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Andreea Iana @andreea-iana.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Whose news, in which language, chosen how? My interview on @data-skeptic.bsky.social is now out. We got into how news recommenders shape what we read, why they work far better in English than in other languages, and what fairer information access could look like. 🎧 dataskeptic.com/blog/episode...

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News Recommendations

News recommendation algorithms influence far more than what stories we click—they can shape our understanding of the world. In this episode, Kyle Polich speaks with Andreea Iana about responsible AI, ...

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENDED: 14 APRIL! 🚨 More time to submit your work on human-centered approaches for news recommendation to INRA 2026 @umapconf.bsky.social! 🗓️ Submission: 14 April 2026 📣 Notification: 28 April 2026 📍 Workshop: 8 June 2026 (afternoon) 🔗 Details: research.idi.ntnu.no/NewsTech/INR...

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨 Final call! Just 2 days left to submit to INRA 2026 co-located w/ @umapconf.bsky.social! Deadline: April 9! ⚠️ Template update: All papers must use the CEUR-WS template in one-column format. ⚠️ We're excited to read your submissions! Full details: research.idi.ntnu.no/NewsTech/INR...

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ The template format as been updated. All papers must use the CEUR-WS template in one-column format. Submission types: • Regular papers (10 or more standard pages, incl. references) • Short papers (5–9 standard pages, incl. references) 🗓️ Paper deadline: April 9, 2026 #INRA2026 #UMAP2026

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

📣 2nd Call for Papers 📣 Working on user-centered #news #recsys or their legal & ethical aspects? 👉 Submit to the 14th INRA workshop, co-located w/ @umapconf.bsky.social in Gotenburg! 🗓️ Paper deadline: April 9th, 2026 More info: research.idi.ntnu.no/NewsTech/INR... #INRA2026 #UMAP2026

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Working on user-centered #news #recsys or their legal & ethical aspects? 👉 Submit to the 14th INRA workshop, co-located w/ @umapconf.bsky.social in Gotenburg! 🗓️ Paper deadline: ** April 9th, 2026 ** More info: research.idi.ntnu.no/NewsTech/INR... #INRA2026 #UMAP2026

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

📢 INRA is happening today in D4! 📢 We've put together an exiciting program of presentations, posters, an invited talk and an interactive session with a demo! Come check it out! research.idi.ntnu.no/NewsTech/INR... @recsys.bsky.social

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Andreea Iana @andreea-iana.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🚨HiWi position @ Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim! Join the SpatialBenchRAG project to work with #LLMs, #RAG & multimodal data + contribute to open science & publications 🚀 ⏰Starts: Nov 2025 🔗 Details: www.uni-mannheim.de/dws/career/h...

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Hiring: HiWi for SpatialBenchRAG Project

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

📢 Due to popular request, we extended the paper submission deadline to Sunday, July 20th, 23:59 AoE! 3 more days to polish your submissions! 🧹

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Only 10 days left to submit your work to our International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics! 🚀 ▶️ More details: research.idi.ntnu.no/NewsTech/INR... 📆 Submission deadline: July 17th, 2025 AoE 📍 Event co-located with @recsys.bsky.social in Prague on September 26th (tentative)!

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Andreea Iana @andreea-iana.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

📢 Introducing Walk&Retrieve, a simple yet effective zero-shot #RAG framework based on #knowledgegraph walks! Arxiv : arxiv.org/abs/2505.16849 GitHub: github.com/MartinBoeckl... Joint work w/ @martinboeckling.bsky.social @heikopaulheim.bsky.social Details 👇

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

📣 Call for Papers is out! 📣 Working on #news #recsys & their societal, legal, and ethical dimensions? 👉 Submit to the 13th INRA workshop, co-located w/ @recsys.bsky.social in Prague! 📅 Paper deadline: ** July 17th, 2025 ** More info: research.idi.ntnu.no/NewsTech/INR... #INRA2025 #RecSys2025

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INRA Workshop @inra-workshop.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hello! INRA is a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss technical innovations, societal, ethical, and legal aspects of news recommendation and analytics. The upcoming 13th edition of our workshop will be co-located w/ @recsys.bsky.social in Prague. Stay tuned to this channel!

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Fabian David Schmidt @fdschmidt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Introducing MVL-SIB, a massively multilingual vision-language benchmark for cross-modal topic matching in 205 languages! 🤔Tasks: Given images (sentences), select topically matching sentence (image). Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12852 HF: huggingface.co/datasets/Wue... Details👇

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Andreea Iana @andreea-iana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

⚠️Struggling with multilingual news recommendation? We introduce NaSE, a news-adapted sentence encoder!🙌 ✅No costly fine-tuning needed ✅Perfect for cold-start & few-shot scenarios Read our ECIR 2025 📰: arxiv.org/abs/2406.12634 Try it out @hf.co 🤗: huggingface.co/aiana94/NaSE

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News Without Borders: Domain Adaptation of Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Cross-lingual News Recommendation

Rapidly growing numbers of multilingual news consumers pose an increasing challenge to news recommender systems in terms of providing customized recommendations. First, existing neural news recommende...

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Martin Potthast @martin-potthast.com · 14/11/2024

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

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

decided to create a RecSys (and adjacent) starter pack with @vickiboykis.com @beeonaposy.bsky.social et al who am I missing? go.bsky.app/RGf9BvY

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