Big thanks to @hscells.bsky.social for presenting this work in Melbourne, and of course also to my co-authors @martin-potthast.com , Andrew Yates, and Eugene Yang! doi.org/10.1145/3805...

Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs | Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

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Super happy that our paper “Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs” just won Best Student Paper at #SIGIR2026🏆 It argues against the reflex to reach for an LLM whenever you need relevance judgments. What we found 🧵:

Melbourne is the place to be this week! 🇦🇺 #SIGIR2026 has officially kicked off, and while we miss Carsten Eickhoff, Harrisen Scells, and Gregory Polyakov back in the office, the Health NLP Lab is well represented in Melbourne this week.

#DESIRES (the International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems) is back! DESIRES has always been* the* conference for discussing (visionary!) search systems. Started in 2018 thanks to Gianmaria Silvello and Omar Alonso. General Chairs in 2027 are […]

Call for papers FDIA 2026: PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access at ESSIR 2026 Present your research. Receive valuable feedback. Connect with fellow researchers. Accepted works can be presented @ecir2027.bsky.social! 2026.essir.eu/fdia/ #informationRetrieval #PhD #SummerSchool

Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access

Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access

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Excellent opportunity for PhD students and early-career researchers!

BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group@bcs-irsg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Call for papers FDIA 2026: PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access at ESSIR 2026 Present your research. Receive valuable feedback. Connect with fellow researchers. Accepted works can be presented @ecir2027.bsky.social! 2026.essir.eu/fdia/ #informationRetrieval #PhD #SummerSchool

Two papers accepted at SIGIR'26 in Melbourne! Both tackle the same question: how do we scale IR evaluation reliably without compromising on human judgment as the gold standard? Spoiler: LLMs-as-a-judge does not work. 🧵1/5

#ECIR2027 is going to Southampton Football Club, England, UK in 2027! We encourage you to join us at www.ecir2027.co.uk and follow this page for updates. #IR #InformationRetrieval

At our SCOLIA workshop at #ECIR2026 we introduced shared tasks. UP2DATE@SCOLIA focusses on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews. Interested? Check out https://up2date.health-nlp.com! @hscells @potthast @carsten @ecir2026.eu

Jan Heinrich Merker presents work - with Harrison Scells @hscells.bsky.social and Martin Potthast @martin-potthast.com - on better support infra for mining the Archive Query Log. See also: https://github.com/webis-de/archive-query-log (Followup on the earlier SIGIR paper.) #ECIR2026

Hello #ECIR2026, the proceedings of our SCOLIA workshop on Thursday are online – https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4187/. Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing you. Happy reading!

Hello #ECIR2026, the proceedings of our SCOLIA workshop on Thursday are online – ceur-ws.org/Vol-4187/. Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing you. Happy reading!

🏆 Congratulations to our #ECIR2026 Reviewer Award & SPC Member Award recipients! Your commitment to high-quality peer review keeps our community thriving. Thank you! 🙏

I've already collected my first two stickers for the @ecir2026.eu Collab-a-thon. If you're in Delft today, don't muss out the first collab-a-thon session at 4pm in LAB.115 🤝 #collab-a-thon #collaboration #research #ecir

Going to @ecir2026.eu in Delft? Or need another reason to go there? Please drop by SCOLIA 2026, our Second International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access to enjoy some exciting presentations! Our programme is online now at https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026. See you in Delft!

We're hiring a Scientific Director for our AI Methods & Software Hub in Tübingen! This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a central hub at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scientific applications. Deadline: 30 April 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...

#ECIR2026 opening by Avishek Anand with photos of Delft when it is not rainy

One of my fav bars in Delft is https://www.locuspublicus.nl/ #ecir2026 #beer

Locus Publicus Delft – sinds 1978

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Quite impressive! The Radboud University Information Retrieval group's contributions to #ECIR2026: nice poster made by @harrieo.bsky.social

Tomorrow, ECIR 2026 kicks off in Delft! 🎉 Day 1: tutorials & workshops at TU Delft's Aula, ending with a welcome reception. With over registered 450 attendees it's going to be a great few days. Don't forget: clocks spring forward tonight! ☀️🕐 We're bagged and ready 🎒 #ECIR2026 #IR #NLP #RecSys

We’re launching a new AI Methods & Software Hub in the ML cluster and are looking for a Director to build and lead it! Shape how ML/AI and software drive scientific discovery—in close collaboration with AI and domain scientists—within an extremely vibrant and collaborative ecosystem!

ML for Science@ml4science.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're hiring a Scientific Director for our AI Methods & Software Hub in Tübingen! This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a central hub at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scientific applications. Deadline: 30 April 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...

The presentations for the #IRRJ session at the at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 are now in the conference schedule at: https://ecir2026.eu/programme/program-schedule/program/detail/38/irrj-papers-presentations

IRRJ Papers Presentations

irrj papers presentations

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Become part of the DAAD & Humboldt Community 👋– a social network for fellows, alumni, and partners! Find out more and join now: daad-humboldt-community.de @daadworldwide.bsky.social

I am happy to share that I defended my PhD thesis this week. I want to thank all the people I collaborated with and met at conferences and workshops over the years! Especially a big thank you to my PhD supervisor, Matthias Hagen, and to Laura Dietz and Udo Kruschwitz for reviewing my thesis.

Going to @ecir2026.eu in Delft? Or need another reason to go there? Please drop by SCOLIA 2026, our Second International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access to enjoy some exciting presentations! Our programme is online now at sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/.... See you in Delft!

CFP – ECIR 2026 Join us at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) 📍 29 March – 2 April 2026 📍 Delft, The Netherlands 🔎 Full program: ecir2026.eu/programme/pr... 📝 Register now: ecir2026.dryfta.com/registration... We look forward to welcoming you to Delft at ECIR 2026!

We just released "German Commons", the largest openly-licensed German text dataset for LLM training: 154B tokens with clear usage rights for research and commercial use. huggingface.co/datasets/coral-nlp/german-commons

coral-nlp/german-commons · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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We are proud to announce that we are now indexed by @dblp! Click below for Volume 1, Number 1, 2025 https://dblp.org/db/journals/irrj/irrj1.html

The organization of #ECIR2026 has started! We just had our first call with all track chairs. With the calls now finalized, online and distributed across mailing lists, we’re moving on to the rest of the conference preparation! @ecir2026.eu 📍 Delft, 30 Mar – 2 Apr 2026 👉 ecir2026.eu

Honored to win the ICTIR Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for "Axioms for Retrieval-Augmented Generation"! Our new axioms are integrated with ir_axioms: github.com/webis-de/ir_... Nice to see axiomatic IR gaining momentum.