PhD-Student in the webis.de group. Interested in IR and NLP.
Maik Fröbe
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
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
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.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Check out the slides from our SCAI'2025 #convsearch workshop collocated with @ijcai.org #IJCAI2025 on LLMs, retrieval & QA, recommendations, negotiations, evaluation and transparency
scai.info/scai-2025
@patuchen.bsky.social @maik-froebe.bsky.social @tuetschek.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social
PyTerrier, a software platform developed at
@uofgcompsci.bsky.social which helps facilitate the development of AI-powered search engines, has won a national award from @wearebcs.bsky.social!
Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
🌟Really excited to share the fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) report published in SIGIR Forum!
Paper 👉🏻 www.johannetrippas.com/papers/tripp...
More info 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/swirl20...
#SWIRL2025 #SIGIR2026 #IR #GenAI #Research #CHIIR2026
Announcing the release of the NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task participation guidelines: ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines.
Please reshare and spread the word. #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT
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Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Maik Fröbe @maik-froebe.bsky.social, from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, who was invited to give a guest lecture and a talk to our group about his recent work on evaluation in information retrieval.
Jan Heinrich Merker
Webis Group
We've released test queries for NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task (languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English).
ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines
Register: research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-... (DEADLINE: JUNE 1ST)
Submissions due: July (TBA) #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT
Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop #DIR2025 today in Nijmegen! Opening by the great Harrie Oosterhuis
https://informagus.nl/dir2025/schedule
Maik Fröbe
Svitlana Vakulenko
UofGNews
Johanne Trippas
Health NLP Lab
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.
Announcing the release of the NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task participation guidelines: ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines.
Please reshare and spread the word. #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT
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Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.
Tip of the tongue: The phenomenon of failing to retrieve something from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.
