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Damiano Spina
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PhD in Computer Science. Information Retrieval, Human-AI Cooperation, Evaluation.
@rmitcomputing.bsky.social | @admscentre.org.au | @internetobservatory.org.au
🤸🏼‍♂️Contramestre Camaleão, Capoeira ACDP.
🪘Percussionist @ Wombatuque

📍Naarm, AU
Lucky to witness #IRRJ editor-in-chief @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy signing a copy of the first edition of @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy for Ian Soboroff, author of the paper “Don’t Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments” in the volume.

#SIGIR2025

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July 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Join us at the #SIGIR2025 poster session today and check out Jiaman He’s poster #10 on “Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data”

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July 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I’ve just started my 3-year appointment as a Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (#ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.

speakers.acm.org/speakers/spi...

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June 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval #CHIIR2025 are now available at the ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
May 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Can #LLMs perform basic numeracy tasks? How do we find out?

If you're attending #NAACL2025 drop by to Session B (11:00 - 12:30) to check out our poster and say hi to Rahmad Mahendra:
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

w/ L. Cavedon & @karinv.bsky.social

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April 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
March 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Bonus of attending our @rmitcomputing.bsky.social CHAI Human Information REtrieval weekly research catch-ups in person 😝

Thank you @marwahalaofi.com, Nuha, Kaixin and Huiweng for the Saudi and Chinese treats! 🍫🍬
February 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
pre-print will be available soon :)
February 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
In this multidisciplinary collaboration between CAIDE UoM and @admscentre.org.au, we examine the ethical question: ‘What is a good search engine?
February 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Improvised social mixer after a long Day 2! #sigirap2024 #naarm @olegzendel.bsky.social
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December 11, 2024 at 10:26 AM
We managed to squeeze in an improvised quick visit to the State Library of Victoria during the lunch break. #sigirap2024 #naarm #melbourne
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December 11, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Excellent keynote by Peter Bailey from Canva about how to build a more cost-effective online & offline experimentation framework #sigirap2024 #melbourne #naarm @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Prof. Julian Thomas introducing the @internetobservatory.org.au research infrastructure project
December 3, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Attending the @admscentre.org.au “Are Fair Elections Possible in the Age of AI?” event, with a very interesting program to tackle one of the most important challenges of our current times.
December 3, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Our AI-powered customised chatbot #Walert ("possum" in Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung languages) won the EIP-RACE Demonstrator Competition last week!

The support we received from the Information in Society EIP and the RACE Hub helped us improving the evaluation of RAGs.

More info: bit.ly/walert
December 2, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Last week #RMIT and #ACCIONA have signed a partnership agreement to drive innovation and build skills for a sustainable future.

I had the privilege to present to senior executives the outcomes of our collaboration for AI integration and optimisation.

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December 1, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Thanks for the tip, Matt! In mine it appears as "Menu Bar Extension" under the General settings...
November 25, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Very similar trend down under 🐨
November 20, 2024 at 1:46 AM