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QPP-TOIS 2025 : TOIS Special Issue on Query Performance Prediction Towards Novel Information Retrieval Paradigms

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Submission Deadline Mar 15, 2025
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Call For Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Special Issue on Query Performance Prediction Towards Novel Information Retrieval Paradigms

Guest Editors
Dr. Suchana Datta, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Guglielmo Faggioli, University of Padua, Italy
Prof. Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
Dr. Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Prof. Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

This special issue focuses on works involving QPP models that employ or are designed for novel searching and filtering paradigms, including but not limited to neural IR, Large Language Models, and Retrieval Augmented Generation, as well as the QPP evaluation paradigms also in light of recent IR advances.

QPP is a branch of IR evaluation: it is defined as the task of assessing or predicting the performance of a query without human-made relevance judgements. The focus of the special issue will be on three major topics concerning QPP:

• The development of novel QPP models that employ recent neural state-of-the-art solutions, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and semantic representations.

• The application of QPP models to novel IR tasks, such as conversational search, fairness-oriented tasks, multimedia and multimodal retrieval, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

• The evaluation of QPP methods performance.

Topics
We welcome submissions on the following topics, including but not limited to:

• Application of QPP to Neural Information Retrieval Systems

• Usage of QPP for modern tasks, including, but not limited to, conversational search, fairness, RAG, multimodal retrieval

• Usage of Large Language Models for QPP

• QPPs based on non-lexical (e.g., semantic, multimodal) signals

• Supervised QPP

• Simulation and construction of evaluation collections with Large Language Models

• QPP evaluation measures

• Development of QPP evaluation collection

• Performance Prediction in neighboring areas including NLP and Recommender Systems

• Theory underneath QPP

• Applications of QPP for downstream tasks, e.g., selective application of second-stage ranking or relevance feedback.

• Explainability of QPP models and QPP models for explainability

Click here for the full Call for Papers and submission instructions.

Important Dates
Submissions deadline: March 15, 2025
First-round review decisions: May 15, 2025
Deadline for revision submissions: July 15, 2025
Notification of final decisions: September 15, 2025
Tentative publication: Late 2025

For questions and further information, please write to Dr. Guglielmo Faggioli at guglielmo.faggioli@unipd.it.

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