On December 16, 2021, at 17.00CET, SEA, the Search Engines Amsterdam meetup, returns with a very special event: a book launch party for Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking BERT and Beyond by Jimmy Lin, Rodrigo Nogueira, and Andrew Yates which has just been published by Morgan & Claypool; consult the publisher’s site for details about the book. This special meetup will feature Andrew Yates (UvA), Chenyan Xiong (MSR), Ellen Voorhees (NIST), and Kyunghyun Cho (NYU). Hop on over to the meetup page to register before seats run out.