Shah|Damiano Spina|Paul Thomas|Arjen P. de Vries|Guido Zuccon
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The Next Phase of Scientific Fact-Checking: Advanced Evidence Retrieval from Complex Structured Academic Papers.
Xingyu Deng|Xi Wang|Mark Stevenson
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Eclipse: Contrastive Dimension Importance Estimation with Pseudo-Irrelevance Feedback for Dense Retrieval.
Giulio D'Erasmo|Giovanni Trappolini|Fabrizio Silvestri|Nicola Tonellotto
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Principles and Guidelines for the Use of LLM Judges.
Laura Dietz|Oleg Zendel|Peter Bailey|Charles L. A. Clarke|Ellese Cotterill|Jeff Dalton|Faegheh Hasibi|Mark Sanderson|Nick Craswell
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Exploring the Utility of Embedding Similarity for Contract Tasks.
Jonathan Donnelly|Adam Roegiest
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Evaluating List Construction and Temporal Understanding capabilities of Large Language Models.
Alexandru Dumitru|Venktesh V|Adam Jatowt|Avishek Anand
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Criteria-Based LLM Relevance Judgments.
Naghmeh Farzi|Laura Dietz
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Learning Effective Representations for Retrieval Using Self-Distillation with Adaptive Relevance Margins.
Lukas Gienapp|Niklas Deckers|Martin Potthast|Harrisen Scells
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Unidentified and Confounded? Understanding Two-Tower Models for Unbiased Learning to Rank.
Philipp Hager|Onno Zoeter|Maarten de Rijke
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WaveRec: Is Wavelet Transform a Better Alternative to Fourier Transform for Sequential Recommendation?
Byungmoon Heo|Jaekwang Kim
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Impact of Shallow vs. Deep Relevance Judgments on BERT-based Reranking Models.
Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz|Danny Vo|Petra Galuscáková
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Insights into LLM-Based Conversational Search: A Study of Tetun-Speaking Users' Search Behavior.
Gabriel de Jesus|Sérgio Nunes
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Zero-Shot and Hybrid Strategies for Tetun Ad-Hoc Text Retrieval.
Gabriel de Jesus|Siddharth A. K. Singh|Sérgio Nunes|Andrew Yates
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Rethinking Click Models in Light of Carousel Interfaces: Theory-Based Categorization and Design of Click Models.
Jingwei Kang|Maarten de Rijke|Santiago de Leon-Martinez|Harrie Oosterhuis
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Towards Fair RAG: On the Impact of Fair Ranking in Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
To Eun Kim|Fernando Diaz
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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Study of Neural and Behavioural Variability Across Different Recommendation Categories.
Georgios Koutroumpas|Sebastian Idesis|Mireia Masias Bruns|Carlos Segura|Joemon M. Jose|Sergi Abadal|Ioannis Arapakis
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Oreo: A Plug-in Context Reconstructor to Enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Sha Li|Naren Ramakrishnan
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Axioms for Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Jan Heinrich Merker|Maik Fröbe|Benno Stein|Martin Potthast|Matthias Hagen
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Handling Ties in Rank-Biased Measurement: Two Complementary Views.
Alistair Moffat
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Ameliorating the Herding Effect Driven by Search Engines using Diversity-Based Ranking.
Tommy Mordo|Itamar Reinman|Moshe Tennenholtz|Oren Kurland
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Towards Fair Rankings: Leveraging LLMs for Gender Bias Detection and Measurement.
Maryam Mousavian|Zahra Abbasiantaeb|Mohammad Aliannejadi|Fabio Crestani
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A Robustness Assessment of Query Performance Prediction (QPP) Methods Based on Risk-Sensitive Analysis.
Ricardo Marçal de Andrade Nascimento|Daniel Xavier de Sousa|Guglielmo Faggioli|Paulo José Lage Alvarenga|Nicola Ferro|Marcos André Gonçalves
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SEP-GCN: Leveraging Similar Edge Pairs with Temporal and Spatial Contexts for Location-Based Recommender Systems.
Loc Tan Nguyen|Tin T. Tran
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W-RAG: Weakly Supervised Dense Retrieval in RAG for Open-domain Question Answering.
Jinming Nian|Zhiyuan Peng|Qifan Wang|Yi Fang
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Untangling Cognitive Processes in Academic Information Searching: Investigating Tool Gaps, Cognitive Load, and User Satisfaction.
Ginar Santika Niwanputri|Abiye Tob-Ogu|Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh
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Neural Prioritisation for Web Crawling.
Francesca Pezzuti|Sean MacAvaney|Nicola Tonellotto
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Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Text Completion Through Query Selection.
Idan Pogrebinsky|David Carmel|Oren Kurland
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Answering Multimodal Exclusion Queries with Lightweight Sparse Disentangled Representations.
Prachi|Sumit Bhatia|Srikanta Bedathur
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Characterizing Mosaicing Inference Risk: A Preliminary Study.
Nathaniel W. Rollings|Douglas W. Oard
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Learning to Rank for Multiple Retrieval-Augmented Models through Iterative Utility Maximization.
Alireza Salemi|Hamed Zamani
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Comparing Retrieval-Augmentation and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Privacy-Preserving Personalization of Large Language Models.
Alireza Salemi|Hamed Zamani
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Distillation and Refinement of Reasoning in Small Language Models for Document Re-ranking.
Chris Samarinas|Hamed Zamani
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A Substring Extraction-Based RAG Method for Minimising Hallucinations in Aircraft Maintenance Question Answering.
Quentin Signé|Mohand Boughanem|José G. Moreno|Thiziri Belkacem
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AIDME: A Scalable, Interpretable Framework for AI-Aided Scoping Reviews.
Michael Soprano|Sandip Modha|Kevin Roitero|Eddy Maddalena|Marco Viviani|Gabriella Pasi|Stefano Mizzaro
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Reliable Annotations with Less Effort: Evaluating LLM-Human Collaboration in Search Clarifications.
Leila Tavakoli|Hamed Zamani
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A Large-Scale Study of Relevance Assessments with Large Language Models Using UMBRELA.
Shivani Upadhyay|Ronak Pradeep|Nandan Thakur|Daniel Campos|Nick Craswell|Ian Soboroff|Jimmy Lin
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Correctness is not Faithfulness in Retrieval Augmented Generation Attributions.
Jonas Wallat|Maria Heuss|Maarten de Rijke|Avishek Anand
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Generalized Personalized PageRank with Graph Convolutional Networks in Recommender Systems.
Hiroshi Wayama|Kazunari Sugiyama