Snowflake is open sourcing the best embedding models in the world! 🚀🚀

They are now available open source in Hugging Face We are releasing it under the Apache 2 license so that it is easy for the OSS community to experiment with them freely.🎁🎁

These impressive models

Research rethinking a search pipeline leveraging passage-level feedback and entity representations. GRILL Lab. Also available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2306.17082

Congratulations 🎊🎉 to all members! More exciting work on LLMs and conversational search coming up. Finally, we are hiring PhD students and postdocs! Get in touch with PI Jeff Dalton ([email protected]) to discuss the positions. (6/6)

Visiting Professor Jeff Dalton of School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh & our #AI Group will discuss real-world challenges deploying generative LLMs in his #ECIR2024 Industry Day keynote (11 AM GMT): 'Generative AI in Finance: Automatic, Topic-based Summaries for Earnings Call Transcripts'
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What more could one ask for?! Some more good news. Our work received the best paper honorable mention award at ECIR 2024. I also got the outstanding reviewer award (a hat-trick!). ☺️🥳🤩 Jeff Dalton Iain Mackie GRILL Lab

My group, GRILL Lab at School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh has openings for multiple postdocs and PhD students to work on the future of interactive assistants, generative retrieval, and Large Language Models (LLMs). We're at #ecir2024 , so please come chat.

Exciting new work on scaling creation of personalized search sessions with LLMs. Congrats team! GRILL Lab.

I look forward to seeing you at #ecir2024 in Glasgow soon! As my current base, I know it well. I'm happy to share two food maps:
- A top 50 Food & Drink list just for ECIR maps.app.goo.gl/Ku8gGABAZfwVAL…
- My full list maps.app.goo.gl/hTZRzVaHWam3CQ…

Research welcome!

Hot off the GRILL!! The preprint of our ECIR 2024 full paper “DREQ: Document Re-Ranking Using Entity-based Query Understanding” is now available!! Code and data coming soon. Fun work with Iain Mackie and Jeff Dalton
ECIR2024 #ECIR2024
Link: tdy.lol/UVuZJ

A lot of fun being ACM CIKM 2023

This week I joined the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh). My GRILL Lab research group moved with me. We look forward to new adventures and exciting research. P.S. We're hiring for postdoc positions, stay tuned. 😉

Our team GRILL (GRILL Lab) came 2nd place in this year’s Amazon Science #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge! 🥈🥳

More details ➡️ grilllab.ai/2023-10-04-ale…
Check our our research paper ➡️ amazon.science/alexa-prize/pr…

w/ Jeff Dalton Iain Mackie Carlos Gemmell Federico Rossetto

Best of luck to our team of UofG Computing Science students who are competing for the $500k first prize in the finals of the Amazon Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge after winning last year!

Read the full story ➡️ gla.ac/3ExuDGA

Our team GRILL made it to finals of this year’s #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge, so proud! Stay tuned for more details about our research work coming soon.

UofG news: gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…
Amazon announcement: amazon.science/alexa-prize/ta…

w/ Jeff Dalton GRILL Lab Amazon Science

Exciting to see work our work using LLMs for creating synthetic datasets for conversational search. The simulation models generates data for discourse-aware query rewriting, new feedback-aware neural rankers, and more! Stay tuned for more exciting follow-up work to come!

Come and chat about our SIGIR 2024 poster on 'Generative Relevance Feedback with Language Models' w/ Shubham Chatterjee | শুভম চ্যাটার্জী Jeff Dalton (#18) #sigir2023 Glasgow IR Group GRILL Lab

GRF: arxiv.org/abs/2304.13157
Extension: arxiv.org/abs/2305.07477

Now live on Alexa in the US, 'hey Alexa, let's work together'. Congrats team!

Awesome listing to Carlos Gemmell talk about “ToolWriter: Question Specific Tool Synthesis for Tabular Data” w/ Jeff Dalton GRILL Lab University of Glasgow. Carlos is continuing to combine LLMs with tools at MetaAI Meta