Over the past few years, an increasing amount of attention has been directed toward developing methods that enable Conversational Information…
Paper Accepted at NAACL 2022
We are very proud that What Makes a Good and Useful Summary? Incorporating Users in Automatic Summarization Research by Maartje…
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…
Two Papers Accepted at ACL 2022
We are very proud to announce the acceptance of two papers by IRLab members at the 60th Annual Meeting of…
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…
WSDM 2022 Best Paper Award Runner-up
We are very proud to announce that the paper titled Evaluating Mixed-initiative Conversational Search Systems via User Simulation by Ivan…
Thong Nguyen Joins the IRLab as a PhD Student
Thong Nguyen is joining the IRLab to work as a PhD student, supervised by Dr. Andrew Yates. Thong will work…
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,…
Mohammad Aliannejadi Joins the IRLab as Assistant Professor
We are thrilled to announce that Mohammad Aliannejadi is joining the IRLab as a tenure-track assistant professor in information retrieval.…
Paper Accepted at The WebConf 2022
We are very proud to have ParClick: A Scalable Algorithm for EM-based Click Models by Pooya Khandel, Ilya Markov, Andrew…
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…
Philipp Hager Joins the IRLab as a PhD student
Philipp Hager is joining the IRLab to work as a PhD student, supervised by Maarten de Rijke. Philipp will work…
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…