David Otero

@UDC_gal 💻

[Mikel Artetxe @artetxem]

El sinsentido de @ANECAinfo y del sistema académico español a la hora de valorar los congresos de IA es incomprensible y tremendamente dañino. Quien defiende estos criterios es, en el mejor de los casos, un ignorante completo de los estándares de publicación de nuestro campo, cuando no miembro de una mafia que se beneficia del sistema.

El Premio Nobel de Física y Premio Turing @geoffreyhinton, considerado el padre de la IA moderna, ha publicado 20 artículos en congresos A* y solamente 3 en revistas en los últimos 10 años. Según los criterios de ANECA, debe ser un investigador mediocre que todavía no se ha enterado dónde hay que publicar.

[Julio Gonzalo @JulioGonzalo1]

La ANECA valora los congresos CORE A+ -- los lugares más competitivos y de más prestigio donde publicar en IA -- como a las revistas del ultimo tercil en JCR. ¿Alguien en @ANECAinfo puede explicarlo? ¿Se dan cuenta de hasta qué punto fomentan nuestra irrelevancia científica?

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

👉 In “Hybrid Pooling with LLMs via Relevance Context Learning” (with @davidoterof), we turn examples into explicit, topic-aware relevance narratives, rethinking how LLMs judge relevance. #SIGIR2026

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

👉In “Learning Evidence of Depression Symptoms via Prompt Induction”, (with Eliseo Bao, @anxopvila and @davidoterof ) we teach LLMs to detect symptoms by turning examples into clear, reusable guidelines. #SIGIR2026

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

Happy to share that the @IRLab_UDC team will present the following works at #SIGIR2026 🎉 Great work by everyone involved, very proud of these contributions! Abstracts below👇

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

🥳 @itspalomap paper "Can LLMs Evaluate What They Cannot Annotate? Revisiting LLM Reliability in Hate Speech Detection" has been accepted at #LREC2026 w/ @davidoterof & @patrimrodilla See you in Palma 🇪🇸✈️
🔗https://t.co/jxeH1xtbgj
📀https://t.co/zawV69Nx10

[Sumit @_reachsumit]

LLM-Assisted Pseudo-Relevance Feedback

@davidoterof et al. propose using LLMs to filter pseudo-relevant documents before RM3 query expansion, reducing topic drift while avoiding hallucinations.

📝 https://t.co/yuOLx5nnUP
👨🏽‍💻 https://t.co/7JLOoaFRKA

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

Happy to see this work with @davidoterof accepted at #ECIR2026. A deceptively simple yet effective idea: improve PRF through selective relevance feedback using small LLMs, denoising the feedback set without polluting or overcomplicating the underlying PRF model.

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

The Special Issue on LLMs as Evaluators in Springer Nature is now open for submissions. We welcome contributions on reliability and bias, human–LLM collaboration, efficiency, and applications across domains such as IR, NLP, healthcare, or social computing.
https://t.co/yVrLEwR8Zc

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

🧠💬 How does depression "talk" on social media?
@eliseobao’s work explores depression-related language on Reddit & Twitter using relevance-based models to better understand and detect mental health risks.
🔗https://t.co/GQQXbsMF4f
w/ @anxopvila & @davidoterof

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

🎉 Very proud of @JorgeGabin_! Today, he successfully defended his PhD Thesis titled 'Improving the Search Experience on Complex Search Scenarios' 📚 Big thanks to @wangxieric, @patrimrodilla and @DavidELosada, for serving on the committee

[Antena 3 Noticias @A3Noticias]

🧠 Un investigador gallego demuestra que la IA puede anticipar problemas de salud mental

Vía @Antena3Galicia
https://t.co/xCO623f6C0

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

Couldn’t be prouder! 🎉 @anxopvila has received @sepln’s Best NLP PhD Thesis Award, a huge honor and well-deserved recognition of his work. 👏🌟

[Javier Parapar @jparapar]

Now at #CLEF2025 @UNED! 🚀 @anxopvila is presenting this year’s @earlyrisk Lab overview. Join us at the #eRisk sessions today and tomorrow to discover the great work of our participating teams!

[Antonio Muñoz Herrera @Mr_Lanto]

Para estos días y estos tiempos que corren sin freno, esto de Marías.

[David Otero @davidoterof]

Had a great time during the poster session today! Many interesting conversations and cool ideas 🚀 #SIGIR2025

[David Otero @davidoterof]

If you care about multiple comparisons in IR (you should!), you might want to check our work on this problem. Spoiler: Bonferroni is ok, but there are better alternatives. #SIGIR2025

https://t.co/B7c9sNjLcu

[Elad Yom-Tov @elad1]

There's an Italian who's sorely missing at #sigir2025. His name is Carlo Emilio Bonferroni. If he'd been here, 3 of 8 papers in a session I was at would not have been there. Please remember to correct for multiple hypothesis testing.