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Why you shouldn’t truncate the y-axis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleadin…

Harvard and Google release a dataset of 1M public domain books for AI training. techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/har… Interesting to see what kind of system would result from this data

Microsoft Translator group is looking for a Ph.D. student #intern this summer to work with us in Redmond on machine translation. Reach out if you are interested :) Link in the 🧵⤵️

The real question for training LLM web agents is not whether you can train them to follow instructions with supervised/imitation data, but whether they can learn to operate new websites, as people do all the time.

Had amazing discussions with colleagues and friends at #swirl2025 about the future of IR in beautiful Torquay. Stay tuned for the public report coming soon!

#ICTIR2025 informs deadlines. - submission due: April 24 - notification: June 5 ictir2025.cs.umass.edu conferencelist.info/upcoming/

Soaking up (possibly) the last bit of summer this weekend - while wrapping up my reviews!

📢 Call for Papers: LLM4EVAL @ SIGIR '25 - The 3rd Workshop on Large Language Models for Evaluation in IR! SIGIR 2025 🗓️ Submission: April 23, 2025 (AoE) 🔗 Full CFP: llm4eval.github.io/SIGIR2025/cfp/ 🌐 Workshop: llm4eval.github.io/SIGIR2025/

We are recruiting a postdoc at Glasgow IR Group to work on the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM) RAI UK project on Responsible AI. phawm.org Deadline: 26th March jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research-a…

Fantastic keynote by Kathy Brennan at #CHIIR2025! Insightful points on UI design at Google moving beyond the 'average user' to truly personalize experiences. Thought-provoking and inspiring

Our tutorial with Oleg Zendel, Adam Roegiest and Johanne "Applying Large Language Models to Interactive Information Retrieval: A Practical Exploration" Is interactive, bring your computer 💻 💻 Preferably, but 🖥️ will be fine 😁😉 #chiir2025 ACM CHIIR 2025

Although it might not look like it on the photo (thanks, Johanne… 😅), I had a fantastic time presenting my first tutorial at #CHIIR2025!

New Anthropic research: Tracing the thoughts of a large language model. We built a "microscope" to inspect what happens inside AI models and use it to understand Claude’s (often complex and surprising) internal mechanisms.

😳⬇️👏🏾 A surgeon in Shanghai removed a lung tumor from a patient 5,000km away, using a remotely controlled #robot. This marks a major leap for remote surgery and the future of #healthcare. #tech #Innovation #Robotics #technews 📹 Tansu Yegen

RAG has never been this exciting...! You should learn about Search-R1! I anticipate that Search-R1 will have a significant impact on the field. See the following thread and this post on LinkedIn (and its comments): linkedin.com/posts/hamedzam…

The official website for SIGIR-AP 2025 is now live! Please visit: sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2025. This year, we are also inviting industry papers. We also encourage authors of unsuccessful SIGIR submissions to consider submitting to SIGIR-AP. We look forward to seeing you in Xi'an!

📢 Deadline extended! Submit to #LLM4Eval @ #SIGIR2025 by April 30 (AoE) We welcome work on LLM-based evaluation, including: 🧠 beyond query-doc 🗣️ simulating users 🧪 synthetic eval data 🔗 llm4eval.github.io/SIGIR2025/cfp/ #CFP #IR #LLMs #SIGIR2025

Happy #HummusDay! Chickpeas, tahini, lemon & olive oil = creamy, dreamy superfood. Packed with plant protein & fiber - perfect as a dip or the main event. I wonder if we have any places that make their own around Melbourne #HealthyEating #MiddleEasternFood

Are Google and other search engines getting worse, or do we need to rethink how we search? I really enjoyed chatting about this in a recent interview with Johanne and Ashwin Nagappa check out the article! 🔗 abc.net.au/news/science/2… RMIT School of Computing Technologies #ADMS RMIT University

An interesting claim