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Lesley Frew WS-DL Group, ODU CS Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Evaluation and the need for multiple forms evaluation : Lesley Frew WS-DL Group, ODU CS Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden Universiteit Leiden

Lesley Frew WS-DL Group, ODU CS Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Can we use LLMs for data generation? * LLM + Refiner for more realistic and diverse output Lesley Frew WS-DL Group, ODU CS Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden Universiteit Leiden

Lesley Frew WS-DL Group, ODU CS Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Finally, Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ answered her initial question: Is the search engine of the future a chatbot? “Yes, probably. But IR perspectives remain as relevant as ever” What do we need to do? Lesley Frew WS-DL Group, ODU CS Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden Universiteit Leiden ACM CIKM 2024 #CIKM2024

You can still submit your paper to the 'IR4good' track at ECIR2025 Papers in this track are full papers related to societal concerns such as bias, fairness, privacy, transparency, and other aspects of responsible IR. ecir2025.eu/call-for-ir-fo… Deadline: October 30

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for full papers sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-full-pape… Share your research in IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Abstracts: Jan 16, 2025 - Full papers: Jan 23, 2025 - Notifications: Mar 28, 2025 More info? Ask Omar Alonso Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Andrew Trotman at [email protected]

Delighted to announce 1st speaker in our virtual speaker series. Talks+social Nov 7 @ 1p ET & biweekly onwards! Speaker Shiri Dori-Hacohen♿️🧠✡️🦓 (🚫🥄s). 🟣🎗️🏴 will introduce Disabled in Computing & speak about "Fairness via AI". Register: bit.ly/3NQFgZQ. Huge thanks AccessComputing for generous support.

Sharing with permission: The daughter of one of our colleagues in the SIGIR community passed away from an epileptic seizure. If you'd like to support -- he is now organizing a donation to help provide support to epilepsy patients and their loved ones: epilepsie.digicollect.nl/maarten-de-rij…

Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques is now available in the ACM DL. It's been a long road. Massive thanks to our friends and colleagues who contributed to the book. Many thanks to the ACM team for their hard work on publishing the copy dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.11…

Are you eager to contribute to the success of SIGIR 2025? You can self-nominate yourself for becoming a PC member for #sigir2025 at forms.gle/MdJrM8VsGUeHLU… We will process the self-nominations at the time of reviewer invitations in EasyChair; do not expect an immediate reply

It is this time of the year when you should think about early career researchers in the Information Retrieval field that deserve recognition! SIGIR has three categories of awards for early career researchers! sigir.org/awards/sigir-e… Self-nominations are also welcome! By Feb 16!

🎉 Excited to share that our full paper titled "Self-seeding and Multi-intent Self-instructing LLMs for Generating Intent-aware Information-Seeking dialogs" has been accpeted at #NAACL2025 together w/ Roxana Petcu, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Amin Abolghasemi, Evangelos Kanoulas, and @Suzan

Recommender system is not "kicked off" from SIGIR. In fact, in the papers that we kept and we sent out to review, recommender systems is still /by far/ the largest category. We looked at each individual paper to decide if it was on-topic for SIGIR. #SIGIR2025

Very pleased to host the next #SIGIR Virtual Forum Talk by Jingtao Zhan Work received Best Paper Award ACM SIGIR 2024 Free registration, please sign up here: forms.gle/sgS5r8cGQNfSbz… Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Charlie Clarke Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র Negar Arabzadeh THUIR_lab

In only two years LLM-based relevance assessment has gone from rejections because it’s crazy and dangerous to rejections because it is boring and standard.

.Isabelle Augenstein gave a great keynote as Karen Spärck Jones Award 2024 winner at #ecir2025. This is her outlook of where to go to next.

…and the next ECIR will be in Delft, The Netherlands! See you at #Ecir2026 Avishek Anand

ECIR 2025 was a great success. Hoping to make a memorable #ECIR2026 with the dream team of Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ and Zhaochun Ren … We will be preparing to welcoming all of us to Delft.

We're kicking off the Search Futures workshop ECIR2025. Starting with a talk on combining search and recommendation by Jujia Zhao, Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️

ModernBERT 🤜 🤛 ColBERT = ModernColBERT ModernColBERT is the latest state-of-the-art text-based late interaction model by LightOn. - Based on the ModernBERT-base encoder - Outperforms ColBERT-small on the BEIR retrieval benchmark Here’s a quick notebook I threw together

If, due to exceptional circumstances, you are not able to travel to Padua to present your paper, please contact the chairs at [email protected] on May 30th CEST the latest to discuss possible solutions. sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/inpresence-pol…