IR4Good Schedule
09.00-10.30 Part I
Introduction & Keynote I
09.00-09.10 Opening
09.10-10.00 (40 min talk + 10 min Q&A) Keynote: Giuseppe Attardi (already confirmed)
Session I: Diversity and Novelty in IR
10.00-10.15 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: How to Diversify any Personalized Recommender? by Manel Slokom et al.
10.15-10.27 (9 min talk + 3 min Q&A) SP: Improving Novelty and Diversity of Nearest-Neighbors Recommendation by Exploiting Dissimilarities by Pablo Sánchez et al.
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Part II
Session II: Fairness and Ethical Responsibility in IR
11.00-11.15 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: Call for Research on the Impact of Information Retrieval on Social Norms by Tim Gollub et al.
11.15-11.30 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: Fair Exposure Allocation using Generative Query Expansion by Thomas Jaenich et al.
11.30-11.45 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: Improving Minimax Group Fairness in Sequential Recommendation by Krishna Acharya et al.
11.45-12.00 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: LambdaFair for Fair and Effective Ranking by Federico Marcuzzi et al.
12.00-12.15 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: Tales and Truths: Exploring the Linguistic Journey of 19th Century Literature and Non-Fiction by Suchana Datta et al.
12.15-12.27 (9 min talk + 3 min Q&A) SP: How Child-Friendly is Web Search? An Evaluation of Relevance vs. Harm by Maik Fröbe et al.
12.30-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-16.00 Part III
Keynote II
14.30-15.20 (40 min talk + 10 min Q&A) Keynote TBA
Session III: Low-Resource Challenges in IR
15.20-15.35 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: Improving Low-Resource Retrieval Effectiveness using Zero-Shot Linguistic Similarity Transfer by Andreas Chari et al.
15.35-15.47 (9 min talk + 3 min Q&A) SP: Enabling Low-Resource Language Retrieval: Establishing Baselines for Urdu MS MARCO by Umer Butt et al.
15.47-15.59 (9 min talk + 3 min Q&A) SP: Multimodal Feature Extraction for Assistive Technology: Evaluation and Dataset by Hunter Briegel et al.
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Part IV
Session IV: IR Innovations for Social Good
16.30-16.45 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: FlashCheck: Exploration of Efficient Evidence Retrieval for Fast Fact-Checking by Kevin Nanhekhan et al.
16:45-17:00 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: Nano-ESG: Extracting Corporate Sustainability Information from News Articles by Fabian Billert et al.
17.00-17.15 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: Verifying Cross-modal Entity Consistency in News using Vision-language Models by Sahar Tahmasebi et al.
17.15-17.30 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: Poison-RAG: Adversarial Data Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Recommender Systems by Fatemeh Nazary et al.
17.30-17.45 (12 min talk + 3 min Q&A) FP: GASCADE: Grouped Summarization of Adverse Drug Event for Enhanced Cancer Pharmacovigilance by Sofia Jamil et al.
Conclusion
17.45-18.00 Closing