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🚨 Call for #CUI2025 Papers is LIVE! 🚨 📅 Full Papers: Due 20 Feb 2025 📅 Short Papers & Works-in-Progress: Due 10 Apr 2025 📅 Provocations: Due 10 Apr 2025 📂 PCS is open for submissions! 💡 Find detailed info here: cui.acm.org/2025/ Ready, set, submit—let’s go!

"Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking?" presented by Weronika Łajewska w/Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com Krisztian Balog and Johanne at #SIGIRAP2024 🇯🇵 🔗doi.acm.org/?doi=3673791.3…, #convsearch #sigirap24

I am providing a keynote at the #SIGIRAP2024 workshop on user modelling in conversational information retrieval (um-cir.github.io) in Tokyo 🏯🇯🇵. I will look into the future of conversational information-seeking. RMIT Centre for Info Discovery & Data Analytics RMIT School of Computing Technologies #conversationalAI

Amazing work by Marwah Alaofi w/ Paul Thomas Falk Scholer and Mark Sanderson at #SIGIRAP2024 🇯🇵

Hohoho! 🎅🏼🎄 Our book chapter “Adapting Generative Information Retrieval Systems to Users, Tasks, and Scenarios” is now online! w/ Johanne Soho Tv RMIT School of Computing Technologies @AdmsCentre #GenIR #GenAI link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

New year, new insights! 🎉 Our book chapter "Adapting Generative Information Retrieval Systems to Users, Tasks, and Scenarios" is now online! w/ Johanne Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com Soho Tv RMIT School of Computing Technologies RMIT University #GenIR #GenAI link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

📣 📣 The #sigir2025 call for resource & reproducibility papers is out at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-res-repro… Deadlines: - Abstract: Feb 4, 2025 - Paper: Feb 18, 2025 - Notification: Apr 4, 2025 More info? Ask Timo Breuer, Ian Soboroff | [email protected], and Johanne at [email protected]

All the call for paper details have been posted. Great tracks. Superb keynote speakers. We're looking forward to your submissions. sigir2025.dei.unipd.it #sigir #sigir2025

☠️Search is dead… or isn't it? 📢Call for Proposals: Second Search Futures Workshop ECIR2025! #IR is transforming with #AI & evolving research paradigms. Let's shape the future of search! searchfutures.github.io w/Charlie Clarke Adam Roegiest Ian Soboroff | [email protected] Johanne Zhaochun Ren

"Multi-stage Large Language Model Pipelines Can Outperform GPT-4o in Relevance Assessment" w/Julian Schnabel Danula Hettiachchi Soho Tv accepted at #webconf2025! 😱🌟 We present an LLM-based pipeline that boosts relevance assessment accuracy through modular classification. #SIGIR2025

The paper "Multi-stage Large Language Model Pipelines Can Outperform GPT-4o in Relevance Assessment" accepted at the The Web Conference is online 👉🏻johannetrippas.com/papers/schnabe… #webconf2025 #www2025 #sigir2025 #LLMs

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!

🎨 #CUI2025's 🌟 NEW 🌟 INTERACTIVITY & CREATIVITY track invites interactive demos, creative installations, and artistic expressions on Conversational User Interfaces. Time to get making! 🗓️ Due: 10 April 2025 (2 MONTHS AWAY!) 🔗 Details: cui.acm.org/2025/submit/In… #CfP #CUI #HCI

Full two days of workshops, tutorials, and DC tomorrow and Friday. 📍Building 16 (Storey Hall) - RMIT University maps.app.goo.gl/MinG2Fy9kwmoUs… 🕘 9am kick off #chiir2025 ACM CHIIR 2025 Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com Prof/Dr Lisa M Given, FASSA 🇨🇦🇦🇺 KAIXIN JI

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

Today Oleg Zendel, Adam Roegiest and Johanne presented a tutorial on #LLMs and interactive information retrieval at ACM CHIIR 2025. 🎉💻 Thanks everyone for attending, playing along with the notebooks, and being an amazing audience. 👌 #chiir2025 RMIT School of Computing Technologies #sigir2025

🎉 CHIIR 2025 has officially concluded. Huge thanks to organising teams, keynote speakers, presenters, volunteers, and everyone who joined us — see you next year in Seattle, Chirag Shah Ryen White ! 👋 George Buchanan Haiming Liu A/Prof. Dana McKay Mark Sanderson Johanne Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com

We're kicking off the Search Futures workshop ECIR2025. Starting with a talk on combining search and recommendation by Jujia Zhao, Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️

The pre-print of our #SIGIR2025 SIGIR 2025 short paper on 'Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data' is now available: damianospina.com/publication/he… w/ Jiaman He Johanne A/Prof. Dana McKay Zikang Leng RMIT School of Computing Technologies Georgia Tech

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