🎉🎉 I am thrilled to announce that our short paper "Limitations of Automatic Relevance Assessments with Large Language Models for Fair and Reliable Retrieval Evaluation" (w/ Javier Parapar Alvaro Barreiro) got accepted to #SIGIR2025 See you in Padova! 🇮🇹🍝

Happy to be in beautiful Lucca for #ECIR2025! 🇮🇹 The IRLab is excited to enjoy a fantastic programme 📚 in such an inspiring place 🌞🏛️. Today, Jorge, David Otero, & Eliseo Bao will present their work. On Wednesday, it will be the turn of Anxo and paloma

Today Jorge introduced a RAG-based model for keyphrase synonym suggestion in academic search, and David Otero tackled the power of tests in multiple comparisons in IR at ECIR2025 Code for both papers is available! Time for a coffee break ☕

Preprint available! 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2411.13212

Today Eliseo Bao presented MindWell: A Conversational Agent for Professional Depression Screening on Social Media at the #ECIR2025 demo session in Lucca 🇮🇹! Mindwell is a system designed with the help of health professionals to screen users at risk from social media content!

The IRLab finishes its participation at #ECIR2025 with Eliseo Bao demoing a conversational agent for depression screening, Anxo presenting the eRisk 2025 challenges, and paloma sharing her work on distilling efficient & explainable hate speech detectors

Last day of #ECIR2025 listening to very interesting talks of some friends! Anxo paloma Antonio Ferrara

Just now, paloma presented our paper: Decoding Hate: Exploring Language Models' Reactions to Hate Speech at #NAACL2025! 🧠💬 How do LLMs react to toxic content? Proud of her work! #NLP #LLM #HateSpeechDetection 📄 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-lon…

Desde el IRLab queremos agradecer a Enrique Carballo de La Opinión A Coruña por el gran trabajo de difusión y síntesis de nuestros resultados de investigación: laopinioncoruna.es/coruna/2025/05… ¡Gracias por dar visibilidad a la ciencia, esto nos motiva a seguir buscando soluciones!

If you care about multiple comparisons in IR (you should!), you might want to check our work on this problem. Spoiler: Bonferroni is ok, but there are better alternatives. #SIGIR2025 arxiv.org/abs/2501.03930

Had a great time during the poster session today! Many interesting conversations and cool ideas 🚀 #SIGIR2025

Para estos días y estos tiempos que corren sin freno, esto de Marías.

Now at #CLEF2025 UNED! 🚀 Anxo is presenting this year’s Early Risk 2022 Lab overview. Join us at the #eRisk sessions today and tomorrow to discover the great work of our participating teams!

Couldn’t be prouder! 🎉 Anxo has received SEPLN’s Best NLP PhD Thesis Award, a huge honor and well-deserved recognition of his work. 👏🌟

🧠 Un investigador gallego demuestra que la IA puede anticipar problemas de salud mental Vía A3Galicia atres.red/6jeo51

🎉 Very proud of Jorge! Today, he successfully defended his PhD Thesis titled 'Improving the Search Experience on Complex Search Scenarios' 📚 Big thanks to Xi Wang, Patricia M.Rodilla and David E. Losada, for serving on the committee

🧠💬 How does depression "talk" on social media? Eliseo Bao’s work explores depression-related language on Reddit & Twitter using relevance-based models to better understand and detect mental health risks. 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl… w/ Anxo & David Otero

The Special Issue on LLMs as Evaluators in Springer Nature is now open for submissions. We welcome contributions on reliability and bias, human–LLM collaboration, efficiency, and applications across domains such as IR, NLP, healthcare, or social computing. link.springer.com/collections/cj…