ECIR 23 Tutorial: Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Information Retrieval

Laura Dietz, Hannah Bast, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeff Dalton, Edgar Meij, Arjen P. de Vries

Abstract: This tutorial will provide an overview of recent advances on neuro-symbolic approaches for information retrieval. A decade ago, knowledge graphs and semantic annotations technology led to active research on how to best leverage symbolic knowledge. At the same time, neural methods have demonstrated to be versatile and highly effective.