A CIIR paper received the Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR 2018. The paper, "Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models using Adversarial Learning," was co-authored by CIIR Doctoral student Daniel Cohen and Distinguished Emeritus Professor Bruce Croft along with Microsoft's Bhaskar Mitra and Katja Hofmann.
In addition, a paper presented at SIGIR 2006, "LDA-based document models for ad-hoc retrieval," by Xing Wei (CIIR alum, Ph.D. '07) and Bruce Croft, was selected for the SIGIR 2018 Test of Time Award Honorable Mention.