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Happy to share our ICTIR2020 paper “Analysing the Effect of Clarifying Questions on Document Ranking in Conversational Search” arxiv.org/abs/2008.03717 with Mohammad Aliannejadi Nikos Voskarides @ekanou

Together with Ida Mele Mohammad Aliannejadi and Nikos Voskarides we are organizing #micros2021 workshop on conversational systems at #ecir2021!!! Looking forward to your paper submissions!

PhD Vacancy: Search and Recommendation Systems that Learn from their Users I am looking for a PhD student to work on the next generation of ranking systems. Fully funded position, great working environment, very friendly colleagues! RT appreciated :) ru.nl/english/workin…

@micros2021 is happy to announce the first confirmed keynote: Claudia Hauff 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇩🇪 🇳🇱! Thanks for agreeing to be such an important part of our workshop. Everyone else, get your papers ready! #conversationalIR #conversationalsearch #ecir2021 ECIR 2021 #micros2021

Happy that our short paper "A Comparison of Question Rewriting Methods for Conversational Passage Retrieval" (on the TREC Conversational Assistance Track 2019 & 2020 datasets) has been accepted ECIR 2021, w/ Svitlana Vakulenko 🇺🇦, Michael Tu & @shayneRedford. Stay tuned for the preprint and the resources #ecir2021

@micros2021 is announcing a new keynote speaker. @firadl thanks for accepting our invitation! This is shaping up to be a very interesting workshop! 🎉 #conversationalIR #conversationalsearch #conversationalrecsys #convai #conversationalAI #ECIR2021 #micros2021 ECIR 2021

Preprint now available: arxiv.org/abs/2101.07382 Resources: github.com/svakulenk0/cas… TREC Conversational Assistance Track ECIR 2021 #ecir2021 #sigir2021

Congratulations dr Nikos Voskarides on successfully defending your PhD thesis "Supporting Search Engines with Knowledge and Context"!💐 UvA Amsterdam The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam Nikos Voskarides

So much to explore in this thesis by Nikos Voskarides, much of which is focused on "making structured knowledge more accessible to the user by describing and contextualizing [knowledge graph] facts" > Supporting search engines with knowledge and context bit.ly/3ptfFHZ

Credit goes to the designer! instagram.com/evros_design/

Introducing the @micros2021 panelists: Nicholas Belkin, Claudia Hauff, Julia Kiseleva (moderator), Jian-Yun Nie, Filip Radlinski and Hamed Zamani. Join in for an interesting discussion! #ConversationalSystems #conversationalIR #conversationalsearch #ECIR2021 ECIR 2021 #SIGIR2021

The final program for @micros2021 workshop is out: micros2021.github.io/pubs/MICROS_Wo…. Join our workshop, the registration is free! ECIR 2021 🤓 #conversationalIR #conversationalsearch #conversationalrecsys #conversationalAI #ECIR2021 #micros2021 #sigir2021 #cikm2021 #wsdm2021 #kdd2021

Come by for a chat at the poster session tomorrow ECIR 2021 Booth7 2pm CEST! I will present our short paper with Nikos Voskarides Michael Tu Shayne Longpre evaluating SoA question rewriting models for conversational passage ranking on TREC Conversational Assistance Track 2019-20 #ECIR2021 youtu.be/JHuSGvk4vew

Tomorrow at 16:45 CEST, we will host a panel discussion on mixed-initiative conversational systems at the MICROS workshop. Looking forward to the discussion by our amazing panelists: Nick Belkin, Julia Kiseleva, Claudia Hauff 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇩🇪 🇳🇱, Jian-Yun Nie, @firadl and Hamed Zamani

Congratulations to Nikos Voskarides, University of Groningen's Sabrina Sauer, UvA Amsterdam's Maarten de Rijke & Edgar Meij on their paper "News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation" being accepted for #ICTIR2021 (co-located with #SIGIR21)! #NLProc #AI #InformationRetrieval

Happy that our paper "News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation" has been accepted at ICTIR 2024 #ictir2021, w/ Edgar Meij, Sabrina Sauer, & Maarten de Rijke. Stay tuned for the preprint!

Preprint now available: arxiv.org/abs/2106.16053 #ictir2021 #sigir2021

If you submitted #conversationalAI or #conversationalIR papers to #cikm2022, consider participating also in our workshop for a more in-depth chat about your work with our community. micros-workshop.github.io CIKM 2022

Happy to announce that Siva Reddy Siva Reddy will give a keynote at our MICROS @ CIKM2022 ! Stay tuned for more details. #cikm2022

Upcoming AACL 2022 paper "Performance-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Adapting Language Models to Text Classification Tasks" with Nikos Voskarides and Roi Blanco arxiv.org/abs/2210.12022 Amazon Science 1/3