# Report on the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18024 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.18024/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 26 Sep 2024.

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.04410/) (2025)
- [CSP: A Simulator For Multi-Agent Ranking Competitions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.11197/) (2025)
- [Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.11687/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper is a report of the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA) workshop at SIGIR 2024. The workshop had two keynotes, a panel discussion, nine lightning talks, and two breakout sessions. Key takeaways were user simulation's importance in academia and industry, the possible bridging of online and offline evaluation, and the issues of organizing a companion shared task around user simulations for information access. We report on how we organized the workshop, provide a brief overview of what happened at the workshop, and summarize the main topics and findings of the workshop and future work.