Report on the SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks (ATIR)

The SIGIR 2017 workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks took place on August 11, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. The workshop aimed to help foster collaboration of researchers working on different perspectives of axiomatic thinking and encourage discussion and research on general methodological issues related to applying axiomatic thinking to information retrieval and related tasks. The program consisted of one keynote talk, four research presentations and a final panel discussion. This report outlines the events of the workshop and summarizes the major outcomes. More information about the workshop is available at https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/ATIR.html.