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CIRES Attends SWIRL 2025

CIRES Chief Investigator, Professor Gianluca Demartini participated in the Fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) in Lorne Victoria from 9-12 February 2025. SWIRL is an invitation-only gathering of the leading international researchers who come together every 5-6 years to collaboratively develop a research roadmap for Information Retrieval research for the next 5+ years. The […]

CIRES Chief Investigator, Professor Gianluca Demartini participated in the Fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) in Lorne Victoria from 9-12 February 2025.

SWIRL is an invitation-only gathering of the leading international researchers who come together every 5-6 years to collaboratively develop a research roadmap for Information Retrieval research for the next 5+ years. The reports produced in previous SWIRL workshops are highly cited and have been influential on the research done by both academia and industry in Information Retrieval. The final report will be made available in the SIGIR Forum Journal.

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