Service · Negar Arabzadeh

SIGIR 2025

IR-RAG: Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems

Organizers: Negar Arabzadeh, Ziheng Chen, Fabio Petroni, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Giovanni Trappolini.
NeurIPS 2025

Vision-Language Models: Challenges of Real-World Deployment

Organizers: Mozhgan Nasr Azadani, Yimu Wang, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Negar Arabzadeh, Richard He Bai, Lukas Schmid.

CIKM 2026

Query Expansion Revisited: From Classical Retrieval to Agentic Search

Amin Bigdeli, Radin Hamidi Rad, Hai Son Le, Yibin Lei, Andrew Yates, Negar Arabzadeh, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ebrahim Bagheri.
WSDM 2025

Query Performance Prediction: Theory, Techniques and Applications

Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ebrahim Bagheri.
SIGIR-AP 2025

Query Performance Prediction: Techniques and Applications in Information Retrieval

Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ebrahim Bagheri.
ECIR 2024

Query Performance Prediction: From Fundamentals to Advanced Techniques

Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ebrahim Bagheri.
WSDM 2023

Preference-Based Offline Evaluation

Charles Clarke, Fernando Diaz, Negar Arabzadeh.
ECIR 2023

Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems

Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat, Ebrahim Bagheri.
SIGIR 2022

Gender Fairness in Information Retrieval Systems

Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat, Ebrahim Bagheri.

NeurIPS 2022

IGLU Challenge — Interactive Grounded Language Understanding

Co-organizer of a large-scale NLP challenge on human–AI collaboration. Led task design, dataset curation, and evaluation protocol; attracted 30+ participating teams.

2024

SIGIR Virtual Forum

Organized and moderated a monthly seminar series, inviting speakers from academia and industry.