Best Paper Award

Comes with a €1000 cash prize, sponsored by Bloomberg

Exploiting Stopping Time to Evaluate Accumulated Relevance

Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro (University of Padua)

Best Short Paper Award

Understanding BERT Ranker Under Distillation

Luyu Gao, Zhuyun Dai, Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Best Paper Nominations

“A Mixed-Method Analysis of Text and Audio Search Interfaces with Varying Task Complexity”
Alexandra Vtyurina, Charles L. A. Clarke, Edith Law (University of Waterloo),
Johanne R. Trippas (The University of Melbourne), Horaţiu Bota (Independent Researcher)

“Declarative Experimentation in Information Retrieval”
Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow), Nicola Tonellotto (University of Pisa)

“Exploiting Stopping Time to Evaluate Accumulated Relevance”
Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro (University of Padua)

Best Short Paper Nominations

“Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search and Lightweight Dense Vector Reranking in Multi-Stage Retrieval Architectures”
Zhengkai Tu (RSVP.ai), Wei Yang (RSVP.ai & University of Waterloo), Zihang Fu (RSVP.ai),
Yuqing Xie (RSVP.ai & University of Waterloo), Luchen Tan, Kun Xiong (RSVP.ai),
Ming Li, Jimmy Lin (RSVP.ai & University of Waterloo)

“Understanding BERT Ranker Under Distillation”
Luyu Gao, Zhuyun Dai, Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)

“Permutation Equivariant Document Interaction Network for Neural Learning to Rank”
Rama Kumar Pasumarthi, Honglei Zhuang, Xuanhui Wang, Michael Bendersky and Marc Najork (Google Research)