This paper is a report of the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA) workshop at SIGIR 2024. The workshop had two keynotes, a panel discussion, nine lightning talks, and two breakout sessions. Key takeaways were user simulation's importance in academia and industry, the possible bridging of online and offline evaluation, and the issues of organizing a companion shared task around user simulations for information access. We report on how we organized the workshop, provide a brief overview of what happened at the workshop, and summarize the main topics and findings of the workshop and future work.

翻译：本文是关于 SIGIR 2024 信息访问模拟研讨会 (Sim4IA) 的报告。本次研讨会包含两场主题演讲、一场专题讨论、九场闪电演讲以及两场分组讨论。主要收获包括用户模拟在学术界与工业界的重要性、在线与离线评估之间可能的桥梁作用，以及围绕信息访问用户模拟组织配套共享任务所面临的问题。我们报告了研讨会的组织方式，简要概述了研讨会期间的活动，并总结了研讨会的主要议题、发现以及未来的工作方向。