🙌 Wow! The #wows24 proceedings showcase 8 relevant research papers + one Keynote topic on #OpenWebSearch

The information + retrieval & OpenWebSearch community met in Glasgow in March at the first International Workshop on Open Web Search #wows2024, co-located with #ecir2024

The proceedings are now available to the public:
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3689/

Thank you to the editors:
Sheikh Mastura Farzana
@maik_froebe Fröbe
@gijs Hendriksen
@grani Granitzer
@djoerd
@potthast Potthast
Saber Zerhoudi

@arjen Carlos Castillo mentioned something similar in their #ECIR2024 keynote, where users reported they liked help of "AI" even if it provided useless recommendations.

Very proud of colleague @arjen who received the #ECIR2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award!

Also had the Girvan 25 while I was there. A lot lighter and sweeter than I usually drink, but it was delicious and worked well with desert; might have paired slightly better with a lighter desert. #ECIR2024

With #ECIR2024 in Glasgow, of course I had to go whisky shopping. The Lagg is quite delicious, on the smoky/peaty side, but more smoked than smoke. Notes of bacon and smoked chili and maybe a hint of dried fruit.

If you're in Glasgow at #ECIR2024, come join us at the first IR4Good session, where we'll be talking about @openwebsearcheu! Alternatively, come talk with us at the 1st International Workshop on Open Web Search #WOWS2024!

Welcome at #ECIR2024, @phoefer!

If you are at #ECIR2024, please come to the 1st International Workshop on Open Web Search #WOWS2024 on Thursday. We may have goodies.

https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024/

The #ECIR2024 collabathon is a really cool experience. Formula: Cool IR people + delicious whiskey + paper flip chart + cool classes = collabathon

Are you at #ECIR2024? Come to the IR4Good track tomorrow morning, where I'll be presenting our paper on the broad landscape of consumer-side IR impacts and intervention strategies. Blog post summary here: https://md.ekstrandom.net/blog/2024/03/ecir-impacts

#ECIR2024 keynote number 4: Carlos Castillo talks about task-oriented search, focusing on how people and search engines ineract and cooperate.

Come and see the Radboud University posters at #ECIR2024: "Weighted AUReC: Handling Skew in Shard Map Quality Estimation for Selective Search" by Gijs Hendriksen and "Knowledge Transfer from Resource-Rich to Resource-Scarce Environments" by Negin Ghasemi.

Janek Bevendorff presents an investigation of SEO spam in search engines: Is Google Getting Worse? https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf #ECIR2024

Andrew Parry shows how to fool cross-encoder rankers by simply adding words like "true" and "relevant" to you documents; keyword stuffing that improves ranking your document for *every* query! (See: "Analyzing Adversarial Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Relevance Models" #ECIR2024)

https://arxiv.org/html/2403.07654v1

#ECIR2024 peeps! Come check out our poster today on multiple comparisons for IR experiments (work led by my PhD grad Ngozi Ihemelandu). https://md.ekstrandom.net/pubs/ecir-mcp

Haiming Liu calls for nominations for the Karen Spärck-Jones award. #ECIR2024 #EACL2024

Now have a recording of my keynote from yesterday's IR4U2 workshop #ECIR2024, along with something new: an edited transcript, for those who would prefer to read.

All of that here: https://md.ekstrandom.net/talks/2024/ir4u2

Really glad to see this analysis at #ECIR2024 for power consumption transparency. Program chairs estimate that ECIR experiments took 15MWh of GPU power.

Graham McDonald welcoming us to #ECIR2024!

Lots of new things, Especially excited for the Findings track — we need more of these, please!

Graham McDonald opens #ECIR2024 in Glasgow