SIGIR 2025 Call for Participation - 13-17 July 2025, Padua, Italy
Registration deadlines:
Early registration: 20 May 2025
Regular registration: 13 June 2025
Late registration: 18 July 2025
The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results, and the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The 48th ACM SIGIR conference, will be run as an in-person conference from July 13th to 17th, 2025 in Padua, Italy, followed by ICTIR 2025 (
https://ictir2025.cs.umass.edu/) on July 18th, 2025.
SIGIR 2025 will feature an extremely rich program, consisting of keynote talks, research and industry sessions, posters and demos, doctoral consortium, workshops and tutorials, and the LiveRAG challenge, not forgetting amazing social events. SIGIR 2025 features: 239 full papers, 106 short papers, 26 demos, 10 perspectives papers, 71 resource and reproducibility papers, 35 SIRIP/industry papers, 16 TOIS papers, and 10 Low Resource Environments papers, a brand new track launched at SIGIR 2025 (
https://sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/low-resource-environments-track.html).
Children from 0 to 12 years of age are welcomed in a specially set up room inside Padua Congress Center throughout the duration of the congress. A colorful, “warm”, safe and welcoming environment, in the same structure that hosts the congresses, a protected place where parents can leave their children, but at the same time stay in touch with them during the breaks of the different sessions.
The nursery space dedicated to the 0-3 age group, equipped with a changing table and other facilities dedicated to the little ones, is next to the kids’ area for children over 3 years old and a cinema room for screenings.
The activities are run by a company specialized in education services with expert staff, appointed by Padua Congress Center, and include thematic workshops - from painting to creative activities - as well as playtime also in the open air, in the facility's outdoor spaces. Children are also offered lunch.
The child care service will be run by operators able to speak English, German, Spanish, and Italian. Other languages might be possibile but they will require specific agreements and the actual availability of an operator able to speak that language.
The service is available to all SIGIR 2025 attendees who request it. The registration form allows you to request the childcare service and, in case, in the registration confirmation email you will receive a request for additional information about your children.
Catering service is available on demand, included in the cost of service, and it covers lunch, morning and afternoon snack, juices and water.
Lunches and snacks can be managed directly by the educators. Alternatively parents can go to the Child Area to take care of lunches and snacks directly.
Parents will be allowed to use the kitchen in the area to heat up milk or food for younger children. Two microwave ovens and a refrigerator are available in the area.
Digitized Health by Ophir Frieder, Georgetown University, Washington DC (USA)
The "AI revolution" is lavished with accolades and showered with concerns, including some dire warnings. Regardless, this revolution continues to shape nearly all technology and domains. We focus specifically on medical applications that rely on search or recommendation technology. Relying on these technologies, we alleviate the ever-growing shortage of medical care personnel. Specifically, patient interactions are simplified by conversational agents, medical triage is accomplished by self-administered surrogates, early-onset of mental health conditions are detected through opt-in monitoring agents, and treatment suggestions are generated and evaluated via retrieval and mining applications. These are just some examples where search and related technologies are reshaping medical practice. Currently or soon to be deployed systems are described. "In progress" efforts are likewise highlighted. While some of the described systems rely on recent technology advances, others are simply based on "bread and butter" approaches, reminding us that "new and improved" is not always needed, and at times, is overkill and needlessly costly. We conclude with some observations.
Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words: can scientists and machines truly cooperate? By Iryna Gurevych, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
How can AI and LLMs facilitate the work of scientists in different stages of the research process? Can technology even make scientists obsolete? The role of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) in science as the target application domain has recently been rapidly growing. This includes assessing the impact of scientific work, facilitating writing and revising manuscripts as well as intelligent support for manuscript quality assessment, peer-review and scientific discussions. The talk will illustrate such methods and models using several tasks from the scientific domain. We argue that while AI and LLMs can effectively support and augment specific steps of the research process, expert-AI collaboration may be a more promising mode for complex research tasks.
BM25 and All That - A Look Back, by Stephen Robertson, Girton College, Cambridge (UK)
It is 30 years since the weighting-and-ranking function BM25 was published, and more than 55 years since I started work in the field we know as information retrieval. I will be talking about my experiences as an IR researcher over the period from 1968 to the early 2000s, including the development of the probabilistic model which led to BM25, and also some of the work on IR evaluation in the years since the Cranfield experiment. More generally, I will talk about some of the ways in which the field has changed and developed over that time, and about some of the characters who helped to shape the field, including my own interactions with them.
The goal of the LiveRAG Challenge is to allow research teams across academia and industry to advance their RAG research and compare the performance of their solutions with other teams, on a fixed corpus (derived from the publicly available FineWeb) and a fixed open-source LLM, Falcon3-10B-Instruct.
The SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge is organized by TII (Technology Innovation Institute) with support from AI71, AWS, Pinecone, and Hugging Face. It requires an application process, after which selected teams will be
awarded up to 1500 USD in AWS compute credits to train their RAG solution, and up to 750 USD in Pinecone compute credits to use/generate their RAG indices.
given early access to TII's DataMorgana tool to help them generate synthetic benchmarks for training and testing.
During the Live Challenge Day, the teams will be provided with a stream of unseen questions and will have to return their answers under strict response-time constraints. Finalists will be requested to present their results at the LiveRAG workshop day to be held at the SIGIR 2025 conference, during which winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded.
Full Day Workshops
ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2025: The Fourth Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval -
https://reneuir.org/ Half Day Workshops
Full Day Tutorials
Half Day Tutorials
Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the LLM Era
Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
Unveiling Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models for Trustworthy Information Access
Welcome Reception, Sunday July, 13, 2025
Student Event, Monday July, 14, 2025
SIGIR Social Dinner, Tuesday July, 15, 2025
ICTIR Social Dinner, Thursday July, 17, 2025