"...limited access to knowledge shapes a non-contextual research system that leaves Global South researchers in a position akin to driving a Formula 1 car on a corrugated road." #OAWeek

Happy #OAWeek! “The Cost of Knowledge” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 19-25). We create and share knowledge in order to advance human understanding and the common good. We recognize that accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right. Yet, the costs to […]

Published at #IRRJ: "NerAxom-MGF: Leveraging Multi-Granularity Fusion for Assamese Named Entity Recognition" by Punam Sarmah, Manash Lahkar, Shobhanjana Kalita, Utpal Sharma. #NamedEntityRecognition, #Assamese, #LowResourceNLP, #MultiGranularityFusion https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.26376

The #CCF Recommended International Academic Conference and Journal List is an official classification system maintained by the China Computer Federation: https://en.nevergpdzy.com/docs/Academic/china-ccf-recommended-conferences-journals/ It categorizes conferences and journals into A, B, and C […]

#IRRJ will support the call for abstracts for the 5th International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems #DESIRES, #DESIRES2027 https://irrj.org/announcement/view/358

E.g., big shout out to @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy and the team for realizing @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy as an alternative to the for-profit academic publishing ecosystem in IR. We need more such actions and experimentations on building counter-structures in the field. Website: irrj.org 57/

Proceedings of #SIGIR2026 are online: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... See you soon in Naarm! @acm.org @acmsigir.bsky.social

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | ACM Conferences

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We are wishing all #SIGIR participants and presenters a great, fruiteful time in Naarm! 🪃🦘 🐨 #SIGIR2026

In the editorial of our latest issue, Stephen Robertson reviews "The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a TechBillionaire" based on his personal encounter with Lynch: "Something to do with probability" by Stephen Robertson. #ProbabilityTheory, #BayesianStatistics […]

#IRRJ Volume 2, Number 1 of June 2026 is out! Check out the online issue at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol2no1 (as always, fully open access! you -- the reader -- does not pay, the authors did not pay, but all is covered by volunteers and donations from friend organisations)

Published at #IRRJ: "CASTlog: A Comprehensive Log of Children’s Interactions with the Child Adaptive Search Tool" by Christine Pinney, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Sole Pera, Jerry Alan Fails. #Children, #InformationRetrieval, #resource, #dataset, #QueryLog, #ChildSystemInteraction […]

Published at #IRRJ: "Beyond Hostility: Detecting Subtle and Overt Forms of Online Conflict with Multi-Objective Learning" by Oliver Warke, Joemon M. Jose, and Jan Breitsohl. #Hostility, #OnlineConflictDetection, #SocialMedia, #BehaviourAnalysis, #KnowledgeDistillation, #Transformers, #NLP […]

Published at #IRRJ: "Much Ado about Accessibility: An Exploration of Online Content Accessibility from an Autism-Informed Perspective" by Hrishita Chakrabarti and Maria Soledad Pera. #TextAnalysis, #Autism, #WebAccessibility, #SearchEngines, #LLMs https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.25297

Published at #IRRJ: "Much Ado about Accessibility: An Exploration of Online Content Accessibility from an Autism-Informed Perspective" by Hrishita Chakrabarti and Maria Soledad Pera. #TextAnalysis, #Autism, #WebAccessibility, #SearchEngines, #LLMs https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.25297

There will be an IRRJ special issue on ECIR: Participants of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (#ECIR2026), which took place from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, the Netherlands, are invited to submit an extended version of their ECIR 2026 paper. The special issue will be […]

Published at #IRRJ: "Simple Techniques for Efficient Top-k Batch Query Processing" by Zhixuan Li and Joel Mackenzie. #BatchProcessing, #Caching, #DynamicPruning, #EfficientRetrieval, #InformationRetrieval https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23893

Today, at the European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026, authors of #IRRJ papers presented their work in a dedicated #IRRJ session. A big thank you to our editors for running the journal!

The presentations for the #IRRJ session at the at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 are now in the conference schedule at: https://ecir2026.eu/programme/program-schedule/program/detail/38/irrj-papers-presentations

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RE: https://sigmoid.social/@IRRJ/116041172919973701 For everyone that celebrates April Fools Day: We don't. This is not a joke.

IRRJ@irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 9mo ago

BREAKING: There will be an #IRRJ paper session at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 on 1 April in Delft, The Netherlands. https://ecir2026.eu

BREAKING: There will be an #IRRJ paper session at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 on 1 April in Delft, The Netherlands. https://ecir2026.eu

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The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) is Europe's premier forum for cutting-edge research in

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Published at #IRRJ: "CRAWLDoc: A System for Contextual Ranking and Bibliographic Metadata Extraction from Web Resources" by Fabian Karl and Ansgar Scherp. #DocumentRanking, #BibliographicMetadataExtraction, #ScholarlyDataset https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23861

The PDF of the full #IRRJ issue, Volume 1 Number 2 of December 2025 is now available online at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no2 #InformationRetrieval

In the second issue of #IRRJ, Paul Kantor writes the editorial, arguing for a more critical adoption of generative AI in information retrieval. He puts his concerns under three distinct headings: consistency, confidence, and completeness. #GenAI, #GenerativeAI, #InformationRetrieval […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@oatp/115741422434397834 More of this, please.

Open Access Tracking Project@oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10mo ago

16 more grants to strengthen no-fee OA publishing in Africa | EIFL https://eifl.net/news/16-more-grants-strengthen-no-fee-oa-publishing-africa

BREAKING: Today, at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, we announced a partnership between #FIRE2025 and #IRRJ. There will be an IRRJ special issue on FIRE! 🔥 More information to be shared here soon.

Published at #IRRJ: "Emancipatory Information Retrieval" by Bhaskar Mitra. #InformationRetrieval, #Society, #EmancipatoryPraxis, #TechnologyAndPower https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.24531

Published at #IRRJ: "Exploring Embedding Interpretability by Correspondences Between Topic Models and Text Embeddings" by Meng Yuan, Lida Rashidi, and Justin Zobel. #InformationRetrieval, #EmbeddingInterpretability, #Explanability, #TopicModelling https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23703

Published at #IRRJ: "An Eigensystem for Topic Term Weighting yields Fair and Effective Document Rankings" by Massimo Melucci. #InformationRetrieval, #GroupFairness, #ProbabilityRankingPrinciple, #Eigensystem https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23480

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Open Access Tracking Project@oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11mo ago

L’Académie des sciences et le CNRS s’unissent pour développer un modèle de publication en libre accès sans frais, ni pour le lecteur ni pour l'auteur. | CNRS https://www.cnrs.fr/en/node/12218

Published at #IRRJ: "An Eigensystem for Topic Term Weighting yields Fair and Effective Document Rankings" by Massimo Melucci. #InformationRetrieval, #GroupFairness, #ProbabilityRankingPrinciple, #Eigensystem https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23480