Ingo Frommholz
@frommholz.org
Professor of Applied Data Science at Modul University Vienna. Computer Science, Information Retrieval, AI, NLP and Digital Libraries. Electronic music and @schalke04.de. Opinions are my own. https://frommholz.org
Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/
Still time to submit a proposal for a thought-provoking panel at JCDL 2026 in Dallas, Texas. Proposals should address pressing or emerging issues in digital libraries, archives, and related domains, offering fresh perspectives and meaningful dialogue. Deadline July 31. 2026.jcdl.org/call-for-pan...
Call for Panels -
Call for Panel Proposals We invite dynamic and thought-provoking panel proposals that will stimulate critical debate, foster deep reflection, and generate actionable insights across the evolving lands...
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Graduation ceremony at Modul University Vienna – congratulations to our students and all the best on your journey. A degree is not the end, it’s the beginning!
250 years. It was a good run. (gift link)
‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots
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Over the last five years, the Association for Computing Machinery has been dealing with a rapid rise in allegations of research misconduct that have created a backlog of cases to investigate.
Computer science society creates new research integrity role to address case backlog
AndreyPopov/iStock Over the last five years, the Association for Computing Machinery has been dealing with a rapid rise in allegations of research misconduct that have created a backlog of cases to…
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Lots of interesting articles, with a little history lesson by someone we all (should) know!
IRRJ@irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · last mo.#IRRJ Volume 2, Number 1 of June 2026 is out! Check out the online issue at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol2no1 (as always, fully open access! you -- the reader -- does not pay, the authors did not pay, but all is covered by volunteers and donations from friend organisations)
Follow @ecir2027.bsky.social for the latest news about ECIR 2027 in Southampton, UK! bsky.app/profile/ecir...
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Please nominate for the KSJ Award. The awardee will be invited to give a keynote at @ecir2027.bsky.social medium.com/bcs-irsg-inf...
Karen Spärck Jones Award | BCS
Read more about the award.
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BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group@bcs-irsg.bsky.social · last mo.Call for Nominations: Karen Spärck Jones Award 2026 Honouring outstanding researchers advancing IR or NLP through their significant contributions, in memory of one of our field's pioneers. Details: www.bcs.org/membership-a... The KSJ Award is sponsored by Bloomberg 🙏 #IR #NLP #AI #BCSIRSG
Sole Pera will give the keynote at #ICTIR2026: "Child’s Play? Search and Recommender Systems in Practice" https://sigir-ictir.github.io/ictir2026/program/
Program | ICTIR 2026
ICTIR 2026 Website
sigir-ictir.github.io
Join my research group @wuvienna.bsky.social working at the cutting edge of #IR and #ML! 1. Project Staff Member (3.5 years) jobs.wu.ac.at/Project-staf... 2. Teaching & Research Associate (6 years) jobs.wu.ac.at/Teaching-and... #AI #PhDJobs #NeuroSymbolicAI #convsearch
Job opportunity Project staff member (pre-doc) at think:impact - Dabei sein, wenn Denken zur Zukunft wird. An der WU Wirtschaftuniversität Wien finden Sie Jobs, um Ihr Potenzial zu entfalten.
others in Wien
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I was examiner of Oliver’s thesis, so this is worth looking at if you’re interested in the topic of detecting and handing online conflict.
IRRJ@irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · last mo.Published at #IRRJ: "Beyond Hostility: Detecting Subtle and Overt Forms of Online Conflict with Multi-Objective Learning" by Oliver Warke, Joemon M. Jose, and Jan Breitsohl. #Hostility, #OnlineConflictDetection, #SocialMedia, #BehaviourAnalysis, #KnowledgeDistillation, #Transformers, #NLP […]
British politics is toxic. I lost count, but I think the UK had almost more prime ministers since Brexit than Schalke had managers. And that is a tough baseline! #KeirStarmer
Reminder: Submit your early-stage and PhD research to FDIA and get feedback and mentorship from senior experts!
BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group@bcs-irsg.bsky.social · 2mo agoCall 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
digging through things for reasons, found a thing I wrote a few years ago… what is a dissertation? md.ekstrandom.net/blog/2022/02...
What Is a Dissertation?
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As AI systems grow more capable, so does the pressure they place on people and organisations. Our research in the OMINO project explores how increasing AI agency is creating new challenges for human–AI collaboration. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/115... #ArtificialIntelligence #InformationOverload
Artificial Intelligence Overload: A Multilevel Taxonomy and the Path Forward
As AI becomes a ubiquitous and partially autonomous layer of everyday activity, it increases information volume, interaction tempo, delegated decision-making, and supervisory requirements. This paper ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org
Excellent opportunity for PhD students and early-career researchers!
BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group@bcs-irsg.bsky.social · 2mo agoCall 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
In 2028, the 50th ECIR will take place– and you could be organising it! Where will the journey go after Southampton next year? We're calling for bids to organise the European Conference on Information Retrieval 2028. www.bcs.org/membership-a... #informationRetrieval #ECIR2027 #ECIR2028
Call for proposals to host ECIR | BCS
The BCS-IRSG Committee (referred to here as IRSG) is interested in hearing from bidders who wish to organise the European Conference on Information Retrieval in a European country.
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As submissions to scientific journals continue to climb, it’s becoming more time-consuming to find ones that may offer truly novel ideas. This U.K. competition is paying the winner £300,000 for suggesting how AI could help. #peerreview #scicomm @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
How novel is that research paper? Competition to quantify concept crowns winner
The automated tool could be used to help journals vet submissions
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[Tim Robinson generic character voice] Who said that?
As impressive and impactful (in a good way and bad way) as they are, any anthropomorphisation of "AI" or LLMs and discussion about consciousness or them having feelings is pure marketing. We shouldn't have to waste time on this. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... #ai #llm #consciousness #marketing
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
theatlantic.com
Please consider submitting a bid if you want to give a tutorial at BCS Search Solutions in London!
BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group@bcs-irsg.bsky.social · 2mo agoFancy giving a tutorial? We invites tutorial proposals for BCS Search Solutions 2026, which focusses on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real-world problems. Tutorial day is Tuesday November 24 in London. More information at www.bcs.org/membership-a....
I've been trying to resolve the cognitive dissonance between "AI-generated summaries are useful" and the backlash that Dr. Fieisler (@cfiesler.bsky.social), myself, and many others felt at the ACM DL briefly making them default over authors' abstracts in December. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026...
2026-05-28: If LLMs can write abstracts, what's our job? The Uncanny Valley and Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect in the ACM Digital Library
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
With an h-index of 75, computer scientist Thippa Reddy Gadekallu ranks among the world’s most highly cited researchers. But the speed and means of his ascent to those lofty heights of scholarship has been as remarkable as the achievement itself.
A researcher’s unusually high h-index gives a window into an expansive citation network
dem10/istock With an h-index of 75, computer scientist Thippa Reddy Gadekallu ranks among the world’s most highly cited researchers. But the speed and means of his ascent to those lofty heigh…
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Please submit a challenge for the #CIKM2026 #AnalytiCup. The proposal should include a well-motivated goal with real world impact, a novel and challenging task, a fair setup with stable evaluation approach, and adequate amount of real-world data for the competition […]
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Less than three weeks until early registration deadline! Information about travel, accommodation, grants is now available. 2026.essir.eu #ESSIR2026 #Bucharest
There will be an IRRJ special issue on ECIR: Participants of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (#ECIR2026), which took place from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, the Netherlands, are invited to submit an extended version of their ECIR 2026 paper. The special issue will be […]
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Some reflections on frequently unasked questions about stochastic parrots (the phrase and the paper): medium.com/@emilymenonb...
Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions
It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…
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