Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️
@arjen
Computer scientist #CS & entrepreneur, Information Retrieval #IR and Databases #DB Indie music 🎸 Radboud University, Nijmegen & Spinque, Utrecht NL #nobot 🌉 bridged from ⁂ follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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]
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
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!
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
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! https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real What happened to the fight with SEO, have you given up?
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!
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 😁🤗
Voor wie nog enigszins geloofd in de illusie van "Nederland Gidsland", even de werkelijke cijfers over de stand van de emancipatie van de vrouw...
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")
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!
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]
Laura Caspari presented CoRECT to improve benchmarking RAG experiments while considering dimensionality and quantisation. https://github.com/padas-lab-de/CoRECT
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: https://github.com/webis-de/archive-query-log (Followup on the earlier SIGIR paper.) #ECIR2026
@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]
Now Yiqun Liu introducing Tetsuya Sakai as the Keith van Rijsbergen award winner! What an excellent choice 🤗 #ECIR2026
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]
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]
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]