Negar Arabzadeh

🥳🥳🥳Super excited that our paper “Context-Aware Query Term Difficulty Estimation for Performance Prediction” won the best short paper honourable mention award @ecir2024 🤩 W/ Abbas Saleminezhad, @ebrahim_bagheri and Soosan Beheshti #ECIR2024

Excited to attend #SIGIR2025 next week 🇮🇹! Here’s a a bookmark of all cool #UWaterloo papers to catch🧐👀 🔎 including 4 papers that I’ll be delivering as my final #SIGIR as a PhD 🎓🫡 Can’t wait to see you @SIGIRConf !

Wrapping up my phd with some good news! “Benchmarking LLM-based Relevance Judgment Methods” has been accepted to @SIGIRConf (Resource Track) w/ @claclarke We benchmark point-wise, pair-wise, and nuggets-based relevance judgments with LLMs. bit.ly/3R2LHe0 #SIGIR2025

Come join us in our workshop at MANTEGNA HALL 2 @SIGIRConf to discuss about “R” in RAG! #SIGIR2025

Our NeurIPS IGLU Competition wrap-up is now a resource paper at #SIGIR2025! If you're into interactive agents and grounded language understanding, come visit Poster 96 today @SIGIRConf and learn more about the IGLU task! 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.08898

📢I will be presenting "Benchmarking LLM-based Relevance Judgment Methods" in Palladio room in "LLM for IR" session @SIGIRConf w/ @claclarke in 15 minutes! Join us to talk about how to benchmark different llm-based relevance judgements #SIGIR2025 arxiv.org/abs/2504.12558

Come talk to me and Drake about Prompt Performance Prediction today in the poster session at #SIGIR2025 with “VAP3: Variation-Aware Prompt Performance Prediction”

Honored to be recognized as one of the top reviewers @ACMSIGIR —and even more thrilled to meet BM25’s dad in person! #SIGIR2025

Come find me at the poster session now at #SIGIR2025! Let’s chat about LLM-based relevance judgments! @SIGIRConf

🎓 I successfully defended my PhD thesis today! Endless thanks to @claclarke for trusting in me and being the best supervisor I could ask for. Grateful to my committee and heartfelt thanks to all my collaborators over the past 4 years — I couldn’t have done it without you!

Excited to share that our paper "Query Performance Prediction using Relevance Judgments Generated by Large Language Models" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), with @NegarEmpr, @arian_ask, @maliannejadi, @mdr. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

🚨 Deadline Extended! The submission deadline for the IR-RAG Workshop @SIGIRConf has been extended to May 5, 2025! 🗓️✍️ If you're working on Retrieval-Augmented Generation, feel free to check our website lnkd.in/dx93i-6h #SIGIR2025 #LLMs #RAG

Very pleased to host the next #SIGIR Virtual Forum Talk by @lauradietz99 This work received Best Paper Award @ACMSIGIR 2024 Free registration, please sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… @suzan @claclarke @UnderdogGeek @NegarEmpr

Life update: I’m beyond excited to be joining @UCBerkeley Sky Computing Lab as a postdoc working with @matei_zaharia! 🤩 This is a dream come true moment for me, and I can’t wait for the adventure ahead. See you soon, sunny California! ☀️ #Postdoc #PhDLife

📢If you are attending #WSDM2025 , join us for our tutorial on "Query Performance Prediction: Theory, Techniques, and Applications" 📍 Location: Konferenzraum 15 @WSDMSocial 🕣 Time: 8:30 AM CET w/ @ChuanMg @maliannejadi @ebrahim_bagheri #SIGIR #LLMs