1980 | Full Professor of Natural Language Processing (@TMLeiden), @LIACS @UniLeiden | Lives in #Nijmegen | Mother of 2 | 👩🏻💻👩🏻🏫🤹♀️🌱 🎼
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Okay so, we just found that over 50 papers published at @Neurips 2025 have AI hallucinations
I don't think people realize how bad the slop is right now
It's not just that researchers from @GoogleDeepMind, @Meta, @MIT, @Cambridge_Uni are using AI - they allowed LLMs to generate hallucinations in their papers and didn't notice at all.
It's insane that these made it through peer review👇
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
18 Dec 2025
Happy to share that our paper "Generative Retrieval with Few-shot Indexing" has been accepted at #ECIR2026, with @arian_ask, @maliannejadi, @zhaochun_ren, Evangelos Kanoulas and @suzan.
A training-free generative retrieval method with strong performance and much faster indexing
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
26 Jul 2025
Ik wilde weten waarom Elon Musks chatbot Grok onlangs compleet ontspoorde, allerhande antisemitische stereotypen begon uit te braken, en zichzelf MechaHitler begon te noemen. Wat blijkt: het rabiate buitenbeentje onder de chatbots is gewoon zo getraind. nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/25/het…
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
16 Jul 2025
Huge congratulations to @macavaney on receiving the prestigious ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award in the research category! This well-deserved recognition highlights the excellence & impact of his work in the IR community 👏🎉#sigir2025
Cc @GlasgowCS @UofGlasgow @ACMSIGIR
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
15 Jul 2025
The #SIGIR2025 Best Paper just awarded to the WARP engine for fast late interaction!
Congrats to Luca Scheerer🎉 WARP was his @ETH_en MS thesis, completed while visiting us at @StanfordNLP.
Incidentally, it's the fifth Paper Award for a ColBERT paper since 2020!*
Luca did an incredible job leading and executing this. See the thread below for some relevant links.
*Though it's notable that this is actually the first among these awards with ColBERT(v1/v2) authors😅😅
14 Jul 2025
📢 If you’re at #SIGIR2025 this week, make sure to be at Luca Scheerer’s paper talk:
“WARP: An Efficient Engine for Multi-Vector Retrieval” (Wednesday 11am)
WARP makes PLAID, the famous ludicrously fast ColBERT engine, another 3x faster on CPUs.
With the usual ColBERT quality!
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
15 Jul 2025
Shameless self-promotion! Check out the book on #GenIR edited by @ryen_white and me (with 9 chapters written by highly distinguished scholars) at the @SpringerNature booth at #SIGIR2025 link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
14 Jul 2025
Honored to be recognized as one of the top reviewers @ACMSIGIR —and even more thrilled to meet BM25’s dad in person! #SIGIR2025
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
14 Jul 2025
Wow, honored to be named an Excellent PC Member at @SIGIRConf!
Glad my obsessive... I mean detailed... reviewing style paid off. 🤓✨
Huge thanks to the chairs for the recognition and congrats to all the other reviewers!
#SIGIR #SIGIR2025 #Award #BestReviewer
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
14 Jul 2025
A good thought-provoking panel at the start of @SIGIRConf 2025 #SIGIR2025 "Is Search Dead? The Rise or Demise of Search in the Era of LLMs". Many valuable points on the topic from an excellent team of panelists.
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
14 Jul 2025
At the opening of #sigir2025; @frrncl opened the conference with also an address from ACM President Yannis Ioannidis.
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
4 Jul 2025
** AZC-rellen
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#Loesje #Coevorden
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
1 Jul 2025
Suspect some of this has now been implemented with AI Overviews. Looking forward to more thoughts from IR professors at this year's European Summer School for Information Retrieval next week.
3 Jul 2024
LLMs for IR lecture delivered by @suzan at ESSIR 2024. Highlights the recent AI Overviews debacle. Suggests search engines need to pre-qualify the documents which are returned for reliability / credibility for AI Overviews
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
30 Jun 2025
The detailed program for #sigir2025 is available at:
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/detai…
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
26 May 2025
If, due to exceptional circumstances, you are not able to travel to Padua to present your paper, please contact the chairs at sigir2025-pp@dei.unipd.it on May 30th CEST the latest to discuss possible solutions.
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/inpre…
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
5 Apr 2025
In only two years LLM-based relevance assessment has gone from rejections because it’s crazy and dangerous to rejections because it is boring and standard.
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
2 May 2025
ModernBERT 🤜 🤛 ColBERT = ModernColBERT
ModernColBERT is the latest state-of-the-art text-based late interaction model by @LightOnIO.
- Based on the ModernBERT-base encoder
- Outperforms ColBERT-small on the BEIR retrieval benchmark
Here’s a quick notebook I threw together covering how you can use ModernColBERT with @weaviate_io:
github.com/weaviate/recipes/…
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
9 Apr 2025
ECIR 2025 was a great success. Hoping to make a memorable #ECIR2026 with the dream team of @suzan and @zhaochun_ren … We will be preparing to welcoming all of us to Delft.
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We're kicking off the Search Futures workshop @ecir2025. Starting with a talk on combining search and recommendation by Jujia Zhao, @zhaochun_ren and @suzan
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🔔 We’re now at the Closing Speech of the #ECIR2025 main conference, by the conference chairs @ntonellotto @fmnardini @fabreetseo 🙌
A heartfelt thank you to all participants for making this edition unforgettable — see you at #ECIR2026 ! 💙
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Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️ retweeted
8 Apr 2025
.@IAugenstein gave a great keynote as Karen Spärck Jones Award 2024 winner at #ecir2025. This is her outlook of where to go to next.
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