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📢Due to many requests, we have EXTENDED the doctoral consortium (DC) abstract and paper deadlines by ‼️one week‼️ DC abstract submission: *EXTENDED TO Nov. 10, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE)* DC paper submission: *EXTENDED TO Nov. 17, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE)*

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>

Open post-doctoral researcher position in Computational Social Science TU München - please share the information! #CSS More info here: hfp.tum.de/fileadmin/w00c…

Wer immer schon mal mehr über das Phänomen "#Doxing" wissen wollte, für den/die hat die Fachgruppe "Privacy-Enhancing Technologies" #PET der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. da etwas vorbereitet. Einfach anmelden und dazukommen (Vortrag wird auf deutsch sein): fg-pet.gi.de/veranstaltung/…

🎮Are you a PhD student with focus on game/play? Would you like to discuss your research with other students and senior researchers? Apply to #FDG 2025 doctoral consortium. @svencharleer and me are looking forward to your submissions, Deadline: 23 Jan - fdg2025.org/authorinformat…

Habemus #Dagstuhl Report! #Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. doi.org/10.4230/DagRep… Edited by Alan Said , @eva_zangerle, and yours truly - and written by many, many brilliant minds in our #recsys community. Too many to mention (pic here dagstuhl.de/24211) Schloss Dagstuhl

Sharing with permission: The daughter of one of our colleagues in the SIGIR community passed away from an epileptic seizure. If you'd like to support -- he is now organizing a donation to help provide support to epilepsy patients and their loved ones: epilepsie.digicollect.nl/maarten-de-rij…

📣 📣 #sigir2025 doctoral consortium, discuss with seniors sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-doctoral-… Deadlines: - Submission: Feb 27, 2025 - Notifications: Apr 4, 2025 - DC: Jul 13, 2025 More info? Ask Michael Bendersky, Behrooz Mansouri, and Isabelle Moulinier at [email protected].

Are you eager to contribute to the success of SIGIR 2025? You can self-nominate yourself for becoming a PC member for #sigir2025 at forms.gle/MdJrM8VsGUeHLU… We will process the self-nominations at the time of reviewer invitations in EasyChair; do not expect an immediate reply

What an honor! I have been introduced as a LEA Role Model to the "Let's empower Austria" initiative. letsempoweraustria.at/role-model/chr… I hope it will be an inspiration!

Call for speakers - It is the last round (deadline 31 March 2025). We need more speakers with focus on #UX and #GUR :) but also academics who would like to share their research with the game industry. #game #industry #conference #speaker

So viele spannende Dinge zu #Privatsphäre, #Datenschutz und #Privacy an der Uni #Salzburg! Wir bringen sie zusammen - in einer öffentlichen Ringvorlesung "Privatsphäre in der digitalen Welt". Feierabendfreundlich ab dem 12.03. alle zwei Wochen jeweils Mi. um 17:00. Mehr Infos ⤵️

🤙Calling all RecSys Doctoral students: please remember to submit your work to the Doctoral Symposium call, which ends on June 3! More details: recsys.acm.org/recsys25/call/… #RecSys2025

I'm very much looking forward to the #Sim4IA workshop at #SIGIR2025! It will be a pleasure, giving my keynote address with the title "From toy models to tactics: What user simulation is good for" Consider participating in the micro shared task! Great initiative :-)

SIGIR Program is now online sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/overall-progra… SIGIR 2025 ACM SIGIR #sigir2025

🚨 New dataset + paper! We analyzed 21,000+ Billboard Hot 100 songs (1958–2022) using 58 musicological attributes from expert annotations (Music Genome Project 🎶). Discover how pop music evolved → 📄doi.org/10.5334/tismir… 📂zenodo.org/records/153720… #MIR #MusicData #AIMusic

The #CfP for #MuRS2025 is out! MuRS2025: 3rd Music Recommender Systems Workshop sites.google.com/view/murs-2025… Looking forward to your submissions! Happy to collaborate again w/ Lorenzo Porcaro and andres ferraro #RecSys2025 #RecSys #music #MIR #GenAI