Six awards are presented at ECIR 2021, sponsored by Bloomberg (five out of six awards) and Signal (the Industry Impact Award).
The ECIR 2021 Best Paper Award, whose winner is chosen among the full papers accepted for presentation at the conference. The winner is chosen by a committee consisting of:
- Djoerd Hiemstra | Radboud University, NL (ECIR 2021 Program Co-Chair)
- Marie-Francine Moens | KUL Leuven, BE (ECIR 2021 Program Co-Chair)
- Allan Hanbury | Vienna University of Technology, AT,
- Arjen de Vries | Radboud University, NL
- Dyaa Albakour | Signal AI, UK
- Gareth Jones | Dublin City University, IE
- Fabio Crestani | University of Lugano, CH
- Gloria Bordogna | National Research Council, IT
- Jaap Kamps | University of Amsterdam, NL
- Joemon Jose | University of Glasgow, UK
- Henning Müller | HES-SO, CH
- Krisztian Balog | University of Stavanger, NO
- Norbert Fuhr | University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
- Suzan Verberne | Leiden University, NL
- Theodora Tsikrika | Information Technologies Institute CERTH, GR
- Udo Kruschwitz | University of Regensburg, DE
- Yashar Moshfeghi | University of Strathclyde, UK
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The ECIR 2021 Best Short Paper Award, whose winner is chosen among all short papers accepted for presentation at the conference. The winner is chosen by a committee consisting of:
- Josiane Mothe | Université de Toulouse, FR (ECIR 2021 Short Paper Co-Chair)
- Martin Potthast | Leipzig University, DE (ECIR 2021 Short Paper Co-Chair)
- Bruce Croft | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US
- Sean MacAvaney | University of Glasgow, UK
- Antonio Mallia | NYU Tandon School of Engineering, US
- Yosi Mass | IBM, IL
- Franco Maria Nardini | ISTI-CNR, IT
- Hai-Tao Yu | University of Tsukuba, JP
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The ECIR 2021 Best Reproducibility Paper Award, whose winner is chosen among all papers accepted for presentation at the conference in the Reproducibility Track. The winner is chosen by a committee consisting of:
- Maria Maistro | University of Copenhagen, DK (ECIR 2021 Reproducibility Track Co-Chair)
- Gianmaria Silvello | Università di Padova, IT (ECIR 2021 Reproducibility Track Co-Chair)
- Norbert Fuhr | University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
- Donna Harman | National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
- Claudia Hauff | Delft University of Technology, NL
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The ECIR 2021 Best Demo Award, whose winner is chosen among all demos accepted for presentation at the conference. The winner is chosen by a committee consisting of:
- Nattiya Kanhabua | Upwork, TH (ECIR 2021 Demo Co-Chair)
- Franco-Maria Nardini | ISTI-CNR, IT (ECIR 2021 Demo Co-Chair)
- Ludovico Boratto | EURECAT, ES
- Sérgio Nunes | University of Porto, PT
- Gianmaria Silvello | Università degli Studi di Padova, IT
- Jannik Strötgen | Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, DE
- Salvatore Trani | ISTI-CNR, IT
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The ECIR 2021 Industry Impact Award, that aims to recognise excellence in industrial impact, and hence to strengthen the connection and collaboration with industry. The winner of the Industry Impact Award is chosen among the full papers accepted for presentation at the conference. The selection committee is the same that chooses the winner of the ECIR 2021 Best Paper Award:
- Djoerd Hiemstra | Radboud University, NL (ECIR 2021 Program Co-Chair)
- Marie-Francine Moens | KUL Leuven, BE (ECIR 2021 Program Co-Chair)
- Allan Hanbury | Vienna University of Technology, AT,
- Arjen de Vries | Radboud University, NL
- Dyaa Albakour | Signal AI, UK
- Gareth Jones | Dublin City University, IE
- Fabio Crestani | University of Lugano, CH
- Gloria Bordogna | National Research Council, IT
- Jaap Kamps | University of Amsterdam, NL
- Joemon Jose | University of Glasgow, UK
- Henning Müller | HES-SO, CH
- Krisztian Balog | University of Stavanger, NO
- Norbert Fuhr | University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
- Suzan Verberne | Leiden University, NL
- Theodora Tsikrika | Information Technologies Institute CERTH, GR
- Udo Kruschwitz | University of Regensburg, DE
- Yashar Moshfeghi | University of Strathclyde, UK
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The ECIR 2021 Test of Time Award, whose winner is chosen among all papers presented at ECIR 2009, ECIR 2010, ECIR 2011, as the paper which has had the most significant impact on IR and outside IR since its publication. The winner is chosen by a committee consisting of:
- Gabriella Pasi | Università di Milano Bicocca, IT (ECIR 2021 Test of Time Award Chair)
- Fabio Crestani | University of Lugano, CH
- Arjen P. de Vries | Radboud University, NL
- Norbert Fuhr | University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
- Gareth Jones | Dublin City University, IE
- Josiane Mothe | Université de Toulouse, FR
- Emine Yilmaz | University College London, UK
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The winner is chosen by a committee consisting of:
- Claudio Lucchese | Università di Venezia, IT (DC Co-Chair)
- Guido Zuccon | University of Queensland, AU (DC Co-Chair)
- Karin Verspoor | RMIT University, AU
- Wen Hua | University of Queensland, AU
- Antoine Doucet | University of La Rochelle, FR
- Adam Jatowt | University of Innsbruck, A
- Nicholas J Belkin | Rutgers University, US