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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@djoerd are you sure you're not trying to sign out? 😘🤗

Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

"Doesn't it bother you, the sort of things you do at Information Retrieval?" Thanks for dropping by at Radboud on your NL trip this week Michael Ekstrand @mdekstrand and sharing your views on evaluation in search and recsys, especially on how to set the right […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

First day of sabbatical, visiting Carsten Eickhoff @carsten and his Health-NLP Lab, in an impressive Monastry in the South of Germany. I introduced the OpenWebSearch.EU project, and now are treated with some 20 flashtalks about cool ongoing research! (including all things adapters by @hscells :)

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Amazon Prime wenst u een lang en gezond leven toe! (>56000 jaar)

Screenshot gehuurde film die je nog 20_699_086 dagen mag bekijken.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Sole Perra giving her keynote about children in search and recommendation. Elsagate, Sven or Seven, KidSpell, 💩💡, puppyIR, Yahooligans, yes, you really missed something if you were not here! One key message is to take the children's perspective seriously […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Inspiring keynote by Cecile Paris on lessons from the history in NLP and IR that can and should inform our future research, especially through learning from models of human-human communication (aka "user modelling"). And a really nice photo from Dagstuhl 1985, with KSJ #SIGIR2026

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

After watching the soccer final in Melbourne with long time IR friends 🤗 Getting up at 4.30am, jet lag to the rescue! #SIGIR2026 #Spain #Argentina #Final

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

This week in Melbourne, Informagus, the Information Retrieval research group from Radboud University, NL, participates actively in many parts of the ACM SIGIR and ICTIR 2026 conferences. Please come check out our contributions if you attend as well! #SIGIR2026 #ICTIR2026

Our entries in the ACM SIGIR & ICTIR 2026 programme in one picture.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

What do you do your first day back in Oz?! Go and watch that 4K restoration of Strictly Ballroom in a movie theatre / museum downtown Melbourne, the ACMI, what else! It was as lovely a film as I remembered! (Baz Luhrmann is my fav director.) Here's some […] [Original post on idf.social]

The main characters of Strictly Ballroom dancing the Paso Doble

Photo: Mary Evans Picture Library

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Computer systems and Dutch last names, never a good pair. In 1994 my Bank Boston bank pass was like that, it's more than 30byears later (!) and not much has changedc

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

This week I am in Melbourne, with this sunrise at my arrival, for #SIGIR2026 the ACM SIGIR 2026 conference! Looking forward to learning a lot and seeing many old friends!

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Returned from a great weekend full of music and other entertainment at DTRH 2026, the picture is the view from the main stage looking out over the water, taken right after the Florence and the Machine show #dtrh2026

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Come on G$$G, you cite the source that explains that your AI is giving a crap results overview as evidence for your crap results overview! futurism.com/artificial-intelligenc… What happened to the fight with SEO, have you given up?

Screenshot of Google's rubbish AI overview for the query SCP-565

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

IR friends, please allow inclusions in collections and I will make a nice one that features you! Do so through preferences, privacy and reach, and then turn on the discovery feature, see the screenshot!

Screenshot that shows how ppl can enable inclusion in collections.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Deur kantoor v2.0 Verzet je Maak plezier! Dans, drink, lach, omarm, en durf! Durf te denken, te twijfelen, lief te hebben. Kom nou. Kom toch in verzet. Dank je Marcia Luyten, voor het mooie inspirerende gedicht, qua inhoud en vorm. Hopelijk weten veel studenten mijn kantoor te vinden 😁🤗

Poster met gedicht Verzet je, van Marcia Luyten

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Voor wie nog enigszins geloofd in de illusie van "Nederland Gidsland", even de werkelijke cijfers over de stand van de emancipatie van de vrouw...

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

In afwachting van de bekerfinale #NEC Grote markt is al vol (5000 mensen), meer dan 2 uur voor de aftrap. Succes straks mensen!!! (Foto "geleend")

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

#Nijmegen vol enthousiasme voor de bekerfinale deze zondag #NEC Gaat het dan dit keer lukken?!

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Bye everyone! Had a great time at #ECIR2026 and am looking forward to South Hampton in 2027, or, who knows, Melbourne this "summer", or even sooner, in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Nijmegen, etc Feeling inspired!

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Jimmy Lin 🪄 sharing his ongoing (agentic?) loop between 🤯 and 🤷‍♂️ state of mind wrt coding and GenAI. Reproducibility, yes, but for who? For our students, or for our students' coding agents? Will teaching class just become sharing the SKILL.md file? Do we only […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Laura Caspari presented CoRECT to improve benchmarking RAG experiments while considering dimensionality and quantisation. github.com/padas-lab-de/CoRECT

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Jan Heinrich Merker presents work - with Harrison Scells @hscells.bsky.social and Martin Potthast @martin-potthast.com - on better support infra for mining the Archive Query Log. See also: github.com/webis-de/archive-query-l… (Followup on the earlier SIGIR paper.) #ECIR2026

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

@djoerd wrapping up the IRRJ (pronounced by some as "urge") session emphasizing the importance of Diamond Open Access, reminding us that you can also present your paper at FIRE (in December), the work behind the scenes to get the journal included in established […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Now Yiqun Liu introducing Tetsuya Sakai as the Keith van Rijsbergen award winner! What an excellent choice 🤗 #ECIR2026

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Mohanna Hoveyda presenting our work on the Oracle and the Logician, OrLog, where the LLM provides plausibility estimates for clauses in an (auto generated) Probabilistic Prolog program that will produce the answer to complex entity queries. The approach seperates […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Gijs Hendriksen presenting our work on "remote querying" to provide access to huge Web resources through de facto standard tech: Parquet files in S3 queried using #DuckDB to facilitate IR research at very acceptable latencies. Run your ClueWeb experiment in 10 […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Djoerd's talk naturally led into the panel closing the IR for Good sessions today. Moderator Maria Heuse and panelists Bhaskar Mitra, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Madeleine I. G. Daepp, and Djoerd Hiemstra; left to right in the photo attached. Highlights include: Bring […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

@djoerd Second goal: Web search should be a collaborative effort. Draws an analogy to car industry, where many brands share the same "platform" (the car body). Just like OWS.EU does this! Third goal: We need open standards for Web search "production lines" […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Keynote by @djoerd about Web search as a public utility, and of course ows.eu Note the #openwebsearch and #DuckDB stickers on the laptop 😉

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Katja Hofmann celebrates her "academic homecoming" with a #ECIR2026 keynote on People-centric AI. Young faces in the photo 😉

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Good morning from Delft, at #ECIR2026 We are in the tutorial on Reasoning for IR & IR for Reasoning: reasoning-for-ir.github.io

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Thanks to @wilbowma for raising issue with GenAI features in the ACM DL for premium users. It took a little effort to check this, but by going through our uni library I can access ACM articles as premium user. The screenshot (of a paper by Carsten Eickhoff) […] [Original post on idf.social]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

Today: DIR 2025 at #Radboud University in Nijmegen. informagus.nl/dir2025/schedule Harrie Oosterhuis opening #DIR2025 with a brief history of past editions and basic stats about submissions. 1/n

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

Alexander Serebrenik gives today's diversity lecture at the Science Faculty. He starts with a warm welcome by claiming software engineering is a social science :-)

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

Michael Granitzer opening the final OWS.EU project meeting - planning what to do until March 2026, and how to keep things afloat after March.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Gabrielle Pasi opening the Women in IR panel on Career Development. The panelists are Irina Gurevych (also today's keynote speaker), Yoelle Maarek, Vanessa Murdock and Min Zhang 🤩🤩🤩🤩

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