Just a few more days to submit an abstract for our Workshop on LLMs and Access to Political Information at @ucddublin.bsky.social!
All the information is here:
www.parliview.org/workshop.html
@insightcentre.bsky.social
#AI #ComputationalSocialScience #InformationRetrieval #HCI #FairAI
#UKPLab #NLP #NLProc #InformationRetrieval #DenseRetrieval #MultiHop #FactChecking #QuestionAnswering #RAG @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social
My little OMINO UK tour is coming to an end. It was a great opportunity to discuss our work on information overload and academic information access with friends, project partners and former colleagues!
#InformationOverload #FakeScience #InformationRetrieval
Big congratulations to all authors! 🚀
#ICLR2026 #MachineLearning #AIResearch #RepresentationLearning #InformationRetrieval #DenseRetrieval #SelfSupervisedLearning #LanguageModels #NLP #UKPLab #ICLR2026
@cmu.edu @tencent.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social @microsoft.com
🚨 Early Bird Registration Ends Today! 🚨
The ECIR Conference early bird registration deadline is TODAY.
If you’ve been planning to attend, this is your chance to secure your spot at the best rate.
👉 If you’re planning to attend, don’t forget to register.
lnkd.in/ejrnYwDw
#ECIR #InformationRetrieval
Core Information Retrieval Forum will be taking place on Thursday 26th January in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Do think about attending if you work in information retrieval, data mining or evidence synthesis. #CILIP #academic #universities #librarians #informationretrieval
The PDF of the full #IRRJ issue, Volume 1 Number 2 of December 2025 is now available online at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no2 #InformationRetrieval
In the second issue of #IRRJ, Paul Kantor writes the editorial, arguing for a more critical adoption of generative AI in information retrieval. He puts his concerns under three distinct headings: consistency, confidence, and completeness. #GenAI, #GenerativeAI, #InformationRetrieval […]
Our demo paper
Markos Dimitsas and Jochen L. Leidner (2026)
"LectureChat: Hybrid RAG over Wikipedia and Multilingual Lectures"
was accepted for presentation at ECIR 2026 in Delft. See you all there in March/April!
#informationretrieval #IR #RAG #AI #CSEDU #education #multimodal #VoLLKI
Published at #IRRJ: "Emancipatory Information Retrieval" by Bhaskar Mitra. #InformationRetrieval, #Society, #EmancipatoryPraxis, #TechnologyAndPower
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.24531
Karen Spärck Jones: The Hidden Mathematician Behind Every Search
voxmeditantis.com/2025/12/15/k...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #InformationRetrieval #ComputationalLinguistics #NaturalLanguageProcessing
🎖️ Call for Nominations – The Keith van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award 2026
Read more about the award, nomination process, and find the form to submit your nominations here: lnkd.in/emecdsXm
#ECIR2026 #InformationRetrieval #Awards #ResearchExcellence
ecir2026.eu/calls/keith-...
Published at #IRRJ: "Exploring Embedding Interpretability by Correspondences Between Topic Models and Text Embeddings" by Meng Yuan, Lida Rashidi, and Justin Zobel. #InformationRetrieval, #EmbeddingInterpretability, #Explanability, #TopicModelling
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23703
🔗 Yue’s Webpage: fengyue-leah.github.io
@tuda.bsky.social - @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social
#UKPLab #NLP #InformationRetrieval #LargeLanguageModels #AIResearch #Multimodality #PeerReview #AISafety #TrustworthyAI
Published at #IRRJ: "An Eigensystem for Topic Term Weighting yields Fair and Effective Document Rankings" by Massimo Melucci. #InformationRetrieval, #GroupFairness, #ProbabilityRankingPrinciple, #Eigensystem
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23480
The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up
#Tech #AI #ChatGPT #Technology #SearchTrends #Google #YouTube #DigitalShift #TechHabits #AIChatbots #Media #Innovation #Search #Alexa #InformationRetrieval #The14
the-14.com/the-chatgpt-...
How Search Engines Actually Answer Your Questions #Technology #Internet #SearchEngines #InformationRetrieval #TechEducation
Und wir haben am @ibi-hu.bsky.social am Lehrstuhl #InformationRetrieval (wo ich auch bin) auch eine tolle Stelle ausgeschrieben:
haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
100% für 2 Jahre als WiMi im Projekt „SoNAR - Social Network Analysis and related Research“.
#Jobs #JobsInAcademia
Crowd of researchers at EMNLP 2025, exchanging ideas and research results.
📸 Snapshots from last week’s EMNLP 2025 — an inspiring week of research, collaboration, and conversations!
Proud of our researchers for contributing to such a vibrant and innovative NLP community.
#EMNLP2025 #AIResearch #NLProc #HealthNLP #InformationRetrieval #Interpretability
Our lab's papers at #EMNLP2025, spanning themes of #Interpretability, #Transparency, #Explainability, #Multilinguality, and #InformationRetrieval.
Tim Menzner and I won best poster hon. mention at KDIR'25 in Marbella last week for our BiasRank paper.
www.hs-coburg.de/news/best-po... (in German)
#informationretrieval #bias #newssearch
Published at #IRRJ: "Effectiveness of In-Context Learning for Due Diligence: A Reproducibility Study of Identifying Passages for Due Diligence by Madhukar Dwivedi and Jaap Kamps. #InformationRetrieval, #LegalSearch, #DueDiligence, #PassageRetrieval
https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.22626
#ThrowbackThursday to Prof. Carsten Eickhoff’s CIIR Talk on “Uncertainty in Information Retrieval,” exploring how uncertainty estimation can reveal hidden biases in search engines and improve #fairness.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eW...
#InformationRetrieval #HealthNLP #IR
📢 We're also now on LinkedIn!
Follow the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group for updates on IR research, @irglasgow.bsky.social activities, events, and collaborations:
🔗 linkedin.com/company/glasgow-information-retrieval-group
#InformationRetrieval #IR #AI #recsys #RecommenderSystems #Glasgow
Retrieval Outperforms Generation for Query Variants in QPP
Retrieval-based query variants boost query performance prediction, beating generation-based methods by about 20% on neural rankers such as MonoT5 in TREC DL'19 and DL'20 tests. Read more: getnews.me/retrieval-outperforms-ge... #qpp #informationretrieval
From RAG → agentic systems in New York: THINK:SEARCH:THINK loops, tool use for real-time data, self-reflection, and robust error handling. We shipped a state-machine scaffold for reliable, long-form research reports. Big shoutout to Apurva Misra of Sentick!
#InformationRetrieval #AIResearch #RAG
Tetun Text Retrieval Resources Enhance Search Efficiency
Researchers released Labadain‑Stopwords (160 stopwords) and Labadain‑Stemmer (three variants). Using cleaned titles, BM25 got a 31.37% efficiency gain and +9.40% MAP@10. Read more: getnews.me/tetun-text-retrieval-res... #tetun #informationretrieval
5 thumbnails on a globe. A speaker, an engineer, a woman looking out of a window, a man with long curly hairs, a girl at an early computer
Chronoscope World :: homonyms for »Goldberg« — It’s not really an issue yet, is it?
#ChronoMedia link mprove.de/chrono3d?ll=...
#informationretrieval #informationarchitecture #geoIxD
say I take N multinomial samples x1..xN from two histograms p1 and p2, and have a function X -> Bool that evaluates some sample fitness.There could be many "right" samples.
Is it sensible to compare p1 with p2 by the MRR of the results of f on X?
#informationretrieval #ranking #search #generative
