Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️

1980 | Full Professor of Natural Language Processing (@TMLeiden), @LIACS @UniLeiden | Lives in #Nijmegen | Mother of 2 | 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🏫🤹‍♀️🌱 🎼

[Suzan Verberne 🤹‍♀️ @suzan]

@biancatoeps Matsumoto 🥰

[Alex Cui @alexcdot]

Okay so, we just found that over 50 papers published at @Neurips 2025 have AI hallucinations

I don't think people realize how bad the slop is right now

It's not just that researchers from @GoogleDeepMind, @Meta, @MIT, @Cambridge_Uni are using AI - they allowed LLMs to generate hallucinations in their papers and didn't notice at all.

It's insane that these made it through peer review👇

[Chuan Meng @ChuanMg]

Happy to share that our paper "Generative Retrieval with Few-shot Indexing" has been accepted at #ECIR2026, with @arian_ask, @maliannejadi, @zhaochun_ren, Evangelos Kanoulas and @suzan.

A training-free generative retrieval method with strong performance and much faster indexing

[Toon Beemsterboer @beemsterbuma]

Ik wilde weten waarom Elon Musks chatbot Grok onlangs compleet ontspoorde, allerhande antisemitische stereotypen begon uit te braken, en zichzelf MechaHitler begon te noemen. Wat blijkt: het rabiate buitenbeentje onder de chatbots is gewoon zo getraind. https://t.co/lHlHxDhZFU

[Glasgow IR Group @ir_glasgow]

Huge congratulations to @macavaney on receiving the prestigious ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award in the research category! This well-deserved recognition highlights the excellence & impact of his work in the IR community 👏🎉#sigir2025
Cc @GlasgowCS @UofGlasgow @ACMSIGIR

[Omar Khattab @lateinteraction]

The #SIGIR2025 Best Paper just awarded to the WARP engine for fast late interaction!

Congrats to Luca Scheerer🎉 WARP was his @ETH_en MS thesis, completed while visiting us at @StanfordNLP.

Incidentally, it's the fifth Paper Award for a ColBERT paper since 2020!*

Luca did an incredible job leading and executing this. See the thread below for some relevant links.

*Though it's notable that this is actually the first among these awards with ColBERT(v1/v2) authors😅😅

[Chirag Shah @chirag_shah]

Shameless self-promotion! Check out the book on #GenIR edited by @ryen_white and me (with 9 chapters written by highly distinguished scholars) at the @SpringerNature booth at #SIGIR2025 https://t.co/580v60z9bp

[Negar Arabzadeh @NegarEmpr]

Honored to be recognized as one of the top reviewers @ACMSIGIR —and even more thrilled to meet BM25’s dad in person! #SIGIR2025

[Claudio Pomo @scne]

Wow, honored to be named an Excellent PC Member at @SIGIRConf!
Glad my obsessive... I mean detailed... reviewing style paid off. 🤓✨
Huge thanks to the chairs for the recognition and congrats to all the other reviewers!
#SIGIR #SIGIR2025 #Award #BestReviewer

[Peter Brusilovsky @peterpaws]

A good thought-provoking panel at the start of @SIGIRConf 2025 #SIGIR2025 "Is Search Dead? The Rise or Demise of Search in the Era of LLMs". Many valuable points on the topic from an excellent team of panelists.

[Iadh Ounis @iadh]

At the opening of #sigir2025; @frrncl opened the conference with also an address from ACM President Yannis Ioannidis.

[Loesje v/d Posters @LoesjeNL]

** AZC-rellen

dat je zo bang
bent voor
overlast dat je
zelf alvast je
woonplaats
vernielt **

#Loesje #Coevorden

[Dawn Anderson @dawnieando]

Suspect some of this has now been implemented with AI Overviews. Looking forward to more thoughts from IR professors at this year's European Summer School for Information Retrieval next week.

[SIGIR 2025 @SIGIRConf]

The detailed program for #sigir2025 is available at:

https://t.co/Z9sE1cuxN8

[SIGIR 2025 @SIGIRConf]

If, due to exceptional circumstances, you are not able to travel to Padua to present your paper, please contact the chairs at [email protected] on May 30th CEST the latest to discuss possible solutions.

https://t.co/WT0g6K51U4

[Charlie Clarke @claclarke]

In only two years LLM-based relevance assessment has gone from rejections because it’s crazy and dangerous to rejections because it is boring and standard.

[Leonie @helloiamleonie]

ModernBERT 🤜 🤛 ColBERT = ModernColBERT

ModernColBERT is the latest state-of-the-art text-based late interaction model by @LightOnIO.
- Based on the ModernBERT-base encoder
- Outperforms ColBERT-small on the BEIR retrieval benchmark

Here’s a quick notebook I threw together covering how you can use ModernColBERT with @weaviate_io:
https://t.co/QryGiTTpMy

[Avishek Anand @run4avi]

ECIR 2025 was a great success. Hoping to make a memorable #ECIR2026 with the dream team of @suzan and @zhaochun_ren … We will be preparing to welcoming all of us to Delft.

[Johanne @JTrippas]

We're kicking off the Search Futures workshop @ecir2025. Starting with a talk on combining search and recommendation by Jujia Zhao, @zhaochun_ren and @suzan

[ECIR2025 @ecir2025]

…and the next ECIR will be in Delft, The Netherlands! See you at #Ecir2026
@run4avi