
Associate Professor @uofg Researcher @thomsonreuters. Interested in Information Retrieval
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2015
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Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
We introduce a novel framework, QSD-QPP, that leverages query space proximity for both pre- and post-retrieval query performance prediction.
Special thanks to my co-authors: @sadjadeb @NegarEmpr @sara_slmt @shirin_ssalehi_ @khodabakhshmary @FattaneZ @ebrahim_bagheri
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
Dr. Zarrinkalam from @GuelphEng is transforming social media ad targeting through the new "learn-to-rank" framework, which will factor the evolving nature of human interests into producing more accurate and engaging ads. Read more: uoguelph.ca/ceps/news/2024/0…
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
Reminder: the 37th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence takes place at @uofg May 27-31, 2024. The Computer and Robot Vision conference is included. SRI researchers @ishtiaqueSIA and @GuhaShion are giving the Day 2 keynote on responsible AI.
🔗caiac.ca/en/conferences/cana…
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
You might be dying to know what I have been up to while not attending #ECIR2024 this week, other than reading the tweets from the conference? have a watch to find out 🕶️
instagram.com/reel/C47_H-Igj…
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
Replying to @NegarEmpr
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
Today I will be presenting “ LaQuE: Enabling Entity Search at Scale” in entity and ml session @ecir2024 at 11.
Join us if you are looking for some resources for entity retrieval task!
#ECIR2024
W/ @amin_bigdelii and @ebrahim_bagheri – at Glasgow, Scotland
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
I will be giving a talk on Gender Fairness in Information Retrieval systems this Friday at 10am EST.
Sign up and join us if you are interested!
meetup.com/ucl-wi-meetup-gro…
📢 #WITalk with Negar Arabzadeh (@NegarEmpr)
📕Gender Fairness in Information Retrieval Systems
🗓️ 2 February, Friday, 2024 at 4 PM BST
✍️Do not forget to sign up: meetup.com/ucl-wi-meetup-gro…
#WITalk @ucl_wi_group @ai_ucl @uclcs
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
#Regulation is a must within the #AI space - My thoughts on the new #GenerativeAI #ResponsibleAI guidelines from the Canadian Government on @BNNBloomberg #AIEthics #AppliedAI @NSERC_CRSNG @researchTMU @NSERC_RAI bnnbloomberg.ca/video/regula…
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
Come join me in the poster session today @SIGIRConf! I will be happy to talk about our paper “Quantifying Ranker Coverage of Different Query Subspaces” w/ @amin_bigdelii @radin_hrad and @ebrahim_bagheri
#SIGIR2023
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
#ResponsibleAI event was rewarding. Thanks to all who made it a rich experience @NSERC_CRSNG @NSERC_RAI @c_a_i_a_c @CIFAR_News @cephaloponderer @n_demarcellis @Eleni_Stroulia @SebastienGambs @NatMayerhofer @RahimiSamira @bfung123 @vavacolor @SashaMTL @BorealisAI @mathias_lecuyer
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
Opportunity for travel bursaries for students from equity-seeking groups to attend the Responsible AI conference in Montreal. Please RT for reach @NSERC_CRSNG @researchTMU @CIFAR_News @SSHRC_CRSH @TorontoSRI

ALT Responsible AI (RAI) would like to encourage participation from self-identifying members of equity seeking groups. With financial support from AlJ, six (6) travel bursaries valued at $500 (plus registration costs for the two-day event) are available to cover costs associated with attending RAI events at the Canadian Al 2023 conference in Montreal on June 8 and 9. Please apply by May 1 through: forms.gle/X79bkz991b65PU458 For inquiries, please contact [email protected]
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
#CfP Call for papers for the #IJCAI2023 9th International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks - Special Edition on Deep Learning Methods for Social Media Mining closes on 26 April 2023!
📣predictive models for actionable insights
👉2023.maisonworkshop.org/comm…
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
UMass CIIR will be well-represented at #SIGIR2023. See a list of contributions here: ciir.cs.umass.edu/node/681
They are mostly exciting papers related to dense retrieval and retrieval-enhanced machine learning (REML).
Expect more information about each paper in this thread...
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
In non-ChatGPT news... AToMiC (Authoring Tools for Multimedia Content) is a new take image-text search led by @mattjustram that will debut at TREC 2023! Check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2304.01961 and the track website: github.com/trec-atomic/atomi…
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
Are you attending #ECIR2023 today? Are you interested in gender fairness in IR? We look forward seeing you in our tutorial on “Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems” @ecir2023
W/ @NegarEmpr @shirin_ssalehi_ @MortezaZihayat @ebrahim_bagheri
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
#ECIR2023 banquet night with the great people. 😇
@NegarEmpr @amin_bigdelii @sara_slmt @FattaneZ @aminvenv @HarrieOos
Tag others please. :)
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
Replying to @NegarEmpr
@NegarEmpr is presenting their work with @claclarke and others entitled Shallow Pooling for Sparse Labels. #ecir2023
Fattane Zarrinkalam retweeted
I have a vacancy for a PhD student on transparency and explainability of conversational agents (very relevant in the current age of generative #LLMs!)
The position at @LIACS @UniLeiden is fully funded and part of the LESSEN project ⬇️
universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu… #ecir2023 #NLProc
































