3 papers
cs.IR2026
As We May Search
Saber Zerhoudi, Adam Roegiest, Jelena Mitrovic +1
The sensitive information in personal documents, legal files, and medical records is among the most valuable things to search, yet current retrieval-augmented generation systems st…
cs.IR2026
IIRSim Studio: A Dashboard for User Simulation
Saber Zerhoudi, Adam Roegiest, Michael Granitzer
User simulation is a valuable methodology for evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR), enabling low-cost experimentation and counterfactual analysis. However, existing simulation…
cs.IR2026
Information Farming: From Berry Picking to Berry Growing
Leif Azzopardi, Adam Roegiest
The classic paradigms of Berry Picking and Information Foraging Theory have framed users as gatherers, opportunistically searching across distributed sources to satisfy evolving in…