Eugene Agichtein

CS Professor at Emory @emory_CSI . Lead @EmoryIRLab: info search and recommendation, NLP, conversational AI. also "Amazon Scholar" in Alexa.

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

#prouddad

[Zac Agichtein @Zac_Agichtein]

🙏📷 Honored to be selected for the Georgia Independent Athletic Association All-Star Team
@giaasports .
Hyped to play in the All-Star game next weekend.

[Yubin Kim @SIGIR2025 @yubink_cs]

@eugeneAgichtein and I are co-chairing the #SIGIR2025 Demo track this year. Students, did you build something interesting for a class? Start-up folks, I bet you already have a cool demo for pitching VCs. Submit it! It's just 4 pages. 😉 Abstracts are due Feb 4.

[SIGIR 2025 @SIGIRConf]

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for demos is out at

https://t.co/xnBsyGlWLk

Deadlines:
- Abstract: Feb 4, 2025
- Paper: Feb 18, 2025
- Notification: Apr 4, 2025

More info? Ask @eugeneAgichtein and @yubink_cs at [email protected]

[Ramraj Chandradevan @cramraj8]

🚨📢📄Checkout our recent work accepted in #NAACL2024 main conference, 🦆DUQGen: Effective Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Neural Rankers by Diversifying Synthetic Query Generation!
Code - https://t.co/SEfqb19mcX
Paper - https://t.co/siixLJVf0W

🧵(1/n)
#NAACL2024

[Ramraj Chandradevan @cramraj8]

📢📝Delighted to share our recent long paper, titled "🦆DUQGen: Effective Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Neural Rankers by Diversifying Synthetic Query Generation," just got accepted to #NAACL2024 main conference! @KaustubhDhole @eugeneAgichtein
Paper: releasing soon…

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

Product comparison is a key feature of e-commerce where AI could help customers make better decision. Our upcoming #WSDM2023 paper led by @amazonscience colleagues investigates:
https://t.co/IUkxEKi0Pc

[DeepAI @DeepAI]

Detecting Elevated Air Pollution Levels by Monitoring Web Search Queries: Deep Learning-Based Time Series Forecasting
https://t.co/dQPcHB3l8G
by Chen Lin et al. including @eugeneAgichtein
#MachineLearning #NeuralNetwork

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

Excited to share the launch of the 2nd Alexa Prize conversational Task Assistance challenge! First prize $500K. Apply to participate by Nov 4th.
More details:
https://t.co/AAylVHxT9J

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

Applications for the #AlexaPrize TaskBot 2 are now open! University teams will compete to develop multimodal conversational agents that assist customers in completing complex tasks, with a $500,000 prize for first place. Deadline to apply is November 4th. https://t.co/PfDRR3JA9g

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

@MittRomney Yes we must. Will you support extending background checks to restrict access to automatic weapons?

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

Today Amazon announced the launch of the Amazon Postdoctoral Science (APS) program. APS is designed for those who received their PhD in the past two years and want to gain experience via publishing research and mentorship from the #AmazonScience community. https://t.co/fVMlN47n5u

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

#hiring 1-year postdoc or research engineer at @emoryirlab to work on 1) cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) and 2) health-oriented search. MS in CS required (PhD preferred), and #research experience in IR, ML/DM or NLP. Send CV & sample pubs to [email protected]

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

"Alexa, assist me” is now live! https://t.co/qZnBb1ectK

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

@yuvalpi Congrats Yuval!

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

Last call for participation for 2021-2022 Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge: Applications due April 16th. More details in roadshow slides: https://t.co/CDwEUtl4oL

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

Amazon launches new Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge https://t.co/Yzay5N5Ymh

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

Congrats to @alexsalle and co-authors Shervin Malmasi and Oleg Rokhlenko - good internship project. fyi: the same team at Alexa Shopping science is hiring... @AmazonScience

[ECIR 2021 @2021Ecir]

Best #IndustryImpactAward @2021Ecir #ecir2021 @SignalHQ

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

Amazon launches new Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge https://t.co/Yzay5N5Ymh

[Eugene Agichtein @eugeneAgichtein]

Excited to share what we have been cooking up in Alexa. Apply by April 16th!

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

Amazon has launched a new competition for @alexa99, called the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, to help advance the science of conversational AI. The winning university team receives a $500,000 prize. Deadline for applications is April 16, 2021. #AlexaPrize https://t.co/M8eC7R6PLj

[WSDM Conference @WSDMSocial]

If you plan to register to WSDM’21 and haven’t done so yet, please note that early bird registration ends next week, Wednesday Feb. 10th

https://t.co/iarn8s0EtO

#wsdm2021 #Registration