Welcome to

Neu-IR’17The Second SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval

http://neu-ir.weebly.com

@NeuIRwkshp

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W. Bruce Croft

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, US

Jiafeng Guo

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Beijing, China

Maarten de Rijke

University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Bhaskar Mitra

Bing, Microsoft

Cambridge, UK

Nick Craswell

Bing, Microsoft

Bellevue, US

A big welcome from all

The Organizers

From the IR zodiac:

The year of the Neural Nets

Almost 1 in 4

papers at this

year’s SIGIR

was related to

neural IR An Introduction to Neural Information Retrieval. Bhaskar Mitra and Nick Craswell, in

Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, Now Publishers, 2017 (under review).

From the IR zodiac:

The year of the Neural Nets

SIGIR 2016 full paper titles SIGIR 2017 full paper titles

Even compared

to last year we

see a growth in

neural IR topics

From the IR zodiac:

The year of the Neural Nets

SIGIR 2016 full paper titles SIGIR 2017 full paper titles

Even compared

to last year we

see a growth in

neural IR topics

From the IR zodiac:

The year of the Neural Nets

250+ registrations

for NN4IR tutorial

Lots of interests

and excitement!

Hype?

Genuine momentum?

Probably a mix of both.

Neu-IR 2017 in numbers

# of registrations

178as of August 1

(end of online registrations)

# of submissions

25special track: 6, general track: 19

# of accepted papers

19special track: 5, general track: 14

% of accepted papers

76%special track: 83%, general track: 74%

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