CIIR researchers will present seven papers at the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026) in Melbourne, Australia in July. SIGIR is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval.
Papers:
Evaluation of Information Access Agents under Simulated AI Marketplace Dynamics
To Eun Kim, Alireza Salemi, Fernando Diaz, Hamed Zamani
Exploring and Improving Cross- and Multi-Domain Personalized Question Answering via a Dual Retrieval Augmentation Approach
Ozel Yilmazel, Hamed Zamani, James Allan
Learning from Natural Language Feedback for Personalized Question Answering
Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani
Learning to Reason for Multi-Step Retrieval of Personal Context in Personalized Question Answering
Maryam Amirizaniani, Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani
The Impact of Scaling Embedding Dimension on Retrieval Performance
Julian Killingback, Mahta Rafiee, Manas Madine, Hamed Zamani
Total Recall QA: A Verifiable Evaluation Suite for Deep Research Agents
Mahta Rafiee, Heydar Soudani, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Faegheh Hasibi, Hamed Zamani
Uncertainty Quantification for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
Heydar Soudani, Hamed Zamani, Faegheh Hasibi
Papers are sorted in alphabetical order. Bold author names represent current UMass/CIIR affiliates.
