IRLab-er Maarten de Rijke leads a new consortium, called LESSEN, on low resource chat-based conversational intelligence. Our interaction with devices…
Maarten de Rijke Inducted into SIGIR Academy Class of 2022
We are very proud to announce that IRLab-er Maarten de Rijke has been inducted into the SIGIR Academy class of…
2020 Best Paper Award from Computer
A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence, which was published…
DIR 2021 ½ Is About To Start
This Friday, February 4, 2022, DIR 2021 ½ will kick off. It’s the first of four Friday sessions, all of…
Paper Accepted at AISTATS 2022
We are very proud to announce that CF-GNNExplainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks by Ana Lucic, Maartje ter Hoeve,…
Tutorial Accepted at ACL 2022
IRLab members Ana Lucic, Maurits Bleeker, and Samarth Bhargav in collaboration with Jessica Zosa Forde, Koustuv Sinha, Jesse Dodge, Sasha…
Yuanxing Liu Visits the IRLab
From January until December 2022 Yuanxing Liu will be visiting the IRLab. Yuanxing is a PhD student from the Harbin…
Four Papers Accepted at WSDM 2022
We are really proud to have four papers co-authored by IRLab members accepted at the 15th ACM International Conference on…
Workshop by ZetaAlpha: Transformers at Work
Our friendly neighbors at ZetaAlpha are organizing the workshop “Transformers at Work” on September 10th, 2021. The workshop will cover…
New Book on Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking
IRLab staff member, Andrew Yates, together with Jimmy Lin and Rodrigo Nogueira from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer…
Three Papers Accepted at EMNLP 2021
We are proud to have three papers co-authored by IRLab members accepted at the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language…
Five Papers Accepted at CIKM 2021
We are proud to have five papers co-authored by IRLab members accepted at the 30th ACM International Conference on Information…
Christof Monz Appointed Full Professor
Christof Monz, former senior staff at IRLab, is appointed full professor at the University of Amsterdam. He directs the Language…
Unwanted Product Detection Challenge
Sebastian Schelter is organizing the Bol.com Unwanted Product Detection Challenge 2021. In this challenge, the task is to automatically detect…
eCom Workshop Proposal Accepted at SIGIR 2021
eCom 2021, The SIGIR 2021 Workshop on eCommerce will be held on July 15. eCom 2021 will serve as a…