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[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

"Two Heads Are Better Than One: Improving Search Effectiveness Through LLM Generated Query Variants", short paper accepted #chiir2025. Led by our Masters student @rankun203 with @Marwah_k @IR_oldie @damiano10. Awesome result Kun! @AdmsCentre @RMITComputing @ACM_CHIIR

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

Many congratulations @Marwah_k, awesome work! @AdmsCentre @RMITComputing

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

Loved this #sigirap2024 talk from @841io. Often wondered if alternatives to the arithmetic mean were worth using, I got my positive answer in this talk.

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

Slides of the talk I gave at the @ACMSIGIR_AP #sigirap2024 #naarm #melbourne satellite on decolonising IR research: https://t.co/g5xTw8vivR

I wished we had more time for a discussion, but it was great to see Katya Khramtsova acknowledging Country at the start of her talk today.

[Johanne @JTrippas]

"Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking?" presented by @weronika_laj w/@damiano10 @krisztianbalog and @JTrippas at #SIGIRAP2024 🇯🇵

🔗https://t.co/kD2sH9JY5p,

#convsearch #sigirap24

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

"Metamorphic Evaluation of ChatGPT as a Recommender System" a cool short paper from an @RMITComputing student, Madhurima Khirbat, showing how superficial changes in prompts can result in substantial change in #gpt #recsys style output @AdmsCentre https://t.co/O71Fe4FlDN

[Oleg Zendel @OlegZendel]

We've kicked off the #SIGIRAP2024 Satellite event at @RMITComputing in Melbourne with a great keynote by @peter_r_bailey from #canva.
Moving on to the hybrid talks in Tokyo.

In the photos a taste of the talks and @damiano10 acknowledging Country with Indigenous artwork on IR

[Johanne @JTrippas]

Next up, @Marwah_k on fooling #LLMs
W/@pt_ir Falk Scholer and @IR_oldie.

#sigirap2024

@RMIT @RMITComputing

[RMIT School of Computing Technologies @RMITComputing]

Many congratulations, Dr @BlinovaValeriia and supervisors! 👩🏼‍🎓

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

Celebrating with @BlinovaValeriia passing her PhD. @RMITComputing

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

Great job @SachinPC10 presenting at the @AcmIcmi #icmi2024 conference in the amazing Costa Rica 🦜

This collaboration with @UjLaw and @TUDelft_AI started with Ujwal’s visit to @AdmsCentre followed by Sachin’s research stay in Delft as part of my @arc_gov_au DECRA
@RMITComputing

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

Many congratulations to @BlinovaValeriia who has (subject to the usual corrections) passed her PhD. Valeriia won best paper awards at CIKM and SIGIR and working with an @RMITComputing undergratuate student she published a full paper at ACL. Incredible work Valeriia!

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

The program for @ACMSIGIR_AP is up, https://t.co/KPFENe6dcX

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

Inspiring talk from @cathal about his Life Logging research. Thank you for joining us @RMITComputing.

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

Boo! 👻 *Deadline extension* for @ACM_CHIIR #CHIIR2025 short/demo/resource papers to Nov 4 (AoE).
DC papers extended to Nov 18!
https://t.co/u6hNMCwE6W

Meanwhile, EasyChair is dealing with Halloween maintenance for the next couple of days...🎃

[RMIT School of Computing Technologies @RMITComputing]

Many congratulations and very well deserved, @JTrippas ! 🌟

[Johanne @JTrippas]

I've been 🌟 promoted 🌟 to Senior Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow @RMIT!

This is a big milestone, and I'm grateful for all the support and guidance from everyone who helped me reach this point.

This news came after presenting my research @cikm2024!

@RMITComputing #RMIT

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

How are those #CHIIR2025 short/demo/resource/DC papers coming along? Still a few days left to submit (due Oct 31 AoE) https://t.co/XOSAiUxvQV @ACM_CHIIR @ACMSIGIR 🪃🐨🦘

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

Sunny Saturday in Naarm/Melbourne, perfect day to celebrate the 505 citations so far in 2024 and to thank all my co-authors, students, mentors, and everyone who has engaged with our work! 🎉@RMITComputing @AdmsCentre
#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #research

[Nalin Arachchilage @DrNalinAsanka]

Had a great time delivering my talk on empowering software developers to build privacy into applications at the #apidays conference in Melbourne! 🎤 Thanks to @apidays for the opportunity! @Rmitccsri @RMITComputing @RMIT #TechTalk #Innovation

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

The Baby Yoda paper is out. @Marwah_k tests the limits of LLM relevance assessment to find that all is not well with LLM QRELs. Some language models mistake query word overlap for relevance a little too often. https://t.co/4tgt3ldas5 @RMITComputing @AdmsCentre

[Johanne @JTrippas]

Ever wondered what people really ask conversational assistants? 🤖🗣️

I'll tell you in my #CIKM2024 presentation this afternoon!

Room: 120C
Time: Wednesday, 13:45 - 15:30

🔗https://t.co/BZr8tmX4R9
Dataset https://t.co/6t30rqi2eA

@joelmmackenzie @RMITComputing @RMIT #ConvAI