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Delighted to share that our short paper entitled "Improving BERT-based Query-by-Document Retrieval with Multi-Task Optimization" got accepted at #ecir2022 together with Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️, and Leif Azzopardi.

Happy to announce that our NWA-ORC proposal "LESSEN: Low Resource Chat-based Conversational Intelligence" will be funded by NWO Nieuws! nwo.nl/en/researchpro… Great consortium with Maarten de Rijke Arianna Bisazza Faegheh Hasibi @janvanrijn Fatih Turkmen @[email protected] Tibert Verhagen and many others 🙂

First poster session ECIR 2022 with Amin Abolghasemi and sophiaalthammer presenting. dossier-project #ecir2022

Greetings from the DoSSIER team at ECIR 2022 in Stavanger! #ecir2022

Pre-announcement: 14 fully funded positions in conversational intelligence. Join us to work on algorithmic challenges in conversational intelligence, w/diverse team of supervisors around the Netherlands. Expected opening date: Q3/2022. Details at lessen-project.nl (1/17)

I will be hiring two PhD students in #NLProc at Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden Leiden Computer Science in the LESSEN project on conversational agents: - PhD 5, co-supervised by Faegheh Hasibi, on domain adaptation - PhD 11, co-supervised by Frederik Situmeang, on explainability lessen-project.nl I will keep you posted🤗

Presentation by Amin Abolghasemi in #ICTIR2022 #SIGIR2022 on query-by-example retrieval 👏

Excited to share that our full paper entitled "Injecting the BM25 Score as Text Improves BERT-Based Re-rankers" got accepted at #ECIR2023 together with Amin Abolghasemi, gabriella pasi, Wessel Kraaij, and Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️.

Happy to share that our short paper titled "Retrievability Bias Estimation Using Synthetically Generated Queries" got accepted at #CIKM2023 together with Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️, Arian Askari, and Leif Azzopardi.

Working on retrieval with long query/documents? Check out our paper on sentence-level re-ranking, which just got accepted at ACM Transactions on Information Systems ACM TOIS.

Information updated on the flight back to Europe from Singapore: Thrilled to know our paper “Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents” won the outstanding paper award of #EMNLP2023 !

Delighted to share that our paper "Measuring Bias in a Ranked List using Term-based Representations" got accepted at #ECIR2024, together with Leif Azzopardi, Arian Askari, Maarten de Rijke, and Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️.

🎉 Excited to share that our full paper titled "Self-seeding and Multi-intent Self-instructing LLMs for Generating Intent-aware Information-Seeking dialogs" has been accpeted at #NAACL2025 together w/ Roxana Petcu, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Amin Abolghasemi, Evangelos Kanoulas, and @Suzan