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Today I'm presenting our poster (A Static Pruning Study on Sparse Neural Retrievers) at #SIGIR2023! tldr: A) Pruning allows 2x speedup with less than 2% drop in effectiveness or 4x speedup with less than 8% drop. B) In the case of SPLADE, you should both regularize and prune.

In love with the Search Futures workshop ECIR2024 . Lots of interesting questions and ideas discussed so far. Simon Lupart is now sharing his thoughts on generative conversational IR. #ECIR2024

1/4 I'm happy to announce that we at The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam will organize the next edition of the European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) ESSIR on July 1-5 at the University of Amsterdam. Early registration deadline: May 31. More info: 2024.essir.eu

Exciting news. TREC iKAT (TREC Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track) is back! The guidelines are available on our website: trecikat.com In Y2: 1. the collection remains the same; 2. the main task remains the same; 3. we have a new subtask: response-generation-only. Stay tuned for more info!

📣📣 Check out ESSIR 2024's program! We start with Transformers, Foundation Models, and Finetuning, followed by Generative IR, LLMs, (Neural) RecSys, LTR, Evaluation, Explainability, and Fairness. ESSIR features FIDA and a week-long hackathon! 👩🏻‍💻 2024.essir.eu/attending/scho…

Test topics for iKAT 2024 have been released. Looking forward to your submissions! Data: ikat.com/data/

Many are unfamiliar with TREC, so I'll share an explanation from 20+ years of experience both as an organizer and a participant. A good starting point is William Thomson (aka Lord Kelvin): "If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it".

🚀 Excited to share our latest work: "Conversational Gold: Evaluating Personalized Conversational Search Systems using Gold Nuggets", together with Simon Lupart, Leif Azzopardi, Jeff Dalton, and Mohammad Aliannejadi now on arXiv! Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09902