| 8 | Extended abstract | A Dataset for Joint Conversational Search and Recommendation | Alessio, Marco; Merlo, Simone; Di Noia, Tommaso; Faggioli, Guglielmo; Ferrante, Marco; Ferro, Nicola; Ioana Muntean, Cristina; Nardini, Franco Maria; Narducci, Fedelucio; Perego, Raffaele; Santucci, Giuseppe; Viterbo, Nicola |
| 18 | Extended abstract | Beyond Homogeneous Users: Simulating Diverse User Personas for Conversational Recommendation Datasets | Martina, Alessandro Francesco Maria; Petruzzelli, Alessandro; Musto, Cataldo; de Gemmis, Marco; Lops, Pasquale; Semeraro, Giovanni |
| 7 | Extended abstract | Beyond Relevance: Quantifying Distraction of Irrelevant Passages in RAG | Amiraz, Chen; Cuconasu, Florin; Filice, Simone; Karnin, Zohar |
| 4 | Extended abstract | Caser+ and CosRec+: Closing the Gap Between CNNs and Attention Models in SRS | Siciliano, Federico; Purificato, Antonio; Betello, Filippo; Tonellotto, Nicola; Silvestri, Fabrizio |
| 14 | Extended abstract | Comparing LLMs and Traditional Privacy Measures to Evaluate Query Obfuscation Approaches | De Faveri, Francesco; Faggioli, Guglielmo; Ferro, Nicola |
| 25 | Extended abstract | Comparing Recommendation Losses under Negative Sampling | Siciliano, Federico; Di Teodoro, Giulia; Tonellotto, Nicola; Silvestri, Fabrizio |
| 16 | Extended abstract | Counterfactual Dimension Importance Estimation (CoDIME) for Dense Information Retrieval | Faggioli, Guglielmo; Ferro, Nicola; Perego, Raffaele; Tonellotto, Nicola |
| 21 | Extended abstract | Diffusion Models for Recommendation: Reproducibility and Conceptual Mismatch | Benigni, Michael; Ferrari Dacrema, Maurizio; Jannach, Dietmar |
| 10 | Extended abstract | Eclipse: Leveraging Pseudo-Irrelevance for Dimension Importance Estimation | D’Erasmo, Giulio; Trappolini, Giovanni; Tonellotto, Nicola; Silvestri, Fabrizio |
| 26 | Extended abstract | Effective and Transparent Course Recommendation through Causal Reasoning with Language Models | Afreen, Neda; Boratto, Ludovico; Fenu, Gianni; Marras, Mirko; Soccol, Alessandro |
| 17 | Extended abstract | Efficient Conversational Search via Topical Locality in Dense Retrieval | Muntean, Cristina Ioana; Nardini, Franco Maria; Perego, Raffale ; Rocchietti, Guido; Rulli, Cosimo |
| 6 | Extended abstract | Enhancing Ground Truth Creation for IR Through Web-Based Collaborative Annotation | Irrera, Ornella; Marchesin, Stefano; Silvello, Gianmaria |
| 20 | Extended abstract | Graph Augmentation with LLMs for Knowledge-Aware Recommender System | Spillo, Giuseppe; Musto, Cataldo; Mannavola, Matteo; de Gemmis, Marco; Lops, Pasquale; Semeraro, Giovanni |
| 28 | Extended abstract | Investigating Mixture of Experts in Dense Retrieval | Sokli, Effrosyni; Kasela, Pranav; Peikos, Georgios; Pasi, Gabriella |
| 9 | Extended abstract | Investigating Task Arithmetic for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval | Braga, Marco; Kasela, Pranav; Raganato, Alessandro ; Pasi, Gabriella |
| 27 | Extended abstract | Knowledge is Power: Boosting Recommender Systems by Infusing LLMs with Domain Expertise | Petruzzelli, Alessandro; Musto, Cataldo; de Gemmis, Marco; Lops, Pasquale; Semeraro, Giovanni |
| 2 | Extended abstract | Lean and Green: Computational Efficiency and Nudging for Sustainable Fashion Recommendation | Geninatti Cossatin, Angelo |
| 24 | Extended abstract | Less Data, More Questions: Fairness and Accuracy Under Data Minimization in Recommender Systems | Bufi, Salvatore; Paparella, Vincenzo; Anelli, Vito Walter; Di Noia, Tommaso |
| 15 | Extended abstract | MDCU: A Multi-Dimensional Cumulative Utility Metric for Information Retrieval. | De Faveri, Francesco; Faggioli, Guglielmo; Ferro, Nicola; Järvelin, Kalervo |
| 3 | Extended abstract | Neural Web Crawling | Pezzuti, Francesca; MacAvaney, Sean; Tonellotto, Nicola |
| 1 | Extended abstract | PARK: Personalized Academic Retrieval with Knowledge-graphs | Kasela, Pranav; Pasi, Gabriella; Perego, Raffaele |
| 22 | Extended abstract | Siren Federate: Bridging Document, Relational, and Graph Models for Exploratory Graph Analysis | Bordea, Georgeta; Campinas, Stéphane; Catena, Matteo; Delbru, Renaud |
| 12 | Extended abstract | The KIMERA Infrastructure: Shifting from Evaluation-as-a-Service to Evaluation-in-the-Cloud | Pasin, Andrea; Ferro, Nicola |
| 5 | Extended abstract | kANNolo: Facilitating Research in Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search | Martinico, Silvio; Delfino, Leonardo; Erriquez, Domenico; Nardini, Franco Maria; Venturini, Rossano; Rulli, Cosimo |
| 23 | Full | Empowered or Lost? How Search Tools and Social Networks Shape Teen Learning in an AI World. | Murgia, Emiliana; Landoni, Monica; Huibers, Theo; Pera, Maria Soledad |
| 11 | Short | A Grading Methodology for E-commerce Reviews based on a Mixed Lexical-semantic Approach | Scarpi, Giuseppe; Khorrami Chokami, Amir; Reforgiato, Diego |
| 13 | Short | Leveraging LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems to Enhance Customer Experience in Complex Product Domains | Valentini, Marco; Ferrara, Antonio; Di Noia, Tommaso; Illuzzi, Giuseppe; Colacicco, Pierangelo |