Best Papers Award

Best Demo

Luís Filipe Cunha, Nuno Guimarães, Alexandra Mendes, Ricardo Campos and Alipio Jorge
MedLink: Retrieval and Ranking of Case Reports to assist Clinical Decision Making

Best IR4Good Paper

Kevin Nanhekhan, Venktesh Viswanathan, Erik Martin, Henrik Vatndal, Vinay Setty and Avishek Anand
FlashCheck: Exploration of Efficient Evidence Retrieval for Fast Fact-Checking

Best Reproducibility Paper

Yongkang Li, Panagiotis Eustratiadis and Evangelos Kanoulas
Reproducing HotFlip for Corpus Poisoning Attacks in Dense Retrieval

Best Short Paper, Honorable Mention

Sean MacAvaney, Antonio Mallia and Nicola Tonellotto
Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval

Best Short Student Paper

Sebastian Bruch, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Rossano Venturini and Leonardo Venuta
Investigating the Scalability of Approximate Sparse Retrieval Algorithms to Massive Datasets

Best Short Paper

Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast and Matthias Hagen
Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-ranking

Best Student Paper, Honorable Mention

Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Eugene Yang, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Sam Barham, Sean MacAvaney, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Benjamin Van Durme and Dawn Lawrie
mFollowIR: a Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction Following in Information Retrieval

Best Paper, Honourable Mention

Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast and Matthias Hagen
Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-Passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-Ranking with Cross-Encoders

Best Paper (The Best Student Paper is also the Best Paper)

Manish Chandra, Debasis Ganguly and Iadh Ounis
One size doesn’t fit all: Predicting the Number of Examples for In-Context Learning

Best Papers Committee

Chair:

Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada

Makoto P. Kato, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research, Canada
Min Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Yi Zhang, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia