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Delighted to share that our full paper “Zero-Shot and Efficient Clarification Need Prediction in Conversational Search” w/ LILI LU, Federico Ravenda, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Fabio Crestani got accepted at ECIR2025 #ecir2025

In this work, we also explore fine-tuning LLMs to generate relevance judgments for conversational search scenarios. This work builds on the LLM fine-tuning approach introduced in QPP-GenRE: Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.01012 Code: github.com/ChuanMeng/QPP-…

Interested in leveraging LLMs to generate synthetic information-seeking dialogue data with structured intents/actions? 🚀 Check out our full paper accepted at #NAACL2025 #LLM

📢 Due to some requests, we have EXTENDED the submission deadline by ‼️TWO WEEKS‼️ 📝 New Submission Deadline: 10th March, 2025 We welcome both original and previously published papers for presentation at the workshop.

📢If you are attending #WSDM2025 , join us for our tutorial on "Query Performance Prediction: Theory, Techniques, and Applications" 📍 Location: Konferenzraum 15 WSDM Conference 🕣 Time: 8:30 AM CET w/ Chuan Meng Mohammad Aliannejadi Ebrahim Bagheri #SIGIR #LLMs

Today is the submission deadline! Don’t forget to submit your paper.

📢 The final schedule for the Query Performance Prediction (QPP++ 2025) Workshop at ECIR2025 is now live! 📅 Join us on 10th April 2025: qppworkshop.github.io 🎤 Keynote by Debasis Ganguly : "The Role of Query Performance Prediction in Developing Adaptive Search and RAG Systems"

Looking fwd to my talk on 10th ECIR2025, where I'll be giving a perspective on the potentials of applying #QPP to improve #RAG.

Join us for the QPP Workshop today starting at 9 AM in the Sagrestia, IMT Campus!

Chuan Meng ECIR2025 Delighted to deliver the keynote at the QPP++ workshop. Thanks a lot to the organizers Chuan Meng Guglielmo Faggioli Josiane Mothe for inviting me. Slides: tinyurl.com/4t23dj2y

Happy to share that our tutorial “Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the LLM Era”, with Fengran Mo, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Jian-Yun Nie, got accepted at SIGIR 2025 #SIGIR2025! Look forward to engaging discussions on LLM-based and agentic conversational search.

Excited to share the list of SheffieldNLP accepted papers at ACL 2025 , ICML Conference , and SIGIR 2025 Congrats to all authors, especially our first-time PhD presenters! 🎉 Thread coming soon with details on each paper!