2. W. Bruce Croft
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, US
Jiafeng Guo
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
Maarten de Rijke
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bhaskar Mitra
Bing, Microsoft
Cambridge, UK
Nick Craswell
Bing, Microsoft
Bellevue, US
A big welcome from all
The Organizers
3. From the IR zodiac:
The year of the
Neural Nets
Almost 1 in 4
papers at this
year’s SIGIR
was related to
neural IRAn Introduction to Neural Information Retrieval. Bhaskar Mitra and Nick Craswell, in
Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, Now Publishers, 2017 (under review).
4. From the IR zodiac:
The year of the
Neural Nets
SIGIR 2016 full paper titles SIGIR 2017 full paper titles
Even compared
to last year we
see a growth in
neural IR topics
5. From the IR zodiac:
The year of the
Neural Nets
SIGIR 2016 full paper titles SIGIR 2017 full paper titles
Even compared
to last year we
see a growth in
neural IR topics
6. From the IR zodiac:
The year of the
Neural Nets
250+ registrations
for NN4IR tutorial
Lots of interests
and excitement!