
Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com
@damiano10
PhD in Comp Sci., DECRA, Senior Lecturer, @RMITComputing, @AdmsCentre. CM Camaleão, Capoeira @ACDP_Australia. Percussionist at @Wombatuque.
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Full two days of workshops, tutorials, and DC tomorrow and Friday. 📍Building 16 (Storey Hall) - RMIT University maps.app.goo.gl/MinG2Fy9kwmoUs… 🕘 9am kick off #chiir2025 ACM CHIIR 2025 Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com Prof/Dr Lisa M Given, FASSA 🇨🇦🇦🇺 KAIXIN JI

What makes a good #searchengine? These 4 #models can help you use search in the age of #AI writes Simon Coghlan, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, and Hui Chia Read Here: theaustraliatoday.com.au/what-makes-a-g… Dr Amit Sarwal 🇮🇳 🇦🇺 Dr Shailendra B Singh Pallavi Jain RMIT University University of Melbourne The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com


Now on EvALL, you can publish your datasets so others can evaluate their models against them! Ensure fair and reliable benchmarking for everyone. Try it now! 👉 evall.uned.es #AI #Evaluation #Benchmarking #ML nlp.uned.es ETSI Informática UNED


🎉 CHIIR 2025 has officially concluded. Huge thanks to organising teams, keynote speakers, presenters, volunteers, and everyone who joined us — see you next year in Seattle, Chirag Shah Ryen White ! 👋 George Buchanan Haiming Liu A/Prof. Dana McKay Mark Sanderson Johanne Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com





Can #LLMs perform basic numeracy tasks? How do we find out? If you're attending #NAACL2025 drop by to Session B (11:00 - 12:30) to check out our poster and say hi to Rahmad Mahendra aclanthology.org/2025.findings-… w/ Lawrence Cavedon & karin verspoor (professor) RMIT School of Computing Technologies ARC Training Centre Cognitive Computing Med Tech


📣📣 Registration to SIGIR 2025 is now open at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/registration.h… Deadlines: - Author: May 9 - Early: May 20 - Regular: June 13 - Late: July 18 You can ask for a VISA letter (sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/visa-appl.html) and for Childcare service (sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/child-care.html).


Proceedings of #CHIIR2025 ACM SIGIR ACM CHIIR 2025 are now available at the ACM Digital Library: dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding…


The pre-print of our #SIGIR2025 SIGIR 2025 short paper on 'Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data' is now available: damianospina.com/publication/he… w/ Jiaman He Johanne A/Prof. Dana McKay Zikang Leng RMIT School of Computing Technologies Georgia Tech



Are Google and other search engines getting worse, or do we need to rethink how we search? I really enjoyed chatting about this in a recent interview with Johanne and Ashwin Nagappa check out the article! 🔗 abc.net.au/news/science/2… RMIT School of Computing Technologies #ADMS RMIT University


⏰ Don’t miss the early registration for CLEF 2025! Join us in Madrid for a unique experience with CLEF’s evaluation labs — from multilingual fact-checking to generative model evaluation.📅 Sept 9–12 🌍 tinyurl.com/CLEF2025 #clef2025 CLEF nlp.uned.es ETSI Informática UNED

The paper describing our GRAG finalist approach of the SIGIR 2025 #sigir2025 #LiveRAG Challenge is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14516 We also released the code: github.com/rmit-ir/GRAG-L… admscentre.org.au/adms-researche… Happy GRAGging! Oleg Zendel Kun Shuoqi Sun Khoi Nguyen


It was really nice to collaborate with Oleg Zendel, Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com, Kun, and Khoi Nguyen. Our work, GRAG, was named one of the finalists of the #LiveRAG Challenge at the #sigir2025 SIGIR 2025. Have a look at the paper and chat with us SIGIR 2025 if you are interested!