🚀 Excited to share our latest work: "Conversational Gold: Evaluating Personalized Conversational Search Systems using Gold Nuggets", together with @simon_lupart, @leifos, @JeffD, and @maliannejadi now on arXiv! Check out the paper here:

🎉 Thrilled to announce that our paper, "Improving the Reusability of Conversational Search Test Collections", with @ChuanMg, @leifos, and @maliannejadi has been accepted at #ECIR2025! Huge thanks to my co-authors for making this possible!

Listening to @z_abbasiantaeb presenting our work on filling assessment holes using LLMs at the EMTCIR workshop at #sigirap2024. Zahra is also one of the two evaluation experts of the workshop 🔥!

Test topics for iKAT 2024 have been released. Looking forward to your submissions! Data:

📣📣 Check out ESSIR 2024's program! We start with Transformers, Foundation Models, and Finetuning, followed by Generative IR, LLMs, (Neural) RecSys, LTR, Evaluation, Explainability, and Fairness. ESSIR features FIDA and a week-long hackathon! 👩🏻‍💻 https://t.co/o7SUiOgwIy

In our recent paper, we ask ourselves, "Can We Use Large Language Models to Fill Relevance Judgment Holes?" We simulate a more realistic leave-one-model-out scenario, filling the holes of a new IR model with varying no. of judgment holes. But can we? 📰 https://t.co/kuak8c54T2

Exciting news. TREC iKAT (@trec_ikat) is back! The guidelines are available on our website: https://t.co/LVbhlkCfVL In Y2: 1. the collection remains the same; 2. the main task remains the same; 3. we have a new subtask: response-generation-only. Stay tuned for more info!

SEA 🌊 is back! Join us on Friday, May 17th, when @olivierjeunen takes a critical look at evaluating recommender systems using nDCG! Sign up here 👉:

Search Engines Amsterdam 🌊 is back! Next Friday, we host two great talks by @ArthurCamara and @arian_ask on using LLMs for data augmentation in IR. Register now and join us next week:

🚀 Can we rely on LLMs’ internal knowledge to answer complex questions? 🚀 In our recent work with @maliannejadi, we propose a method for generating multiple queries to cover different aspects of the user’s information needs.  The paper is available: https://t.co/yFiDZ647Yo

+ "Are you the iKAT organizer?" - "Yes, are you a participant?" A great surprise earlier today at #ECIR2024 to meet one of the successful teams of iKAT @trec_ikat . @ecir2024

🎉 I’m happy to announce that our resource paper “iKAT: A Test Collection for Evaluating Conversational and Interactive Knowledge Assistants.” got accepted at #SIGIR2024! This is a joint work with @maliannejadi, @ShubhamC526, @leifos, and @JeffD.

Maarten de Rijke @mdr is giving a keynote on transparency and explainability, following his recognition as the recipient of the Keith van Rijsbergen Award! @ecir2024 @irlab_amsterdam #ECIR2024

@mdr is the winner of the first Keith van Rijsbergen Award! @ecir2024 #ecir2024

Another perk of attending #ECIR2024, getting to finally see some of your coauthors in person! @z_abbasiantaeb @EmilianaMurgia @maliannejadi

Excited to share that our participation in @trec_ikat 2023 ranked 1st! We submitted Retrieve-the-Generate and Generate-then-Retrieve runs,combining #LLMs & #search for conversational search. joint work with @z_abbasiantaeb @davidmrau @ChuanMg @srahmanidashti @maliannejadi

🎉I'm excited to share that our paper titled "Let the LLMs Talk: Simulating Human-to-Human Conversational QA via Zero-Shot LLM-to-LLM Interactions" together with @maliannejadi, @YifeiYuan6, and @ekanou has been accepted to #WSDM2024.🎉

📢SEA in October - Efficiency in neural IR 🗓️ Oct 27th, 17:00 CET, in-person at Lab42 or online✍️ Sing up now! Speakers: -Carlos Lassance (Naverlabs) @cadurosar -Jurek Leonhardt (TU Delft) @mr_jleo More info, and registration link: https://t.co/RE5vdSH0w1 @irlab_amsterdam

(1/2) 📢 SEA in September! Only 3 days left to this special edition of SEA with great line of speakers from industry and academia. 🖋️Sign up here: https://t.co/U3tKCVxoJB