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Call For ACM TOIS Special Section on Pre-trained Models for Search and Recommendation. The submission entry has already opened. Deadline: Feb 1, 2024.

Listening at the Tiger talk by Weronika Lajewska on response generation for conversational information-seeking systems RMIT Centre for Info Discovery & Data Analytics @AdmsCentre

📢📢The ACM CUI call for **full papers** is out. 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻Deadline: Feb 15 (Abstracts) & Feb 22 (Papers) cui.acm.org/2024/ ACM CUI 2024 will be held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, from 8th–10th July 2024. #CUI24 #SIGIR24 #CHI24 #ConversationalAI #convsearch

Launching tomorrow! Stay tuned! Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) Enrico Coiera David Hansen Digital Health CRC Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare Australian Institute of Health Innovation RMIT School of Computing Technologies K Butler-Henderson

Search and recsys down under is more alive than ever! The Melbourne Search and Recommendation Group has reached 1k members! Mark Sanderson Vincent Li RMIT Centre for Info Discovery & Data Analytics @AdmsCentre #Melbourne #Naarm #IR #Search #RecSys meetup.com/melbourne-sear…

Happening now - #SIGIR_AP2023 in Beijing! Check out the 4 awesome tutorials happening today, along with keynotes on cutting-edge IR topics. Learn more: sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2023/

Evaluation has always paid a very important role in information retrieval/search. Recent advances with LLMs are bringing lots of new possibilities in getting labels. A great article about this, and delighted to see many known IR researchers being cited. searchengineland.com/quality-rater-…

The second day of #SIGIR_AP2023 #MelbourneSatellite is kicking off with KAIXIN JI presenting her #ubicomp2023 work on using physiological signals to characterise interactive information seeking processes

Opening the morning session with KAIXIN JI presenting her winning work from the #ubicomp conference. An interesting angle on IR and information processing from a cognitive and physiological point of view At the Melbourne @SIGIR_AP #sigir_ap hub

Really enjoy the "encore track" at #sigir_ap2023 Now @W_Lajewska presents her winning #cikm2023 resource paper for conversational search. @W_Lajewska presents a great refreshing approach interacting with Mturk workers, engaging with the workers aiming for quality over quantity

Thanks to the organisers for putting together such a great program. I'm sure the in-person experience in Beijing was as good as the one we had here in Melbourne/Naarm! #SIGIR_AP #MelbourneSatellite @SIGIR_AP x.com/SIGIR_AP/statu…

Tutorial notifications have been sent. We had a really great set of submissions, and have a really great lineup of tutorials for #ecir2024! Thank you to all of the reviewers and to the track chairs Mohammad Aliannejadi & Johanne for all of your hard work!

Great talk and demonstration today from Meng Chen of his chatbot at Melbourne Search and Recommendation Group , RMIT School of Computing Technologies

Thanks for having me! I highly recommend the new book by Dr Tyson Yunkaporta: textpublishing.com.au/books/right-st… #stemltshowcase2023

The first Virtual Form event that we organized in a timezone suitable for participants from Europe, Asia, and Oceania, was a great success. We now host a 2nd edition at a timezone that is friendly for the Americas. Again with a great panel! Please feel welcome to join ⬇️

Very glad to see that the "AI and Automation in News and Media" @AdmsCentre report is out! Check it out: admscentre.org.au/news-and-media…

Additional benefits of attending our IR reading group in person. ...and of having Weronika Łajewska visiting us. Thank you, they were so tasty! 🎄 RMIT Centre for Info Discovery & Data Analytics RMIT School of Computing Technologies @AdmsCentre

About to leave from Melbourne: they have been three beautiful and productive months spent with the @AdmsCentre and Society and RMIT University . Thank you Mark Sanderson, Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com, Falk Scholer, Luke Gallagher, Yongli Ren and all the other friends and colleagues for the warm hospitality 👋

"Walert: Putting Conversational Information Seeking Knowledge into Action by Building and Evaluating a Large Language Model-Powered Chatbot" accepted as demo paper to #CHIIR2024 Sachin PC L. Tian Futoon M. abushaqra Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula KAIXIN JI Danula Hettiachchi Johanne H. Ali & F. Scholer

"Enhancing Human Annotation: Leveraging Large Language Models and Efficient Batch Processing" accepted at #CHIIR2024 ACM CHIIR 2025 We reveal cost, time, and result improvements in aligning GPT models with human experts through batched topic annotation with J. Shane Culpepper Paul Thomas&Falk