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Report on The Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024
Published
Author(s)
Leif Azzopardi, Charles Clarke, Paul Kantor, Bhaskar Mitra, Johanne Trippas, Zhaochun Ren, Ian Soboroff
Abstract
The First Search Futures Workshop, in conjunction with the Fourty-sixth European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2024, looked into the future of search to ask questions such as: ˆ How can we harness the power of generative AI to enhance, improve and re-imagine Information Retrieval (IR)? ˆ What are the principles and fundamental rights that the field of Information Retrieval should strive to uphold? ˆ How can we build trustworthy IR systems in light of Large Language Models and their ability to generate content at super human speeds? ˆ What new applications and affordances does generative AI offer and enable, and can we go back to the future, and do what we only dreamed of previously?
Azzopardi, L.
, Clarke, C.
, Kantor, P.
, Mitra, B.
, Trippas, J.
, Ren, Z.
and Soboroff, I.
(2024),
Report on The Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024, SIGIR Forum
(Accessed October 10, 2025)