Publications

Tutorials

• Explainable Information Retrieval (Invited)

  [Tutorial]   [RAG Attribution and Evaluation]  
  Avishek Anand, Sourav Saha, Venktesh V
  In European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025.

• Explainable Information Retrieval

  [Tutorial]  
  Avishek Anand, Procheta Sen, Sourav Saha, Manisha Verma, Mandar Mitra
  In International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023.

Under Review

• Explainability of Text Processing and Retrieval Methods: A Survey

  [Arxiv]  
  Sourav Saha, Debapriyo Majumdar, Mandar Mitra
  

Conferences

• One Word is Enough: Minimal Adversarial Perturbations for Neural Text Ranking

  [Coming Soon]  
  Tanmay Karmakar, Sourav Saha, Debapriyo Majumdar and Surjyanee Halder
  In European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026 (To appear).

• ir_explain: a Python Library of Explainable IR Methods

  [Paper]   [Code]  
  Sourav Saha, Harsh Agarwal, Venktesh V, Avishek Anand, Swastik Mohanty, Debapriyo Majumdar and Mandar Mitra
  In International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025.

• Combining and Evaluating Query Performance Predictors: A Reproducibility Study

  [Arxiv]   [Code]   [Slides]  
  Sourav Saha, Suchana Dutta, Dwaipayan Roy, Mandar Mitra, Derek Greene
  In European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025.

• Measuring and Comparing the Consistency of IR Models for Query Pairs with Similar and Different Information Needs

  [Paper]   [Code]  
  Procheta Sen, Sourav Saha, Debasis Ganguly, Manisha Verma, Dwaipayan Roy
  In International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2022.

• On Modifying Evaluation Measures to Deal with Ties in Ranked Lists

  [Paper]  
  Sourav Saha, Mandar Mitra, Dwaipayan Roy
  In ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2022.

• I-REX: A Lucene Plugin for EXplainable IR

  [Paper]   [Demo]   [Code]  
  Dwaipayan Roy, Sourav Saha, Mandar Mitra, Bihan Sen, Debasis Ganguly
  In International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019 .

Unpublished Manuscript(s)

• LiCQA: A Lightweight Complex Question Answering System

  Sourav Saha, Dwaipayan Roy, Mandar Mitra
  [Coming soon!]