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Most reporting on AI examines worst-case systems deployed under the guise of efficiency. But what would a good faith effort at Ethical AI look like? For two years, we’ve been looking over the shoulder of a city trying to do things differently.

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All @acm.org publications will be 100% Open Access as of January 2026. When we announced this at POPL and CHI this year, conference participants spontaneously erupted in applause. The CS community is excited about ACM's move to OA!

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The deadline for submissions to the ReNeuIR workshop at #SIGIR2025 is extended to June 10 😸 Details: reneuir.org #ReNeuIr2025 #SIGIR25

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PAN 2025 Call for Participation: Shared Tasks on Authorship Analysis, Computational Ethics, and Originality We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2025 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Madrid, Spain. Find out more at pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25...

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The fourth edition of ReNeuIR @ #SIGIR2025 is back!! Check reneuir.org to see what we have in mind this year! Paper submission deadline: May 20, 2025.

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Can LLM-generated ads be blocked? With OpenAI adding shopping options to ChatGPT, this question gains further importance. If you are interested in contributing to the research on LLM-based advertising, please check out our shared task: touche.webis.de/clef25/touch... More details below.

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New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...

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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

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The Workshop on Open Web Search at #ECIR2025 just starts with a keynote by @claclarke.bsky.social on Annotative Indexing. #WOWS25 #WOWS2025 #ECIR25

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The Workshop on Open Web Search just finished #WOWS2025 #ECIR2025. It was a very cool experience with many interesting talks. Lets hope we can do it again next year at #ECIR2026 in Delft :)

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Honored to receive the best short paper award and best paper honourable mention award at #ECIR2025. Thank you to all co-authors @maik-froebe.bsky.social, @hscells.bsky.social, Shengyao Zhuang, @bevankoopman.bsky.social, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, @martin-potthast.com, @matthias-hagen.bsky.social 🥳

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📢 Our paper "The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation" has been accepted to #SIGIR2025 ! We compared how good humans and LLMs are at writing and judging RAG responses, assembling 1800+ responses across 3 styles, and 47K+ pairwise judgments in 7 quality dimensions. 🧵➡️

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1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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New preprint of WSDM demo by @maik_froebe @matthias and Ferdinand Schlatt Lightning IR: Straightforward Fine-tuning and Inference of Transformer-based Language Models for Information Retrieval https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04677 https://webis.de/lightning-ir/

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Interested in joining our research group or do you know someone who might be interested? We have a new vacancy: Research position at the Webis group on Watermarking for Large Language Models. More information: webis.de/for-students...

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Nearly there now - just a few hundred more days to go.

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2nd International Workshop on Open Web Search: CfP We invite you to the #ECIR2025 Workshop on Open Web Search #wows2025. Please consider to submit to the scientific track or the WOWS-Eval shared task to enrich the Open Web Index with relevance judgments. Details: opensearchfoundation.org/wows2025

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My advisor warned me that academics trend towards bitterness. He encouraged me to intentionally resist this, remember where I came from, and never forget the privilege of getting to spend a life working with knowledge and ideas. He too said that bitterness and resentment is easy.

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Analyzing game boards ain't ChatGPT's thing, yet. (German conversation, alt texts in English) The game is "Mensch ärgere dich nicht", a dice game in which the aim is to move your own four pieces around the board without being thrown back to square 1 by the pieces of the other players ... 1/4

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The 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining #WSDM2025 will be in Hannover, Germany on March 10th-14th, 2025 https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2025/

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Before you all delete your accounts on X, you should consider deleting content but "donating" them to science. Many institutions, such as @gesis-dataservices.bsky.social might use them to scrape more effectively than via burner accounts.

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🐣 New release: small-text v2.0.0.dev1 With Small Language Models on the rise, the new version of small-text has been long overdue! Despite the generative AI hype, many real-world tasks still rely on supervised learning—which is reliant on labeled data. #activelearning #nlproc #nlp #llms

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The #TREC2024 conference just started. Turns out that BM25 is turning 30 🥳 #TREC #TREC24

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Time for a starter pack on information retrieval: go.bsky.app/MXPJoTn

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Hello, Computational linguistics/NLP world in Bluesky! We're creating the same accounts on other social media platforms in Bluesky! #NLProc

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Today we will present our poster on Query Variation Robustness of Transformer Models at #EMNLP2024. You can find us at the Information Retrieval and Text Mining 3 poster session at #EMNLP2024.

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@bsky.app is there a way to follow all the people someone is following with a click, or make a starter pack from them? Would be a very fast way to create big networks when onboarding.

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Tomorrow's introductory lecture on IR will be fun: We'll discuss examples of situations where retrieval systems succeed and fail. Here's a nice little example of news retrieval and how RAG systems fail at it. More research is needed if they are going to be used for any type of question.

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