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

🚨 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

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 💖

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

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... 🧵 1/

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/...

📢 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

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

🎉 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

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...

Politieke prioriteiten in plaatjes. Links de zaal waarin het debat over gehandicaptenbeleid zou plaatsvinden.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mert Yazan, Suzan Verberne, Frederik Situmeang Improving RAG for Personalization with Author Features and Contrastive Examples https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08745

3 days left to respond to this PhD vacancy with Niki van Stein: PhD Candidate in Explainable NLP for Regulatory Compliance Detection www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... Part of the ICAI lab AI4Oversight, collaboration with TNO and 4 inspectorates, together with 5 other PhD students

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bereid je voor op komende dinsdag 16:00 uur. BOOS over alternatieve "genezers" die helende retreats aanbieden.

OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

Met veel interesse en waardering geluisterd naar Sylvana Simons. Over haar leven voor en na de politiek, het bewaken van (persoonlijke) grenzen, en de realiteit achter het hardnekkige frame v/d ‘angry black woman’. Een boeiend gesprek met nog veel meer inzichten. Aanrader! www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

Thread by someone who knows what they’re talking about

We are currently preparing the list of PC members for #SIGIR2025. We are looking to expand and broaden the list, so you can self-nominate yourself for becoming a PC member: forms.gle/MdJrM8VsGUeH... Please forward this to any people who might be interested in this. sigir2025.dei.unipd.it

SCOLIA 2025, the 1st Intl. Workshop on Scholarly Information Access, succeeds our BIR series. Join us at ECIR 2025 in Lucca to explore IR, NLP, and Scientometrics. CfP below! sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/... #informationretrieval #scientometrics #ai #nlp @suzanv.bsky.social @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

Currently writing up a report on the IR summer school that we organized here in Amsterdam. The lectures are publicly available and provide a great introduction to anyone interested in IR. Thought I'd share: 2024.essir.eu/talks

The #TREC2024 conference just started. Turns out that BM25 is turning 30 🥳 #TREC #TREC24