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(1/2) 📢 SEA in September! Only 3 days left to this special edition of SEA with great line of speakers from industry and academia. 🖋️Sign up here: meetup.com/sea-search-eng…

📢SEA in October - Efficiency in neural IR 🗓️ Oct 27th, 17:00 CET, in-person at Lab42 or online✍️ Sing up now! Speakers: -Carlos Lassance (Naverlabs) Carlos Lassance -Jurek Leonhardt (TU Delft) Jurek Leonhardt More info, and registration link: meetup.com/sea-search-eng… The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam

🎉I'm excited to share that our paper titled "Let the LLMs Talk: Simulating Human-to-Human Conversational QA via Zero-Shot LLM-to-LLM Interactions" together with Mohammad Aliannejadi, @YifeiYuan6, and @ekanou has been accepted to #WSDM2024.🎉

Excited to share that our participation in TREC Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track 2023 ranked 1st! We submitted Retrieve-the-Generate and Generate-then-Retrieve runs,combining #LLMs & #search for conversational search. joint work with Zahra Abbasiantaeb davidrau Chuan Meng Hossein A. (Saeed) Rahmani Mohammad Aliannejadi

Maarten de Rijke is the winner of the first Keith van Rijsbergen Award! ECIR2024 #ecir2024

Another perk of attending #ECIR2024, getting to finally see some of your coauthors in person! Zahra Abbasiantaeb Emiliana Murgia Mohammad Aliannejadi

Maarten de Rijke Maarten de Rijke is giving a keynote on transparency and explainability, following his recognition as the recipient of the Keith van Rijsbergen Award! ECIR2024 The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam #ECIR2024

🎉 I’m happy to announce that our resource paper “iKAT: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants.” got accepted at #SIGIR2024! This is a joint work with Mohammad Aliannejadi, Shubham Chatterjee | শুভম চ্যাটার্জী | 🇮🇳, Leif Azzopardi, and Jeff Dalton.

+ "Are you the iKAT organizer?" - "Yes, are you a participant?" A great surprise earlier today at #ECIR2024 to meet one of the successful teams of iKAT TREC Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track . ECIR2024

🚀 Can we rely on LLMs’ internal knowledge to answer complex questions? 🚀 In our recent work with Mohammad Aliannejadi, we propose a method for generating multiple queries to cover different aspects of the user’s information needs.  The paper is available: arxiv.org/abs/2403.19302

Search Engines Amsterdam 🌊 is back! Next Friday, we host two great talks by Arthur Câmara and Arian Askari on using LLMs for data augmentation in IR. Register now and join us next week: meetup.com/de-DE/sea-sear…

SEA 🌊 is back! Join us on Friday, May 17th, when Olivier Jeunen takes a critical look at evaluating recommender systems using nDCG! Sign up here 👉: meetup.com/de-DE/sea-sear…

In our recent paper, we ask ourselves, "Can We Use Large Language Models to Fill Relevance Judgment Holes?" We simulate a more realistic leave-one-model-out scenario, filling the holes of a new IR model with varying no. of judgment holes. But can we? 📰 arxiv.org/abs/2405.05600

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/

Listening to Zahra Abbasiantaeb presenting our work on filling assessment holes using LLMs at the EMTCIR workshop at #sigirap2024. Zahra is also one of the two evaluation experts of the workshop 🔥!

🎉 Thrilled to announce that our paper, "Improving the Reusability of Conversational Search Test Collections", with Chuan Meng, Leif Azzopardi, and Mohammad Aliannejadi has been accepted at #ECIR2025! Huge thanks to my co-authors for making this possible!

🚀 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