Evaluation campaigns, where researchers share important tasks, collaboratively develop test collections, and have discussion to advance technologies, are still important events to strategically address core challenges in information access research. The goal of this workshop is to discuss information access tasks that are worth addressing as a community, share new resources and evaluation methodologies, and encourage researchers to ultimately propose new evaluation campaigns in NTCIR, TREC, CLEF, FIRE, etc.

To accept a wide range of contributions, EMTCIR 2024 called for four types of papers, namely, emerging task, ongoing task, resource, and evaluation papers. As a result, we received five submissions in total: an emerging task paper, two ongoing task papers, a resource paper, and an evaluation paper. Each paper was reviewed by three program committee members. All the papers were accepted at the workshop and will be discussed in-person on December 12, 2024. The first half of the workshop mainly focus on the presentation of accepted contributions, while the latter half focuses on round-table discussion for exploring new tasks. After the round-table discussion, each table is expected to have a short presentation on a new task.

We greatly thank the program committee members for providing constructive reviews, and are grateful to the workshop co-chairs and reviewers of SIGIR-AP 2024 for their useful feedback and support. We hope that new evaluation campaigns emerge from this workshop.