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"Classifying Term Variants in Query Formulation" full paper accepted at #SIGIR2025. Delighted for our student Nuha Abu Onq on getting her first full SIGIR paper accepted, co-authored with Falk Scholer. RMIT School of Computing Technologies

We have an open research scientist position in our lab at Spotify, Personalization ! The areas of expertise are: Information Retrieval, Recommendation System, Language Technologies, Foundational Models, Generative AI Technologies, and Machine Learning. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/research-…

LLMs are reshaping how we evaluate ranked lists, conversations, and even simulate users. At #LLM4Eval @ #SIGIR2025, we’re spotlighting 3 special themes: 🧠 Beyond query-doc 🗣️ Simulating users 🧪 Synthesizing evaluation data 👇 Curious? Read on & submit by April 23! #LLMs #IR

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!

I giggle every time I see this! 😂 #phdlife #phdchat

#دعوة_للمشاركة يسرنا دعوتكم للمشاركة في العدد الخاص بعنوان: "تطوير نماذج اللغة العربية: الموارد، والتقييم، والتطبيقات في عصر النماذج اللغوية الكبيرة Advancing Arabic Language Models: Resources, Evaluation, and Applications in the Era of Large Language Models" والذي سيُنشر ضمن

(comic) Great expectations

نمو مرعب في بوستات Reddit التي تستخدم ال em dash أو — مما يدل على أنها مكتوبة بالذكاء الاصطناعي.. طبعا لاحظت المعدل في لنكدان أسوأ بصراحة ما شعورك إذا شخص استخدم ChatGPT لكتابة البوست كاملاً بدون تحرير؟ تلاقي البوست بعلامات تحرير ال markdown مثل ال *العناوين* والايموجي ✅

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

Looking forward to Hugh Kearns’s thesis completion masterclass hosted by RMIT University tomorrow. I’ve read some of his books on succeeding in the PhD while staying well, and they’ve been incredibly helpful: ithinkwell.com.au/bookshop. Hoping this class gives me the final push to finish!

I really enjoyed reading this paper (again)! Under human judgments, oracle runs (perfect or semi-perfect manual runs) outperform LLM re-rankers. But with LLM judgments, this is reversed. LLMs are known to be much more positive than humans, except toward oracle runs, apparently,

🤯NeurIPS 2025 might break records as the most submitted-to academic conference ever. One of our submission IDs is already ~23,000 — final count could hit 30,000. Absolute madness. #NeurIPS2025 #AI

NeurIPS has a record-breaking number of 25,000 submissions this year already. It's crazy but not entirely unexpected. Here is the scaling over the years, with a conservative projection. How do we even run a conference and review at this massive scale?

#sigir25 proceedings are out: dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding…

At #ICTIR25? Check out our poster on simulating user queries to expand standard TREC queries in test collections! We use LLMs to generate query variants – offering alternative perspectives on system evaluation and potentially enabling the development of variant-aware systems. w/

This winning #SIGIR25 paper shows that LLMs do memorise the MovieLens dataset – e.g., recovering movie titles from IDs, and user attributes and interactions from their IDs. They demonstrate that their performance correlates with memorisation rather than actual learning!