Advances in Information Retrieval

.- BioRAGent: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Showcasing Generative Query Expansion and Domain-Specific Search for Scientific Q&A. .- PIE-Med: Predicting, Interpreting and Explaining Medical Recommendations. .-FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advising. .- Semantic Search and Filtering with AI Agents. .- TheoremView: A Framework for Extracting Theorem-Like Environments from Raw PDFs. .- Checky, the Paper-Submission Checklist-Generator for Authors, Reviewers and LLMs. .- AirTOWN: A Privacy-Preserving Mobile App for Real-time Pollution-Aware POI Suggestion. .- Spoken Question Answering on Municipal Council Meetings. .- MindWell: A Conversational Agent for Professional Depression Screening on Social Media. .- Leveraging Language Models to Improve Human Annotation Efficiency with INCEpTION. .- DenseReviewer: A Screening Prioritisation Tool for Systematic Review based on Dense Retrieval. .- ASPIRE: Assistive System for Performance Evaluation in IR. .- MedLink: Retrieval and Ranking of Case Reports to assist Clinical Decision Making. .- Forecasting Prescription Efficacy. .- Rebuilding the Past: Reconstructing Portuguese News Outlets with Web Archives. .- MechIR: A Mechanistic Interpretability Framework for Information Retrieval. .- Web-scale Retrieval Experimentation with chatnoir-pyterrier. .- Automatic News Bias Classification for Strengthening Democracy [Demo]. .- Combining Knowledge Graphs and Retrieval Augmented Generation for Enterprise Resource Planning. .- Adapting LLMs for Domain-Specific Retrieval: A Case Study in Nuclear Safety. .- Jina Embeddings V3: Multilingual Text Encoder with Low-Rank Adaptations. .- PlotEdit: Natural Language-Driven Accessible Chart Editing in PDFs via Multimodal LLM Agents. .- RURAGE: Robust Universal RAG Evaluator for Fast and Affordable QA Performance Testing. .- Personalizing Enterprise Search with LLM Populated Attributes in Graph Models. .- Leveraging LLMs for Energy Forecasting: The AcegasApsAmga Case Study. .- Contextualizing Spotify’s Audiobook List Recommendations with Descriptive Shelves. .- Text2Playlist: Generating Personalized Playlists from Text on Deezer. .- Hierarchical prefixes for long document representations. .- On the Longitudinal Impact of Exposure Bias in Recommender Systems. .- Combining dissimilarity spaces to improve approximate similarity search. .- Towards Query Obfuscation Strategies for Information Retrieval. .- Automatic evaluation of online news outlets’ reliability. .- Cooperative and Competitive LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems for Recommendation. .- SynKGP: Knowledge Graph Population with Syntactic-LLM Hybridation for Question-Answering. .- Understanding Numerical Contexts in Text by Asking Quantitative Questions. .- Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems. .- Towards Intent-Driven Transparency in Conversational Search Systems. .- A Framework for Robust Query Performance Prediction Using Contextual Relationships. .- Enhancing Generative Models for Scientific Text Simplification. .- Explainable Information Retrieval. .- Fairness in Information Access: Conceptual Foundations and New Directions. .- Enhancing Reproducibility and Replicability in Information Retrieval: A Path Towards Scientific Integrity and Effective Research. .- Advanced Methods for Visual Information Retrieval and Exploration in Large Multimedia Collections. .- Tutorial on conversational search and recsys. .- Large Language Models are Human-like Annotators. .- Rapid Prototyping for AI-based Applications: A Hands-on Tutorial for Connecting the Dots. .- KEIR @ ECIR 2025: The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enh