Information Retrieval Research

In the second issue of IRRJ, Paul Kantor, writes an editorial arguing for a more critical adoption of generative AI in information retrieval (IR). He puts his concerns under three distinct headings: consistency, confidence, and completeness. Kantor is the founder of the predecessor Information Retrieval Journal, and together with co-founder Stephen Robertson, his advise helped to make IRRJ's first year a great success. Also in this issue, a survey of Inclusive Information Access by Yue Zheng and colleagues; Catarina Pires and colleagues discussing the Multimodal Medical Case Retrieval; Madhukar Dwivedi and Jaap Kamps presenting a reproducibility study of Identifying Passages for Due Diligence; Massimo Melucci's latest study of achieving fair rankings; Meng Yuan exploring the Correspondences Between Topic Models and Text Embeddings; and finally, Bhaskar Mitra's provocation for the role of information retrieval in emancipatory struggles. We hope this work will deepen your knowledge of IR. Thank your for reading IRRJ.