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CIIR Talk Series

Seminar series hosted by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at UMass Amherst. 

CIIR Talk Series: Eunsol Choi, Rethinking Retrieval in the Era of LLM

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, October 4, 2024 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Jian-Yun Nie, Toward Conversational and interactive IR

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, November 15, 2024 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University), Dynamic and Parametric Retrieval Augmented Generation

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, March 14, 2025 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Suzan Verberne (Leiden University), Is the Search Engine of the Future a Chatbot?

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, April 25, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Andrew Yates, Flexible Representations with Learned Sparse Retrieval

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, October 18, 2024 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Zhaochun Ren, Towards Empathetic Conversational Recommender Systems

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, December 13, 2024 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Ian Soboroff (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Evaluating Generative IR Systems

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, March 28, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Michael Ekstrand (Drexel University), Search, Recommendation, and Sea Monsters: Mapping the Landscape of Fairness and Social Impact in Information Access

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, May 9, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Data, Methods, and Evaluation for Knowledge-Grounded Conversational Recommendation System

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, September 20, 2024 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Alane Suhr, Interactive Language Agents: Training, Evaluation, and Interface

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, November 1, 2024 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Danqi Chen (Princeton University), From RAG to Long-context Models: Benchmarks and Model Developments

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, February 28, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

Postponed: CIIR Talk Series, Eduard C. Dragut (Temple University)

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, April 11, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

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