Another fun #SIGIR2024 paper with Johanne, Sara Al Lawati, and Luke Gallagher with some early insights into how users interact with LLM-based assistants in natural environments (their own devices/homes). Stay tuned...

Some recent press about our #EMNLP2023 paper on evaluating ChatGPT behaviour on health questions, with Guido Zuccon AEHRC UQ School of EECS

A #sustainability effort at #sigir2024 (not #sigirap2024): The ReNeuIR Workshop @ SIGIR 2025 is organizing a shared task focusing on the efficiency of IR systems. The shared task requires minimal effort. Wrap your IR system in a Docker image and submit it. More info at reneuir.org

ReNeuIR Workshop @ SIGIR 2025 is back at SIGIR 2025 » Shared task on efficient neural IR: reneuir.org/shared_task.ht…… » Call for papers: reneuir.org/cfp.html Come participate/present/network with a growing IR research sub-community excited about efficient neural retrieval. #SIGIR2024

Rushing on your ReNeuIR Workshop @ SIGIR 2025 submissions? 📝 We have extended the deadline for another week! New deadline is May 22nd AoE. #SIGIR2024 ⏱️ reneuir.org/cfp.html

Another fun collaboration with Johanne and Luke; this time, we explored what users ask conversational search systems "in the wild" and observe a real lack of complex information seeking behaviour. Stay tuned...

On Thursday, we're running the #reneuir workshop at #sigir2024. The workshop will have two amazing keynote speakers (Zhuyun Dai and Qi Chen) as well as a number of original and invited talks, plus a shared poster session. Please come along!

Now the dense retrieval session at #sigir2024 starts with our paper Leveraging LLMs for unsupervised dense retrieval selection ielab , presented by Shengyao Zhuang

Lots of mentions of work from UQ UQ School of EECS ielab CSIRO AEHRC (Shengyao Zhuang Joel Mackenzie Guido Zuccon) in the talk by Benjamin Piwowarski at the #SIGIR2024 LLM Day ❤️ thanks Benjamin Piwowarski for the shout out, and the great insights in the talk❤️

Shared Task @ ReNeuIR 2024: lots of retrieval systems benchmarked on the same hardware with several efficiency/effectiveness measures. #SIGIR2024

Zhuyun Dai is the first keynote of the ReNeuIR workshop at #SIGIR2024: "LLM-Powered Retrieval: From Distillation to New Architectures"

Now live at ReNeuIR #SIGIR2024: Maik Fröbe is introducing our Shared Task Initiative to extend IR evaluation toward the efficiency/sustainability of IR systems.

Ever wondered what people really ask conversational assistants? 🤖🗣️ I'll tell you in my #CIKM2024 presentation this afternoon! Room: 120C Time: Wednesday, 13:45 - 15:30 🔗doi.org/10.1145/362767… Dataset github.com/JTrippas/CIRQL Joel Mackenzie RMIT School of Computing Technologies RMIT University #ConvAI

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for short papers sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-short-pap… Share your research in IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Abstracts: Feb 4, 2025 - Short papers: Feb 18, 2025 - Notifications: Apr 4, 2025 Ask Ebrahim Bagheri Faegheh Hasibi Joel Mackenzie at [email protected]

🎉 Excited to share the list of our ielab papers accepted at #SIGIR2025 ACM SIGIR! Topics include efficiency in IR, domain-specific IR (SysRev, podcast), screenshot retrievers, hallucination detection, and more. See you in Padua 🇮🇹! Details coming soon, stay tuned!