Report on the First HIPstIR Workshop on the Future of Information Retrieval

TL;DR

This report summarizes the first HIPstIR workshop, where early-stage IR researchers collaborated over three days to develop new ideas and research agendas in information retrieval, focusing on non-mainstream approaches.

Contribution

It documents the organization, activities, and six research proposals from the inaugural HIPstIR workshop fostering early IR research collaboration.

Findings

Six research proposals were developed during the workshop.

The workshop successfully brought together early IR researchers from academia and industry.

The event established a platform for future IR research collaborations.

Abstract

The vision of HIPstIR is that early stage information retrieval (IR) researchers get together to develop a future for non-mainstream ideas and research agendas in IR. The first iteration of this vision materialized in the form of a three day workshop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire attended by 24 researchers across academia and industry. Attendees pre-submitted one or more topics that they want to pitch at the meeting. Then over the three days during the workshop, we self-organized into groups and worked on six specific proposals of common interest. In this report, we present an overview of the workshop and brief summaries of the six proposals that resulted from the workshop.