🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Extend a huge thank you to our outstanding reviewers at #RecSys2023 for their expertise and dedication!

It’s my great pleasure to be the PC co-Chair of this wonderful big party for both academia and industry researchers and engineers! Inspiring, perspective, friendly and joyful~

Heading to #CIKM2023 in Birmingham, UK! Very excited to connect with many of you. My PC co-chairs, Rodrygo Santos and Min Zhang, and I have put in a lot of effort into the programme. We hope you enjoy it!

#CIKM2023 reviewers collectively wrote 50% more than all of Harry Potter books combined! Kudos to them!

Glad to share the news that TOIS received from ACM: "I am delighted to inform you that, due to the journal's strong performance, the decision has been made to increase the frequency for TOIS from 4 to 6 issues per year beginning with the 2024 volume."

#CIKM2023 First Keynote by Chirag Shah : Challenges for AI-driven Information Asscess, and Ethos for AI.

#CIKM2023 My student @Nicole_He will present our paper "Understanding User Immersion in Online Short Video Interaction", Mon. 23 Oct., Session 3E - Meeting Room 2, at 17:45pm. Join us and dive into the world of user immersion! Paper in the ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

#CIKM2023 Our student @Qian Dong will be presenting our paper “I3Retriever: Incorporating Implicit Interaction in Pre-trained Language Models for Passage Retrieval”, Mon. 23 Oct, Session 1H- Ashtead 3, at 11:00am ​Paper at ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

#CIKM2023 Our THUIR student Bulou Liu will present our paper “Leveraging Event Schema to Ask Clarifying Questions for Conversational Legal Case Retrieval”, Wed. 25 Oct., Session 8C - Dialogue Systems - Belmont 2 , at 2:45pm Paper in the DL: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

A huge thanks to our distinguished reviewers! #CIKM2023

Late message: It's my great pleasure to work with Mounia Lalmas and Rodrygo Santos as the PC co-chairs, together with GCs Ingo Frommholz @[email protected], Frank T. Hopfgartner, Mark Lee, and Michael Oakes. We tried our best and made great efforts to make it and enjoyed a wonderful time at #CIKM2023. See you in 2024

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

It is truly inspiring to engage in discussions with professors from Philosophy, Psychology, History, Art, and Literature. Attending the “Technology and Life: Reflection across Disciplines” conference at the University of Macau.

We're working on a Survey on User Experience with Large Language Models 🕰️ 14 questions, takes around 5-10 minutes. 🟢 It does not record your personal information; all responses are only used for overall analysis. ➡️ Welcome to participate: wjx.cn/vm/eUgtfJq.asp… #survey

We THUIR_lab are honored to receive the Test-of-Time Award from #SIGIR2024! Thank you Yongfeng Zhang，Guokun, colleagues Yiqun, Prof Ma, and collaborators Prof. Yi Zhang! Let’s keep going on Explainable Recommendation!

Congratulations to our students and faculties from THUIR_lab , #DCST , Tsinghua Uni. for winning #sigir24 Best Paper Award! Proud of you!

The deadline of the TOIS Special Section on "Causality Representation Learning in LLM-Driven Recommender Systems" has been extended to Sep. 30, 2024. Are you ready to submit?

Please help join us with A Survey on User Fitness and Exercise Pref.: forms.gle/iNxJXykeyx2CwH… 🕰 The survey takes approximately 5 min. 🟢 Your responses are anonymous and will only be used for overall analysis. It is a pre-study of the fitness recom research. Thank you!

It is just so sad that the #NeurIPS2024 main conference ended with such a racist remark by a faculty when talking about ethics. How ironic! I also want to commend the Chinese student who spoke up right on spot. She was respectful, decent, and courageous. Her response was

#NeurIPS Shame on the offensive slides, which is obvious by design. Shame on the speaker’s response during the QA. We DO teach moral and values at school. Taking the personal racism into the academic conference is really harmful to the whole community.