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…
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…