The CIIR Talk Series is an initiative for researchers and practitioners working on information retrieval and related disciplines to present their work. Presentations will be held biweekly on Fridays from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. (with some exceptions) for the Spring 2025 semester. The presentations will be online (unless noted that they are in person) and open to the public. The presentations will also be shown in CS 151 for those on the UMass Amherst campus.
Faculty Host: Hamed Zamani
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You can view prior CIIR Talk Series presentations on our YouTube Channel.
Spring 2025 Schedule of Speakers
Friday - February 28, 2025 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EST (North American Eastern Standard Time)
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Friday - March 14, 2025 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
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Friday - March 28, 2025 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
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Friday - April 11, 2025 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
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Friday - April 25, 2025 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
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Friday - May 9, 2025 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: TBD
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Fall 2024 Schedule of Speakers
Friday - September 20, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: Data, methods, and evaluation for knowledge-grounded conversational recommendation systems
Speaker: Julian McAuley, UC San Diego
Friday - October 4, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: Rethinking Retrieval in the Era of LLM
Speaker: Eunsol Choi, New York University
Friday - October 18, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: Flexible Representations with Learned Sparse Retrieval
Speaker: Andrew Yates, University of Amsterdam
Friday - November 1, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: Interactive Language Agents: Training, Evaluation, and Interface
Speaker: Alane Suhr, UC Berkeley
Friday - November 15, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EST (North American Eastern Standard Time)
Talk Title: Toward Conversational and interactive IR
Speaker: Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal
Friday - December 13, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EST (North American Eastern Standard Time)
Talk Title: Towards Empathetic Conversational Recommender Systems
Speaker: Zhaochun Ren, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Fall 2023 CIIR Talk Series Speaker Archives