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PAN 2025 Call for Participation: Shared Tasks on Authorship Analysis, Computational Ethics, and Originality We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2025 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Madrid, Spain. Find out more at pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25...

Sebastian Heineking @sheineking.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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We share your concern that LLMs could be prompted to generate responses that are biased in favor of certain products. That is why we are currently organizing a shared task on detecting advertisements in the responses of RAG-based search engines: bsky.app/profile/webi...

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Martin Potthast @martin-potthast.com · 30/04/2025

The fourth edition of ReNeuIR @ #SIGIR2025 is back!! Check reneuir.org to see what we have in mind this year! Paper submission deadline: May 20, 2025.

Teaser Image: The text says ReNeuIR’25 - Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval

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Webis Group @webis.de · 30/04/2025

Can LLM-generated ads be blocked? With OpenAI adding shopping options to ChatGPT, this question gains further importance. If you are interested in contributing to the research on LLM-based advertising, please check out our shared task: touche.webis.de/clef25/touch... More details below.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 26/04/2025

New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...

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META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments

[r/changemyview](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/) is a popular (top 1%) well moderated subreddit with an extremely well developed [set of rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org

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Maik Fröbe @maik-froebe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The Workshop on Open Web Search at #ECIR2025 just starts with a keynote by @claclarke.bsky.social on Annotative Indexing. #WOWS25 #WOWS2025 #ECIR25

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Maik Fröbe @maik-froebe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The Workshop on Open Web Search just finished #WOWS2025 #ECIR2025. It was a very cool experience with many interesting talks. Lets hope we can do it again next year at #ECIR2026 in Delft :)

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Ferdinand Schlatt @fschlatt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Honored to receive the best short paper award and best paper honourable mention award at #ECIR2025. Thank you to all co-authors @maik-froebe.bsky.social, @hscells.bsky.social, Shengyao Zhuang, @bevankoopman.bsky.social, Guido Zuccon, Benno Stein, @martin-potthast.com, @matthias-hagen.bsky.social 🥳

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Webis Group @webis.de · 07/04/2025

📢 Our paper "The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation" has been accepted to #SIGIR2025 ! We compared how good humans and LLMs are at writing and judging RAG responses, assembling 1800+ responses across 3 styles, and 47K+ pairwise judgments in 7 quality dimensions. 🧵➡️

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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Important Dates ---------------------- now Training Data Released May 23, 2025 Software submission May 30, 2025 Participant paper submission June 27, 2025 Peer review notification July 07, 2025 Camera-ready participant papers submission Sep 09-12, 2025 Conference

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4. Generative Plagiarism Detection. Given a pair of documents, your task is to identify all contiguous maximal-length passages of reused text between them. pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25...

PAN at CLEF 2025 - Generated Plagiarism Detection

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3. Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis. Given a document, determine at which positions the author changes. pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25...

PAN at CLEF 2025 - Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis

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2. Multilingual Text Detoxification. Given a toxic piece of text, re-write it in a non-toxic way while saving the main content as much as possible. pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25...

PAN at CLEF 2025 - Multilingual Text Detoxification

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1. Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection. Subtask 1: Given a (potentially obfuscated) text, decide whether it was written by a human or an AI. Subtask 2: Given a document collaboratively authored by human and AI, classify the extent to which the model assisted. pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25...

PAN at CLEF 2025 - Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection

PAN at CLEF 2025 - Generative AI Detection