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The First SIGIR
Workshop on Neural
Information Retrieval
Neu-IR 2016(Pronounced “new IR”)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/neuir2016
https://twitter.com/neuir2016
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W. Bruce CroftUniversity of Massachusetts
Amherst, US
Jiafeng GuoChinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
Maarten de RijkeUniversity of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bhaskar MitraBing, MicrosoftCambridge, UK
Nick CraswellBing, MicrosoftBellevue, US
A big welcome from allThe Organizers
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I’m certain that deep learning will come to dominate SIGIR over the next couple of years … just like speech, vision, and NLP before it. This is a good thing. Deep learning provides some powerful new techniques that are just being amazingly successful on many hard applied problems. However, we should realize that there is also currently a huge amount of hype about deep learning and artificial intelligence. We should not let a genuine enthusiasm for important and successful new techniques lead to irrational exuberance or a diminished appreciation of other approaches…
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We love the excitement!
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Neu-IR 2016Word Cloud
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Neu-IR 2016Word Cloud
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SIGIR 2016Word Cloud
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SIGIR 2016Word Cloud
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Neu-IR 2016 in numbers
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# of registrations
121as of July 19 (Tuesday)
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# of submissions
27excluding 3 incomplete submissions
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# of accepted papers
19excluding 1 withdrawn by the author
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% of accepted papers
73%excluding 1 withdrawn by the author
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# of accepted papers on word embeddings
8
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# of accepted papers on deep NNs
10
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# of accepted papers on document ranking
7Other tasks: QA, proactive,
conversational…
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# of accepted papers from academia
17based on first author’s affiliation
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# of countries based on first author
9spread across 3 continents
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# of reviewers
14including 9 PC members
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Program Committee
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Call for Papers
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Discuss,Share,Learn.Non-archival submissions to encourage more presentationsLessons from the Trenches to share learningsPoster sessions to facilitate 1:1 discussions
https://twitter.com/neuir2016
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The rest of this day…M
orni
ng I
Keynote: Tomas Mikolov
Paper presentations
Coffee breakM
orni
ng II
Lessons from the Trenches
Poster presentations
Lunch
Afte
rnoo
n I
Keynote: Hang Li
Paper presentations
Coffee break
Afte
rnoo
n II
Breakout session
Breakout session retrospective
Closing comments