Accepted Papers

A wealth of unstructured textual content implicitly holds geographic insights that are valuable across various domains, such as geographic search, disaster management, spatial humanities, and disease surveillance. These applications rely on different text types and languages, target different geogra...

In the online digital ecosystem, we are surrounded by distinct forms of information pollution, posing significant threats to both individuals and society as a whole. Just think of the recent riots in England and Wales which were triggered by deliberate misinformation. Other instances of false news, ...

The IRAI workshop explores how information retrieval (IR) can promote accountability and integrity in public discourse and corporate commitments. It focuses on verifying forecasts, promises, and predictions using IR and NLP, bridging research and practice to foster transparency, responsible AI, and ...

We present a workshop proposal on \textit{Conversational AI and Search for Complex Information Needs}. Recent advances in conversational systems have expanded research beyond generative dialogue and factoid question-answering tasks, towards addressing complex information needs and improving user exp...

People often encounter or seek information on issues for which no clear answer exists. For example, information may be scarce or nonexistent, as in data voids or unanswerable questions; knowledge might be evolving, as with current events, emerging topics, or rumors; or there may be multiple perspect...

The increasing complexity of information access systems necessitates innovative evaluation methods beyond real-world user data, which is often biased, incomplete, or difficult to obtain due to privacy concerns. Simulation and synthetic data methods provide controlled and reproducible environments fo...

We propose the second workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA) to take place at ECIR 2026 as a half-day workshop. The workshop is building upon SCOLIA@ECIR 2025 and following up on the long series of the Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshops at ECIR. SCOLIA addresses r...

Late interaction retrieval methods, pioneered by ColBERT, have emerged as a powerful alternative to single-vector neural IR. By leveraging fine-grained, token-level representations, they have been demonstrated to deliver strong generalisation and robustness, particularly in out-of-domain settings. T...

For eight years, Text2Story has gathered researchers on narrative understanding, detecting, representing, and reasoning over stories in text. Recent progress and discussions have been driven by Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs), which are increasingly central to the field and have reshap...

We propose the third International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS) at ECIR~2026 with two calls for contributions: The first call targets scientific contributions on collaborative search engine building, including crawling, deployment, evaluation, and use of the web as a resource by researchers an...