Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, Evaluation - Full Professor in Computer Science at @UniPadova, leading @iiia_unipd #RussiaUkraineConflict #againstwar
Padua, Italy
Joined March 2015
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Nicola Ferro retweeted
📣📣 Registration to SIGIR 2025 is now open at:
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/regis…
Deadlines:
- Author: May 9
- Early: May 20
- Regular: June 13
- Late: July 18
You can ask for a VISA letter (sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/visa-…) and for Childcare service (sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/child…).
Nicola Ferro retweeted
🏨 🛏️ The #sigir2025 HOTELS are now available!
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/recom…
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/accom…
⚠️ WARNING Sunday 13 July there will be the Iron Maiden concert in Padua (the only Italian date). Accommodations are expected to fill up quickly, so be proactive in booking 🤟
Nicola Ferro retweeted
📣 📣 The #sigir2025 LiveRAG Challenge is open at:
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/live-…
Prizes:
- First Prize: $5000
- Second Prize: $3000
- Third Prize: $2000
Deadlines:
- Application submission deadline: February 24, 2025
More info? Ask [email protected].
Nicola Ferro retweeted
Next #sigir2025 calls:
1) SHORT PAPERS
2) RESOURCE & REPRODUCIBILITY PAPERS
3) PERSPECTIVES PAPERS
4) DEMO PAPERS
Deadlines AoE:
- Abstracts due: February 4, 2025
- Papers due: February 18, 2025 [mind the 2 weeks gap]
All calls at: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/
Nicola Ferro retweeted
@frrncl is offering is offering his talk for the Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award 2024
Bravo Nicola!
@clef_initiative
Nicola Ferro retweeted
📚 New book alert 🎉
Read "Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques," from our Director of Research @PolarBearby and Senior Manager of Applied Science at @Amazon and @Northeastern Faculty Member @elunca, in @TheOfficialACM here: bit.ly/4iFKMN3
Nicola Ferro retweeted
Are you eager to contribute to the success of SIGIR 2025? You can self-nominate yourself for becoming a PC member for #sigir2025 at
forms.gle/MdJrM8VsGUeHLUXm7
We will process the self-nominations at the time of reviewer invitations in EasyChair; do not expect an immediate reply
Nicola Ferro retweeted
📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for short papers
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-…
Share your research in IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more.
- Abstracts: Feb 4, 2025
- Short papers: Feb 18, 2025
- Notifications: Apr 4, 2025
Ask @ebrahim_bagheri @fhasibi @joelmmackenzie at [email protected]
Nicola Ferro retweeted
📣 📣 #sigir2025 doctoral consortium, discuss with seniors
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-…
Deadlines:
- Submission: Feb 27, 2025
- Notifications: Apr 4, 2025
- DC: Jul 13, 2025
More info? Ask @bemikelive, @behrouzmansoury, and Isabelle Moulinier at [email protected].
Humbled and deeply honored to receive the prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award for 2024! 🎉
Thanks to all the colleagues and the @clef_initiative community who made this possible.
On 9 Jan, my lecture on "Growing up in Cranfield, Maturing in Generative IR"
cilip.org.uk/members/group_c…
Nicola Ferro retweeted
📢Call for Papers! The QPP++ 2025 workshop on Query Performance Prediction in the era of LLMs w/ @guglielm0f, @maliannejadi, @frrncl, @JosianeMotheFr will be held @ecir2025 #ECIR2025 in Lucca, Italy🇮🇹.
🔗 Website: qppworkshop.github.io
🗓 Submit papers by 24 Feb 2025
#IR #NLP – at City of London, London
Thank you @elunca and @PolarBearby for making this book happen and pursuing it until the end: it is great to have un up-to-date book in the field!
Happy to have contributed, together with Maria Maistro, with a chapter on experimental evaluation 😄
Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques is now available in the ACM DL. It's been a long road. Massive thanks to our friends and colleagues who contributed to the book. Many thanks to the ACM team for their hard work on publishing the copy dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/…
Nicola Ferro retweeted
📣 📣 The #sigir2025 call for Low-Resource Environments is out at:
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/low-r…
Deadlines
- Submission: March 3, 2025
- Notification: March 31, 2025
Need more information? Ask our Chairs @CatherinChavula, @claclarke, and Doug Oard at [email protected]
Nicola Ferro retweeted
Habemus #Dagstuhl Report!
#Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys.
doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.14.5.…
Edited by @alansaid , @eva_zangerle, and yours truly - and written by many, many brilliant minds in our #recsys community. Too many to mention (pic here dagstuhl.de/24211)
@dagstuhl
Nicola Ferro retweeted
📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for workshops sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-…
Let's brainstorm on IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more.
- Submission: Jan 9, 2025
- Notification: Feb 6, 2025
- Workshop day: Jul 17, 2025
More info? Ask @kallumadi @zhaochun_ren at [email protected]
Nicola Ferro retweeted
📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for full papers
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-…
Share your research in IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more.
- Abstracts: Jan 16, 2025
- Full papers: Jan 23, 2025
- Notifications: Mar 28, 2025
More info? Ask @elunca @suzan @andrew_trotman at [email protected]
Happy and honored for the Best Resource Paper Award at #CIKM2024 to
pyPANTERA: A Python PAckage for Natural language obfuscaTion Enforcing pRivacy & Anonymization
joint work with Francesco L. De Faveri and @guglielm0f
doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679…
@cikm2024 @acmcikm @iiia_unipd
Nicola Ferro retweeted
Interested in exploring how to predict query difficulty in the era of LLMs?
@guglielm0f, @maliannejadi, @frrncl, @JosianeMotheFr, and I will be organising a workshop on Query Performance Prediction at @ecir2025 #ECIR2025
The call for papers will be announced soon—stay tuned! – at Hackney, London
Nicola Ferro retweeted
In search of a privacy tool to protect your queries? Proud to announce that our resource paper "pyPANTERA: A Python PAckage for Natural language obfuscaTion Enforcing pRivacy & Anonymization" has been accepted at #CIKM2024
W @Kekkodf7, @guglielm0f, @frrncl
github.com/Kekkodf/pypantera
Nicola Ferro retweeted
If you're attending @SIGIRConf, please joins us in the Congressional Ballroom tomorrow for:
👉🏽 DEI session @ 12.30pm (lunch included). We have a panel discussion with @UnderdogGeek, Clemencia Siro, @vanessa_murdock, Doug Oard & @frrncl.
👉🏽 Women in IR session @ 5:30pm.
#SIGIR2024