We are hosting three tasks this year in TREC-2024:
(i) Retrieval (R)
(ii) Augmented Generation (AG)
(iii) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Fun fact: how to potty train your toddlers? 💩

Toddlers' bathroom habits might hold the key ... #RAG
trec-rag.github.io/annoucements/2…

Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) is coming to Leiden this year! Jointly organized on August 30 by 📚🧠🗣LUCL, Leiden Computer Science and Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities.

We invite everyone to submit an abstract and present a poster.

➡️ clin34.leidenuniv.nl #NLProc #CLIN34

The Gates Foundation will no longer pay for article-processing charges and is mandating all its funded research to post preprints of any studies stemming from its funding. My latest for C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News): cen.acs.org/policy/publish… Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Richard Sever

SIGIR VF Presents 'Quantum Natural Language Processing' Join us to learn about practical applications of Quantum Methods in IR/NLP 👉REGISTER:  forms.gle/BSdaLTrceiiwKf…

(Free of Charge) Negar Arabzadeh Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ ACM SIGIR SIGIR 2024 Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র L. Dietz @[email protected] @[email protected] Charlie Clarke Leo Boytsov

And now some advertisement. If you’re using Apple Mail under Sonoma and have many mailboxes, MsgFiler is a productivity lifesaver. If you used tools like Nostalgy on Thunderbird before, you understand what I mean. I’m pleased to see MsgFiler is alive and kicking!

Some useful advice. Always happy to collaborate.

A rather uncomfortable read.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

All done! It's a wrap from #ecir2024 . We've had a brilliant 5 days with loads of great talks, discussions, and social events.

Thanks to everyone that made #ecir2024 such a great success! We hope you all enjoyed Glasgow. Looking forward to seeing you again in Lucca for #ecir2025

We now pass on the baton to #ecir2025 which will take place in Lucca, Italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 Follow ECIR2025 for all of the updates. We look forward to a great conference! 🎉 #ecir2024

📢📢 Check out the call for applied research papers!

Back home from a great and intense week in my favourite British city Glasgow. Had an exciting BIR workshop and the whole #ECIR2024 was a great event. Met so many friends and interesting people. It was very well organised with great food. Well done, ECIR2024!

ECIR2024 Please speak to Haiming Liu in case you‘d like to nominate someone. #ecir2024 #ecir2025

The BCS IRSG is calling for nominations to the Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award. Nominations open in May and close in September 2024. Award will be presented at the next #ecir2025 conference #ecir2024

ECIR2024 .Nicola Tonellotto giving insights about tools, datasets, resources used and shared by the community in preparing submissions for #ecir2024 ECIR2024 And important estimates about power consumption and carbon footprint of an ECIR submission: 750 houses for 1 day and half ton of CO2

14th BIR Workshop: Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval. Intro slides of the workshop today.
Ingo Frommholz @[email protected] Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
ECIR2024 #ecir2024 #bir2024

Attending #ECIR2024 in Glasgow? Join us on Sunday at our Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshop. We have a keynote by Hong Zhou and lots of other exciting talks. You'll also meet Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ and Philipp Mayr.

sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/bi….

ECIR2024 Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩

Want to work with us on DS/IR/NLP/AI/etc? Join us University of Wolverhampton:

Reader-DS/AI - jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/reader…
jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/reader…
SL in CS - jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior…
SL in DS/AI - jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior…
SL in Cybersec – jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior…
L in CS - jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/lectur…

#Jobs

🔥EACL SRW 2024 is starting in few hours!

Check out our website for the full program and the panel session:
sites.google.com/view/eacl2024s…

See you soon in the Reading Room!

#EACL2024 eaclmeeting

Our article about information overload was referenced in German media by scinexx.de. The original article can be found here: nature.com/articles/s4156…

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Unser Artikel über Information Overload wurden von scinexx.de aufgegriffen. Den Originalartikel kann man hier lesen: nature.com/articles/s4156…

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