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Our long paper " Efficient Multi-Vector Dense Retrieval with Bit Vectors" has been accepted at ECIR2024 This work has been supported by EFRA Project Franco Maria Nardini cosimorulli Rossano Venturini #informationretrieval

Our paper " Towards Transparent and Robust Expert Finding in Community Question Answering Platforms" has been accepted at ECIR2024 in the IR4Good track. This work has been supported by EFRA Project Maddalena Amendola Andrea Passarella @raffaele_perego #informationretrieval

Our paper " DESIRE-ME: Domain-Enhanced Supervised Information REtrieval using Mixture-of-Experts" has been accepted at ECIR2024 in the ECIR 2024 findings. This work has been supported by EFRA Project Authors: Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, @raffaele_perego Nicola Tonellotto

Enhancing Conversational Search with Large Language Models. An article by Guido Rocchietti Franco Maria Nardini cristina muntean on ercim.eu Read the article👇 ercim-news.ercim.eu/en136/special/… #EFRA EFRA Project #HorizonEurope #ResearchImpactEU #AI #foodsafety #data #datamining #research

Today, Andrew Yates Andrew Yates from the University of Amsterdam will give an in-person seminar at ISTI-CNR (@isticnr) entitled "An encoder-centric view of neural retrieval". Thanks Andrew Yates!

Expanding Conversational Search: Commonsense Injection for Query Expansion. Read the article on Medium 👉link.medium.com/I6uhtaY2oJb A work supported by EFRA Project #conversationalSearch #InformationRetrieval #EFRA Guido Rocchietti Franco Maria Nardini cristina muntean

Rewriting Conversational Utterances with Instructed Large Language Models. An article by Guido Rocchietti on Medium 👉 link.medium.com/l7NSCiAKtJb This work is supported by EFRA Project #conversationalSearch #InformationRetrieval #EFRA Franco Maria Nardini cristina muntean

📜Efficient Multi-vector Dense Retrieval with Bit Vectors. A new publication by Franco Maria Nardini cosimorulli Rossano Venturini . Conference proceedings from ECIR2024 This work is supported by EFRA Project #EFRA #InformationRetrieval #IR #ECIR

📜Towards Robust Expert Finding incommunity questionn Answering Platforms. A new publication by Maddalena Amendola, Andrea Passarella @raffaele_perego. Conf proceedings ECIR2024 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… This work is supported by EFRA Project #EFRA #InformationRetrieval #IR #ECIR

📜DESIRE-ME: Domain-Enhanced Supervised Information Retrieval Using Mixture-of-Experts. A new publication by @raffaele_perego Nicola Tonellotto Conference proceedings from ECIR2024 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… This work is supported by EFRA Project #EFRA #InformationRetrieval #IR #ECIR

Best Paper Runner-up award at SIGIR 2025 for our paper "Efficient Inverted Indexes for Approximate Retrieval over Learned Sparse Representations". Congratulation to Franco Maria Nardini @snbruch cosimorulli Rossano Venturini 👉dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36… #InformationRetrieval #SIGIR2024 @IstiCnr

The paper "Efficient Inverted Indexes for Approximate Retrieval over Learned Sparse Representations" was partially supported by EFRA Project - Horizon Europe RIA “Extreme Food Risk Analytics” . dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

How can AI rank docs effectively across distributed, biased datasets? Discover how collaborative Learning to Rank models overcome nonuniform data challenges, boosting search accuracy by up to 17.92%! 🚀 #AI #MachineLearning 👉link.medium.com/Km1kOKI02Ob Work supported by EFRA Project

Why dimensions matter in AI models. Read the article: 👉 link.medium.com/rUouI7sQ0Pb This work has been supported by EFRA Project #InformationRetrieval #InformationSystems #QueryRepresentation

Can Smaller Language Models Compete with ChatGPT? A New Study Has the Answer! medium.com/p/can-smaller-… Work supported by the EFRA Project #ConversationalAI #LLMs #ChatGPT #ConversationalSearch #NLP #ArtificialIntelligence

Scaling sparse embeddings to 138 M vectors—in milliseconds! Discover the Evolution of Sparse Information Retrieval. medium.com/@beatrice.rapi… EFRA Project Franco Maria Nardini #informationretrieval #LargeLanguageModels

Saving Energy Without Wasting Power: The Algorithm That Optimises AI Datacenters medium.com/@beatrice.rapi… This work has been supported by the EFRA Project #SustainableAI #GreenComputing