Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden

Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden (TMRL) is the #NLProc research group led by @Suzan Verberne at @LIACS @LeidenScience @UniLeiden.

[Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden @TMLeiden]

More posters from our group during the poster sessions at CLIN #CLIN34

[Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden @TMLeiden]

Posters from our group during the first poster session at CLIN #CLIN34

[Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden @TMLeiden]

Posters from our group during the first poster session at CLIN #CLIN34

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

#CLIN34 in Leiden is ongoing! We have around 230 participants. Jelena and Gijs are kicking off the plenary session.

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

10 days until #CLIN34! The 34th edition of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, held at @UniLeiden this year.

We present the program on https://t.co/E10OEoiVVZ
Registration is still possible!

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

The slides of my #ESSIR2024 lecture are here: https://t.co/Fjgvq1KfpV

My lecture was rather introductory; @guidozuc followed up with an (excellent!) more advanced lecture.

Thanks, @maliannejadi for inviting me!

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

The 34th edition of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (the Dutch-Belgian #NLProc conference) will be held @UniLeiden on August 30

The list of accepted abstracts is on the website and registration is open for everyone interested 💬

#clin34

https://t.co/E10OEojtLx

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

Photos of my inaugural lecture last Monday @UniLeiden. Thanks to everyone for being there, showing interest, kind words and sweet cards 💚 (last photo: group members and graduates from our research group @TMLeiden)

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

"Why search engines and chatbots are becoming more alike" 🔎 🤖 , interview with me on the @UniLeidenNews website.

https://t.co/P4Ge1w7FHx

[Mohammad Aliannejadi @maliannejadi]

📣📣 Check out ESSIR 2024's program!

We start with Transformers, Foundation Models, and Finetuning, followed by Generative IR, LLMs, (Neural) RecSys, LTR, Evaluation, Explainability, and Fairness.

ESSIR features FIDA and a week-long hackathon!

👩🏻‍💻 https://t.co/o7SUiOgwIy

[Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden @TMLeiden]

We have a new group member: @VerhoefTessa. Tessa has been an assistant professor at @LIACS since 2017, and her work has is related to our group's research. https://t.co/GZ04PFiZxj

She is in the most recent episode of Computers don't byte:
https://t.co/OHaQtvz05c

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

On Monday, June 3rd (16.15, Academy Building) I read my inaugural lecture "Is the search engine of the future a chatbot?"🔎🤖, with which I formally accept my position of professor at @UniLeidenNews

The lecture is public, but registration is needed: https://t.co/7VUR3sj4Zf

[Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden @TMLeiden]

Last Friday, we had a visit by @leifos, who presented the paper "Information Seeking Challenges of Socially Responsible Consumers" https://t.co/ItBeRp7Xo7 in our group meeting.

[Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden @TMLeiden]

This afternoon, @arian_ask gives a presentation in the Search Engines Afternoon (SEA) meeting on "LLMs for Data Augmentation in IR"

He will present his 2023 CIKM and EMNLP papers on synthetic document generation.

Registration: https://t.co/mZVys81WfA

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

Weekly roundtable* meeting of our group @TMLeiden ✌️🤗. It was time for a more or less complete group picture.

(* no longer at a round table after the move to a new building)

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) is coming to Leiden this year! Jointly organized on August 30 by @LUCL_Leiden, @LIACS and @LeidenDH.

We invite everyone to submit an abstract and present a poster.

➡️ https://t.co/E10OEoiVVZ #NLProc #CLIN34

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

I had an awesome time at #ECIR2024 in Glasgow. Always my favourite conference 💚🔎.
Thanks a lot to the organizers; well done!! And to my students, for their great papers and presentations.

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

I am in this photo, but hidden behind my paper🕵️‍♀️

[Negar Arabzadeh @NegarEmpr]

@aminvenv presenting an interesting metric for measuring gender bias in IR (best IR4good paper) @ecir2024 #ECIR2024

[ECIR2024 @ecir2024]

Maarten de Rijke @mdr now gives the first KvR Keynote Speech entitled "Explorations in Transparency" #ecir2024

[Chuan Meng @ChuanMg]

Our reproducibility paper "Ranked List Truncation: From Retrieval to Re-ranking" w/ @NegarEmpr @arian_ask @maliannejadi @mdr got accepted at #SIGIR2024 @SIGIRConf
We show query-specific re-ranking depths can optimize effectiveness/efficiency trade-offs in LLM-based re-ranking