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Myriam Heyens (ook nog steeds op X) @myr55.bsky.social · 16d

Omdat niet iedereen een abonnement heeft op de Volkskrant hierbij een screenshot van deze rake column.

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Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Myrthe Reuver @myrthereuver.bsky.social · 29d

Last week, I defended my dissertation "𝘈 𝘗𝘶𝘻𝘻𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. *the* moment: #PhDone! 🎓✨🎉

I couldn’t have asked for better supervisors than Antske Fokkens & @suzanv.bsky.social 💖

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ECIR 2026 @ecir2026.eu · Sep 1

The organization of #ECIR2026 has started! We just had our first call with all track chairs. With the calls now finalized, online and distributed across mailing lists, we’re moving on to the rest of the conference preparation!

@ecir2026.eu
📍 Delft, 30 Mar – 2 Apr 2026
👉 ecir2026.eu

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · Aug 25

Announcing the call for papers for #ECIR2026 IR-for-Good Track: ecir2026.eu/calls/call-f...

Abstracts due: Oct 21
Papers due: Oct 28

This year, we are revamping the #IR4Good track as a core track at the conference. A short thread on the changes we are introducing this year... 🧵
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IR for Good

call for ir for good papers

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Suzan Verberne @suzanv.bsky.social · Aug 10

I was interviewed for the Dutch newspaper NRC. The article (about Grok) came out 2 weeks ago. Yesterday (back from vacation) I and found the paper copy

Kudos to Toon Beemsterboer who asked critical questions and gave me space to explain the steps of LLM-chatbot training

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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ECIR 2026 @ecir2026.eu · Aug 2

📢 The website for ECIR 2026 is live – and so is our first call for papers!

🔗 ecir2026.eu
📍 Delft, The Netherlands
🗓️ March 30 – April 1, 2026 (main conference)
🎓 Tutorials: March 29
🛠 Workshops: April 2

ECIR2026

The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) is Europe's premier forum for cutting-edge research in

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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · Jul 16

Today's MetaROR paper discusses "the use of document data networks to control the topic clustering of a science map" with "rigorous methodology" & "careful presentation".

Reviewers consider it "a valuable contribution to the literature", and provide the authors detailed feedback.

👇 Read on MetaROR

Use of diverse data sources to control which topics emerge in a science map

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acmsigir-ap.bsky.social @acmsigir-ap.bsky.social · Jul 7

🎉 Exciting news for #SIGIRAP2025! This year, we're continuing our tradition of offering both face-to-face and remote participation options. Remote presentations are fully supported! Join us to participate from anywhere! 📡 #HybridConference

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Suzan Verberne @suzanv.bsky.social · Jul 1

Gisteren was ik te zien in het SBS6-programma Hart van Nederland over het gebruik van chatbots voor stemadvies. Ik had OpenVerkiezingen nog even geplugd maar dat heeft de uitzending niet gehaald :)

www.hartvannederland.nl/tech/ai/arti...

Stemadvies van ChatGPT? Een kwart van de Nederlanders staat ervoor open

Mensen solliciteren, maken muziek en boeken zelfs complete vakanties via chatbots zoals ChatGPT of Gemini. Deze AI-hulpmiddelen zijn bezig met een gestage opmars en lijken ook meer en meer gebruikt te...

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Lisa Westerveld 🌱 @lisawesterveld.bsky.social · Jun 13

Politieke prioriteiten in plaatjes.

Links de zaal waarin het debat over gehandicaptenbeleid zou plaatsvinden.

Foto van een lege Commissiezaal in de Tweede Kamer: een grijze zaal met een halfronde cirkel met tafels. Links in een hoek zit in, aan de andere kant van de tafel staan Thibault en Thijs. Foto is wat van een afstand genomen zodat de leegte goed in beeld is.

Screenshot van de site van de NOS: met Yesilgoz, Van der Plas en Van Vroonhoven die worden geïnterviewd door diverse journalisten met gekleurde microfoons. Daaronder de kop: asielportefeuille verdeeld over drie ministers van VVD, NSC en BBB.

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 6

#dir2025, the 22nd Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop will take place at Radboud University Nijmegen on 27 October 2025!

https://informagus.nl/dir2025/

DIR 2025

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David Michels @davidmichels.bsky.social · Jun 5

Mag hopen dat ook zijn rabiate racisme en fascisme samenwerking in de weg staan.

Deskundigen: karakter van 'controlfreak' Wilders staat samenwerking in de weg

Wilders zegt zelf dat hij de stekker eruit trok vanwege het gebrek aan daadkracht op het thema migratie. Deskundigen en een oud-PVV'er wijten het ook aan zijn 'wantrouwende karakter'.

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Suzan Verberne @suzanv.bsky.social · May 26

If, due to exceptional circumstances, you are not able to travel to Padua for #SIGIR2025 to present your paper, please contact us at [email protected] on May 30th the latest to discuss possible solutions.

sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/inpresence-p...

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · May 2

Israël is bezig met de totale vernietiging van de bevolking van Gaza. Wie niet sterft door de bommen, sterft door uithongering. Wie het waagt Palestijnen te hulp te schieten, wordt gebombardeerd. Het niet ingrijpen van de wereld is een politieke keuze. Wat een moreel failliet.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 2

Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta

Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international waters A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists for Gaza has been bombed by drones and disabled while in international waters off Malta as it headed towards the Palestinian territory, its have organisers said. “At 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship came under direct attack in international waters,” the group said in a statement. Continue reading...

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Marieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social · May 2

Misschien heb je dit nieuws gemist, want het stond slechts als kort berichtje in de NOS-liveblog: een schip met burgers die hulp naar Gaza wilden brengen, is in internationale wateren beschoten door drones. Greta Thunberg zou ook meevaren.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Gaza humanitarian aid ship ‘bombed by drones’ in waters off Malta

Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international waters

www.theguardian.com

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Suzan Verberne @suzanv.bsky.social · Apr 22

Of course.
But I hadn’t understood your message was about that concern. It seemed to be about genAI not being impressive.

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Suzan Verberne @suzanv.bsky.social · Apr 21

In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) the sources are retrieved before generation. The parametric knowledge is fixed, but external sources are retrieved to base the response on. This helps the user verify the information. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retriev... Example:

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Suzan Verberne @suzanv.bsky.social · Apr 21

In retrieval-augmented generation, the LLM relies on a retrieval engine to provide sources based on which the answer is generated. These sources come from an index external to the LLM.

GPT-4o uses RAG for quite some request types and shows the sources in the output.

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · Oct 4

Ali Satvaty, Suzan Verberne, Fatih Turkmen
Undesirable Memorization in Large Language Models: A Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02650

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · Oct 16

I-Fan Lin, Faegheh Hasibi, Suzan Verberne
Generate then Refine: Data Augmentation for Zero-shot Intent Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01953

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arxiv cs.IR @arxiv-cs-ir.bsky.social · Oct 17

Yumeng Wang, Xiuying Chen, Suzan Verberne
QUIDS: Query Intent Generation via Dual Space Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12400

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · Oct 17

Amin Abolghasemi, Leif Azzopardi, Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Maarten de Rijke, Suzan Verberne
Evaluation of Attribution Bias in Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12380

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · Mar 20

I-Fan Lin, Faegheh Hasibi, Suzan Verberne
SPILL: Domain-Adaptive Intent Clustering based on Selection and Pooling with Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15351

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arxiv cs.IR @arxiv-cs-ir.bsky.social · Apr 10

Jujia Zhao, Wenjie Wang, Chen Xu, Xiuying Wang, Zhaochun Ren, Suzan Verberne
Unifying Search and Recommendation: A Generative Paradigm Inspired by Information Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06714

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