📢 If you’re attending #SIGIR2026 in Melbourne, consider joining the Women in IR (WIR) event on Wednesday, July 22 (lunch time) @SIGIRConf

📝 It includes a low-effort poster session where you can introduce yourself, your research, and your interests using a simple template.
bit.ly/4vHIQdh
📩 Submit your poster here:
bit.ly/4v2p2jp

🌟 Highly recommend for early PhD students! It’s one of the best ways to meet other students and connect with senior researchers in a relaxed setting.

RT is highly appreciated!

📢 Call for Papers – ACM SIGIR-AP 2026

We are pleased to invite submissions to SIGIR-AP 2026, the 4th ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific, which will be held in Singapore, 13–15 December 2026.

🔗Conference Website: sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2026/…

Dear FAccT and IR friends, please register for the Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI) virtual social at @facct 2026. 📣📣📣 #FAccT2026
When: Friday, 6:00–7:30 PM EST
Location: Zoom
Register: drexel.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
More info: jedi.inertial.science/facct2026/

Registration deadlines have been extended for several #NTCIR19 tasks:

AgenticInstruction: July 10, 2026
SciClaimEval: July 10, 2026
ToT: July 1, 2026
DAGRI: July 15, 2026
Check the task details and register here:
research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19…
We look forward to your participation!

📢 NTCIR-19 Registration Extensions are here!

Several tasks have updated registration deadlines:

📅 AgenticInstruction → July 10
📅 SciClaimEval → July 10
📅 DAGRI → July 15
📅 ToT → July 1

Don't miss your chance to participate! 🚀

#NTCIR19 #NLP #IR #DeadlineExtension

🧵 Have you ever tried to re-find a movie you watched but cannot remember its name? Perhaps you vaguely remember the plot or a scene or the context in which you watched it. That's a Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) information need. Current search engines cannot solve them. #NTCIR19 (1/5)

📢 ACM ICTIR 2026 Call for Papers
🗓️ July 25, Melbourne (with SIGIR)
Inviting innovative & foundational IR research (theory, interdisciplinary, new models).
📝 Apr 16 submission | May 31 notification
🔁 SIGIR revise-and-resubmissions are welcome!
👉 sigir-ictir.github.io/ictir2026/

📢 NTCIR-19 Call for Task Participation is now open!
14 exciting tasks across LLM, IR, biomedical & financial NLP.
🗓️ Dec 2026, Tokyo
⏰ Earliest task registration deadlines: April–May
Join us! 👉 research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19…
#IR #NLP #LLM #NTCIR

📣𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗜@𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗥 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: The 10th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI

🎯𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽
Celebrating 10 years of SCAI, we explore advances in conversational AI, focusing on personalized conversational search, including a featured session of the iKAT shared task.

IR friends, the SIGIR Executive Committee is soliciting community input on safety of potential conference locations to inform the selection of future venues. Link to the survey has been shared over SIGIR Slack and SIG-IRList. Please fill-in the survey, we want to hear from you!🫵🏽

Super excited to share that our #SIGIR2026 workshop proposal "Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI): The SIGIR Workshop on Resisting Corporate and Authoritarian Capture of Information Access Platforms" has been accepted! 🎉🎉🎉

cc: @ACMSIGIR

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💸 Conferences don’t have to break the bank.
CHIIR 2026 registration fees are among the lowest for a top-tier IR/HCI conference and early registration is open!
🗓️ Early deadline: Jan 30
👉 chiir2026.github.io/register.html
#CHIIR2026

🎉 CHIIR 2026 notifications are OUT! 🎉
Congratulations to all accepted paper authors at #CHIIR2026! Your hard work and contributions are what make CHIIR a truly rewarding conference.
Join us for a highly rewarding CHIIR in Seattle this March
👉 chiir2026.github.io/register.html

#CHIIR isn’t just papers. 💬
We’re hosting special programs including an industry panel, bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss real-world challenges and impact.
More details coming soon — stay tuned! 👀

SIGIR-AP2025 has successfully concluded! Hope that everyone has a safe trip back :) Here is a summary of the event:
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aYKHW54wj6aZ… Looking forward to seeing you next year!

SIGIR-AP 2025 enters its final day!
Thank you to all participants, speakers, and organizers for making this event a success.
This afternoon, we continue with our workshop 1(BREV-RAG) and workshop 2(R3AG).
We look forward to seeing you again in the future!
#sigirap2025

Congratulations to all recipients of the best paper award, best paper runner up award, and outstanding reviewers awards presented at the SIGIR-AP 2025 banquet last night. #SIGIRAP2025

cc: @ACMSIGIR_AP

Congratulations!🥳🥳 #sigirap2025

Tonight at our conference banquet, SIGIR-AP 2025 will announce the Best Paper Award, Best Paper Runner-up Award, and several other honors selected from our Best Paper Shortlisted Nominees.
We’re excited to share this moment of recognition with all of you! #sigirap2025

Today is day #2 of SIGIR-AP 2025 conference. Please follow @ACMSIGIR_AP for news and updates. #SIGIRAP2025