LLaMA is a new *open-source*, high-performance large language model from Meta AI - FAIR. Meta is committed to open research and releases all the models the research community under a GPL v3 license. - Paper: research.facebook.com/publications/l… - Github: github.com/facebookresear…

Resource paper “MMEAD: MS MARCO Entity Annotations and Disambiguations” w/ Chris Kamphuis, Aileen Lin, Siwen Yang, Jimmy Lin, @[email protected] 🕊️🇺🇦, Faegheh Hasibi accepted at #SIGIR2023 github.com/informagi/mmead

Your #sigir2023 full/short paper didn't get in? Please consider the SIGIR-Revise-and-Resubmit option of SIGIR-AP 2023! sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2023/… #sigirap2023 @SIGIR_AP

What's the status of current research on personal knowledge graphs and what's next? We survey existing work and identify future challenges in this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2304.09572

Introducing Landmark Attention! Our method allows #transformers to handle any inference context length, regardless of their training context length. This enables #LLAMA7B to process contexts with 32k+ tokens—just like #GPT4. Read our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2305.16300 🧵👇(1/3)

Exited to share our group presence at #SIGIR2023. Also we five vacancies at all levels of assistant/associate/full prof (f/m) at our institute lnkd.in/e-g4sCC9 Come and talk to us online or in-person. #vacancy

Our tutorial on “Data Augmentation for Conversational AI” with Heydar Souani and @ekanou got accepted at #CIKM2023

Heydar Soudani, Faegheh Hasibi, and @ekanou are presenting the Data Augmentation for Conversational AI tutorial at #CIKM2023 🧵4/6 Site: dataug-convai.github.io Write-up: dataug-convai.github.io/src/DAConvAI_p…

We are delighted to announce "PhD Connect: Navigating the Journey," a 1-hour ACM SIGIR Virtual Forum event for PhD students. Date: Monday, Nov 13, 2023 Time: 10 AM GMT / 11 AM CET / 6 PM CST / 9 PM AEDT Host: Ayah Soufan 🇵🇸 Please sign up here: forms.gle/Z9fq4MhBkwPUNj…

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on machine learning for search systems! 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 We offer a fully funded position, freedom in your research direction, great working environment and very friendly colleagues. You can apply here: ru.nl/en/working-at/… RT is appreciated! 😄

I have a vacancy for a 2-year postdoc in my group, a joint position between Leiden Computer Science and the LUMC Leiden The topic is #NLProc in the Health and Medical Domain. Specifically for the 4D Picture project, but with room for curiosity-driven research. lumc.nl/en/about-lumc/…

Very impressive result by trieu et al Google DeepMind. It takes an incredible amount of ambition and long-term commitment to land a project like this. I highly recommend watching trieu's explainer video about AlphaGeometry: youtube.com/watch?v=TuZhU1…

It's official - #sigirap2024 will be held at Waseda University (Nishiwaseda Campus Building 63 sakailab.com/wp-content/upl… ), Tokyo, Dec 9-12. Please mark your calendar now. SIGIR-AP 2025

Glad to share our accepted #SIGIR2024 full paper "Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search" lead by Hideaki Joko w/ Shubham Chatterjee | শুভম চ্যাটার্জী | 🇮🇳 Jeff Dalton @[email protected] 🕊️🇺🇦 Faegheh Hasibi

Join our tutorial at The Web Conference on `Data Augmentation for Conversational AI' w/Heydar Soudani, Roxan Petcu and @ekanou. This tutorial is based on our recent survey and covers task-oriented, open domain, and information seeking conversation generation. dataug-convai.github.io

Paper “Real World Conversational Entity Linking Requires More Than Zero-Shots” w/ Mohanna Hoveyda @[email protected] 🕊️🇺🇦 Maarten de Rijke and Faegheh Hasibi has been accepted at #ACL2024 findings

Happy to share the revised and extended version of our book "User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems" w/ ChengXiang Zhai arxiv.org/abs/2306.08550 (to appear in print at #sigir2024)

#SIGIRAP2024 deadline is extended to July 10.

I'm incredibly humbled to receive an Early Career Research Award from ACM SIGIR ACM SIGIR announced at #SIGIR2024. It's especially a great honour to be in the same cohort as Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র Faegheh Hasibi Qingyao Ai Johanne and Xiang Wang.