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…
Workshop Proposal Accepted at RecSys 2021
IRLab members, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst will organize a workshop at RecSys 2021, entitled: “XMRec: Workshop on Cross-Market…
Three Papers Accepted at ICDE 2021 and SIGMOD 2021
We are proud that three papers co-authored by IRLab members have been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Data…
Best Paper Award at WSDM 2021
Harrie Oosterhuis and Maarten de Rijke received the best paper award at the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search…
Two Papers Accepted at MICROS Workshop at ECIR 2021
We are very proud that two papers co-authored by IRLab members (and with our MSc students as first authors) have…
Join the IRLab as an AI Engineer
We are looking for a new colleague who can join us as a research engineer with a strong skillset in…
Maartje ter Hoeve in Data Skeptic Podcast about Summarization
IRLab-member Maartje ter Hoeve discusses automatic summarization in the latest Data Skeptic podcast. Go check out the podcast at https://open.spotify.com/episode/3tuLJjyE8hCFkWZ0D4rcYr.
Two Papers Accepted at EDBT 2021
We are very proud that two papers co-authored by IRLab members have been accepted at the 24th International Conference on…
Four Papers Accepted at The Web Conference 2021
We are proud to have four papers co-authored by IRLab members accepted at The Web Conference 2021: Long Short-Term Session…