Publications (105)
2026
10 publications- Overview of the TREC 2025 Tip-of-the-Tongue track
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.20671 · 2026
- Evaluating the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Learned Sparse Retrieval with the lsr_benchmark
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 528-543 · 2026
- Formalized Information Needs Improve Large-Language-Model Relevance Judgments
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04140 · 2026
- Evaluating Information Retrieval Models Along Time: The LongEval Lab at CLEF 2026
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 345-353 · 2026
- Multilingual and Domain-Agnostic Tip-of-the-Tongue Query Generation for Simulated Evaluation
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.21096 · 2026
- Overview of PAN 2026: Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection, Text Watermarking, Multi-author Writing Style Analysis, Generative Plagiarism Detection, and Reasoning Trajectory …
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 225-232 · 2026
- Relaxed Term Matching for Neural Axiomatic Diagnostics
2026
- Talmud-IR: A Talmud-Inspired Interface for Discussing RAG Response Quality
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 148-153 · 2026
- The Chairs for Databases and Information Systems at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Datenbank-Spektrum, 1-9 · 2026
- The Third International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS)
Lecture notes in computer science · 2026
2025
26 publications- Overview of the “Voight-Kampff” generative AI authorship verification task at PAN and ELOQUENT 2025
CEUR-WS · 2025
- Lightning IR: Straightforward Fine-tuning and Inference of Transformer-based Language Models for Information Retrieval
2025
- Overview of Touché 2025: Argumentation Systems
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-ranking
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Corpus Subsampling: Estimating the Effectiveness of Neural Retrieval Models on Large Corpora
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- How Child-Friendly is Web Search? An Evaluation of Relevance vs. Harm
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Large Language Model Relevance Assessors Agree With One Another More Than With Human Assessors
2025
- ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2025: The Fourth Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
2025
- Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-ranking with Cross-Encoders
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation
2025
- Corpora performance prediction
QPP++ 2025 · 2025
- Overview of PAN 2025: Generative AI Detection, Multilingual Text Detoxification, Multi-author Writing Style Analysis, and Generative Plagiarism Detection
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Overview of PAN 2025: Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection, Multilingual Text Detoxification, Multi-author Writing Style Analysis, and Generative Plagiarism Detection
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- TIREx Tracker: The Information Retrieval Experiment Tracker
2025
- User simulation in practice: Lessons learned from three shared tasks
ACM SIGIR Forum 59 (2), 1-18 · 2025
- LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Simplified Longitudinal Retrieval Experiments: A Case Study on Query Expansion and Document Boosting
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Axioms for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2025
- Counterfactual Query Rewriting to Use Historical Relevance Feedback
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- The Second International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS)
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Web-Scale Retrieval Experimentation with chatnoir-pyterrier
Lecture notes in computer science · 2025
- Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data
2025
- Overview of the Plagiarism Detection Task at PAN 2025
ArXiv.org · 2025
- Team OpenWebSearch Team OpenWebSearch at LongEval: Using Historical Data for Scientific Search
Sl: CEUR · 2025
- Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections
2025
- WOWS-EVAL 2025: Efficient Baselines for Automated Relevance Label Transfer
2025
2024
22 publications- Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval
2024
- Overview of pan 2024: Multi-author writing style analysis, multilingual text detoxification, oppositional thinking analysis, and generative ai authorship verification condensed …
International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European · 2024
- The open web index: Crawling and indexing the web for public use
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 130-143 · 2024
- Overview of PAN 2024: Multi-author Writing Style Analysis, Multilingual Text Detoxification, Oppositional Thinking Analysis, and Generative AI Authorship Verification
Lecture notes in computer science · 2024
- Systematic Evaluation of Neural Retrieval Models on the Touché 2020 Argument Retrieval Subset of BEIR
2024
- Analyzing Adversarial Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Relevance Models
Lecture notes in computer science · 2024
- QPPTK@ TIREx: Simplified Query Performance Prediction for Ad-Hoc Retrieval Experiments.
WOWS@ ECIR, 50-62 · 2024
- Team openwebsearch at CLEF 2024: Longeval
Sl: CEUR · 2024
- Webis at TREC 2024: biomedical generative retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, and tip-of-the-tongue tracks
33th International Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2024), NIST Special · 2024
- Investigating the Effects of Sparse Attention on Cross-Encoders
Lecture notes in computer science · 2024
- Report on the 8th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2024) at CHIIR 2024
ACM SIGIR Forum · 2024
- The First International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS)
Lecture notes in computer science · 2024
- Team openwebsearch at CLEF 2024: Quantumclef
Sl: CEUR · 2024
- ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2024: The Third Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
2024
- Report on the 1st International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS 2024) at ECIR 2024
ACM SIGIR Forum · 2024
- Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework
2024
- Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024
ACM SIGIR Forum · 2024
- The Eighth Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI’24)
2024
- Classification of Shared Tasks Used in Teaching
2024
- DeepCT-enhanced Lexical Argument Retrieval
2024
- Teaching information retrieval with a shared task across universities: first steps and findings
LWDA 2024: Lernen, Wissen, Daten, Analysen, 23–25 September 2024, Würzburg · 2024
- WOWS 2024: Workshop on Open Web Search 2024, Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Open Web Search co-located with the 46th European Conference on Information …
Sl: CEUR · 2024
2023
17 publications- The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform
2023
- Continuous Integration for Reproducible Shared Tasks with TIRA.io
Lecture notes in computer science · 2023
- Report on the Dagstuhl Seminar on Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education
ACM SIGIR Forum · 2023
- The Infinite Index: Information Retrieval on Generative Text-To-Image Models
2023
- SemEval-2023 Task 5: Clickbait Spoiling
2023
- A Large-Scale Dataset for Known-Item Question Performance Prediction.
QPP++@ ECIR, 13-19 · 2023
- Overcoming methodological challenges in information retrieval and recommender systems through awareness and education
Bauer et al.[2023a], 51-67 · 2023
- The Archive Query Log: Mining Millions of Search Result Pages of Hundreds of Search Engines from 25 Years of Web Archives
2023
- Overview of PAN 2023: Authorship Verification, Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis, Profiling Cryptocurrency Influencers, and Trigger Detection
Lecture notes in computer science · 2023
- Overview of Touché 2023: Argument and Causal Retrieval
Lecture notes in computer science · 2023
- Bootstrapped nDCG Estimation in the Presence of Unjudged Documents
Lecture notes in computer science · 2023
- On Stance Detection in Image Retrieval for Argumentation
2023
- Report on the 1st Workshop on Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks (QPP++ 2023) at ECIR 2023
ACM SIGIR Forum · 2023
- Open web search at longeval 2023: Reciprocal rank fusion on automatically generated query variants
Sl: CEUR · 2023
- Shared Tasks as Tutorials: A Methodical Approach
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2023
- Webis at TREC 2023: Tip-of-the-Tongue track.
TREC · 2023
- Stance-Aware Re-Ranking for Non-factual Comparative Queries
2023
2022
12 publications- Clickbait Spoiling via Question Answering and Passage Retrieval
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2022
- Overview of Touché 2022: Argument Retrieval
Lecture notes in computer science · 2022
- Using Keyqueries to Reduce Misinformation in Health-Related Search Results.
ROMCIR@ ECIR, 1-10 · 2022
- Axiomatic Retrieval Experimentation with ir_axioms
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval · 2022
- Sparse Pairwise Re-ranking with Pre-trained Transformers
2022
- Noise-Reduction for Automatically Transferred Relevance Judgments
Lecture notes in computer science · 2022
- SCAI-QReCC Shared Task on Conversational Question Answering
2022
- How Train–Test Leakage Affects Zero-Shot Retrieval
Lecture notes in computer science · 2022
- The Power of Anchor Text in the Neural Retrieval Era
Lecture notes in computer science · 2022
- Webis at TREC 2022: Deep Learning and Health Misinformation.
TREC · 2022
- City of Disguise: A Query Obfuscation Game on the ClueWeb
Lecture notes in computer science · 2022
- Overview of Touché 2022: Argument Retrieval: Argument Retrieval
44th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2022, 339-346 · 2022
2021
10 publications- Towards axiomatic explanations for neural ranking models
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of · 2021
- Overview of Touché 2021: Argument Retrieval
Lecture notes in computer science · 2021
- CopyCat: Near-Duplicates Within and Between the ClueWeb and the Common Crawl
2021
- Webis at TREC 2021: Deep Learning, Health Misinformation, and Podcasts Tracks.
TREC · 2021
- The Information Retrieval Anthology
2021
- Efficient Query Obfuscation with Keyqueries
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence · 2021
- Web Archive Analytics
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021
- Learning to Rank Arguments with Feature Selection.
CLEF (Working Notes) · 2021
- The Impact of Main Content Extraction on Near-Duplicate Detection
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021
- Webis at TREC 2021: Deep Learning Track
2021
2020
7 publications- Overview of Touché 2020: Argument Retrieval
Lecture notes in computer science · 2020
- Comparative Web Search Questions
2020
- Sampling Bias Due to Near-Duplicates in Learning to Rank
2020
- The Effect of Content-Equivalent Near-Duplicates on the Evaluation of Search Engines
Lecture notes in computer science · 2020
- The Impact of Negative Relevance Judgments on NDCG
2020
- Webis at TREC 2020: Health misinformation track
2020
- A Search Engine for Police Press Releases to Double-Check the News
Lecture notes in computer science · 2020
2019
1 publication- Webis at TREC 2019: Decision Track.
Text REtrieval Conference · 2019
