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Now at #ECIR2023, Dr. Jochen L. Leidner (AI professor/advisor) talking about “Automatic Summarization of Financial Earnings Calls Transcripts” and finds that a (carbon-friendly!) grep-based approach outperforms a BERT-based model in terms of precision, recall not so much :).

Today ECIR 2023, Edgar Meij, our Head of #AI Search, will present two parts of the full-day "Neuro-Symbolic Representations for #InformationRetrieval" tutorial he organized with L. Dietz @[email protected] @[email protected], Hannah Bast, Jeff Dalton, Shubham Chatterjee | শুভম চ্যাটার্জী | 🇮🇳, & @[email protected] 🕊️🇺🇦 bloom.bg/3UcWbbC #ECIR2023

What is the best way to use language models for ranking tasks, such as "rank the following countries by size: 🇺🇸,🇨🇳,🇨🇦,🇷🇺"? We study pairwise, pointwise and listwise prompting as well as unsupervised Contrast-Consistent Ranking (CCR): preprint arxiv.org/pdf/2309.06991… ⬇️ thread

#CFP: Applications for Bloomberg's 2024-25 #DataScience Ph.D. #Fellowship are now being accepted Submission deadline: May 30, 2024 (11:59 PM AoE) bloom.bg/3w0TDpp #ML #NLProc #AI #AISafety #GenerativeAI #GenAI #informationretrieval #LLMs #RAG #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration

The SIGIR Industry track (SIRIP 2024) kicking off with Spotify’s Paul Bennett delivering his keynote “Toward AI-Powered Next Generation Personalized Experiences” #SIGIR2024 #SIRIP2024

Next up is Christophe Van Gysel talking about “Synthetic Query Generation using Large Language Models for Virtual Assistants” at Apple #SIGIR2024 #SIRIP2024

Second and final SIGIR Industry Track keynote kicking off, with Feminist Killjoy talking about “Responsible Generative IR” #SIGIR2024 #SIRIP

Final event in SIGIR 2024’s Industry Track is the panel “Are Embeddings Enough? SIRIP Panel on the Future of Embeddings in Industry IR Systems”, with representatives from Spotify, Google, eBay, and Adobe. See sigir-2024.github.io/keynotes_SIRIP… #SIGIR2024 #SIRIP

And, finally, a big shoutout to my rockstar co-chair Tao Ye, it was a pleasure to work together!

Meet me and our AI Engineering group, and learn more about our day-to-day 👋 . Oh and we're hiring! 🚀

Look what I found! After 30 years in a box, it's the 16M (that's meg, not gig) flash card that I used to write the Format dialog back in the early Windows days. There was no practical virtual disk software at the time, at least that I was aware of, and formatting a physical

If you've got ideas for the future of RAG evaluation, consider submitting to the Eval4RAG workshop!

In today's 2nd Workshop on #LLMs for Evaluation in #InformationRetrieval (#LLM4Eval) at #WSDM2025 (09:15 CET), Edgar Meij, our Head of #AI Platforms Engineering, will deliver a keynote on "Synthetic Evaluations & #GenAI Application Development" bloom.bg/4hyocEi #AI

Bloomberg's #AI Engineering Group is proud to sponsor BCS IRSG's Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award for 2024 - and we congratulate its recipient, Professor Isabelle Augenstein (Isabelle Augenstein) of University of Copenhagen / CopeNLU, ahead of her #ECIR2025 keynote today! bloom.bg/4jiF2sR

Many congratulations to the Karen Spärck Jones Award winner Isabelle Augenstein! 👏 🎉 The award was presented ECIR2025 by Haiming Liu. We also thank our sponsor Bloomberg UK, represented by Edgar Meij! #ecir2025

I'm so grateful to BCS IRSG Tech At Bloomberg for honouring me with the Karen Spärck Jones Award 🙏 I gave the award lecture on LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric & Contextual Knowledge at #ECIR2025 today (slides: isabelleaugenstein.github.io/slides/2025_EC…) bcs.org/membership-and… #NLProc CopeNLU

Changing my model's tool calling interface from JSON to YAML had surprising side effects. Entropy collapse is one of the biggest issues with GRPO. I've learned that small changes to one's environment can have massive impacts on performance. Surprisingly, changing from JSON to

At today's Netflix Workshop on Personalization, Recommendations & #Search, Edgar Meij, our Head of AI Platforms, is giving an invited talk about evaluation & #GenAI application development in the setting of capital markets financial services (11:30 AM PDT) bloom.bg/3RUCm8A

this is a test, please give this a retweet if you see it on your timeline, I'm testing for reach without a blue tick, thank you my lovelies.💜 #C64 #Commodore

A misunderstood factor in AI adoption in companies is what risk means in organizations I find the question is less "who is accountable if AI gets something wrong?" (often just the user) & more "who is willing to bear the responsibility for adapting our processes & structure"?