On December 2, 2022, at 10.00am, Yangjun Zhang will defend her PhD thesis Malevolent Dialogue Response Detection and Evaluation. Location:…
Clara Rus Joins the IRLab as a PhD Student
Clara Rus is joining the IRLab to work as a PhD student, supervised by Andrew Yates and Maarten de Rijke.…
Ruqing Zhang Joins the IRLab as a Visiting Postdoc
Ruqing Zhang (from the Chinese Academy of Science) is joining the IRLab as a visiting postdoc. Maarten de Rijke will…
Jingfen Qiao Joins the IRLab as a PhD student
Jingfen Qiao is joining the IRLab to work as a PhD student, supervised by Andrew Yates and Evangelos Kanoulas. Jingfen…
Paper Accepted by IEEE TKDE
We are proud to have the following paper by a team involving past and current IRLab members accepted by IEEE…
Paper Accepted by ACM TOIS
We are proud to have the following paper by a team including past and current IRLab members accepted by ACM…
Papers Accepted at CONSEQUENCES+REVEAL Workshop
We are very proud to announce the acceptance of two papers by IRLab members at the Causality, Counterfactuals, Sequential Decision-Making…
Papers Accepted at CIKM 2022
We are very proud to have the following papers by IRLab members accepted at the 31st ACM SIGIR International Conference…
IRLab Has Moved
As of today, August 22, we have moved into LAB42, together with our colleagues from the Informatics Institute and some…
Webinar: Dense Passage Retrieval With Simple Transformers
IRLab Ph.D. student Thilina Rajapakse will be giving a talk on Dense Passage Retrieval with Simple Transformers (https://simpletransformers.ai/) along with…
Ana Lučić Defends her PhD Thesis
On September 23, 2022, at 14.00, Ana Lučić will defend her PhD thesis Explaining Predictions from Machine Learning Models: Algorithms,…
IRLab Is Moving
After three years, IRLab will be leaving the Startup Village at Amsterdam Science Park. Between August 8 and August 19,…
Yifei Yuan Visits the IRLab
From July 2022 onwards, Yifei Yuan will be visiting the IRLab. Yifei is a PhD student from the Chinese University…
PhD Position in Conversational Search and Recommendation
Over the past few years, an increasing amount of attention has been directed toward developing methods that enable Conversational Information…
IRLab Leads New Consortium on Conversational Intelligence
IRLab-er Maarten de Rijke leads a new consortium, called LESSEN, on low resource chat-based conversational intelligence. Our interaction with devices…