Dear Colleagues,
We sincerely invite you to join The Second Workshop on Evaluation for Multimodal Generation (EvalMG) at the SIGIR'26 conference in Melbourne this year.
We have honourably invited four outstanding research leaders to deliver keynote speeches. And there will be paper presentations about how novel evaluation techniques are neccessary to the modern IR systems.
A brief overview of the speeches:
Speech one Title: Evaluating information access? Don't forget the questions Speaker: Prof Mark Sanderson, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Speech two Title: The Hidden Intervention: How Cross-Modal Pairing Encodes the Causal Structure of Reality Speaker: Prof Javen Shi, Adelaide University
Speech three Title: Evaluation of Pre-trained Vision-Language Models Speaker: Prof Jing Jiang, Australian National University
Speech Four Title: Evaluating Multimodal Conversation at Scale Speaker: Dr Paul Thomas, Microsoft
The detailed program can be found at https://evalmg.github.io/#program.
We look forward to seeing you at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 24 July 202.
If you are interested in joining, please fill out the Attendance EoI form at: https://forms.gle/csFc9Fv7eBn3xR8g6
EvalMG'26 Organisation Team Wei, Sarvnaz, Dai, Byron, Mong Yuan