Chief Researcher AI/IR, Technology Innovation Institute
Haifa, Israel
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Kudos to the winners and a big thanks to @mounialalmas, liane lewin-eytan and the best paper selection committee !
🏆 Congratulations to the Best Paper Award winner at #TheWebConf2026!
🥇 From Retrieval to Generation: Unifying External and Parametric Knowledge for Medical Question Answering
👏 Congratulations to the authors on this outstanding achievement!
💰 Prize: US$1,000
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🎤 The final keynote of #TheWebConf2026 is now live!
Join us in the Plenary Hall for:
Towards AI That Understands the Human World
Speaker: @pascalefung - AMI Labs & The Hong Kong University
Session Chair: @Yoellem
Don't miss this inspiring keynote!
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🎉 We're live!
The Opening Ceremony of #TheWebConf2026 is now underway with General Chairs @Yoellem and Hakim Hacid welcoming our global community.
Join us for an exciting program featuring:
🎤 Keynotes
📄 Posters
💬 Panels
🏆 Awards
…and much more!
See you in the Plenary Hall
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🚀 #TheWebConf2026 in numbers
📄 3,370 submissions
🏆 678 accepted papers
📈 20.1% Research Track acceptance rate
Over the coming days, attendees will explore:
🎤 319 oral presentations
📌 359 posters
📅 64 research sessions
Welcome to an exciting week of Web research!
Made with AI
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🚀 #TheWebConf2026 is officially underway!
We're kicking off the conference with an exciting morning of Tutorials and Workshops across multiple virtual halls.
📅 Check the full schedule and join your sessions
Have a great first day—we'll see you online!
#TheWebConf2026
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📚 The Main and Companion volumes of the #TheWebConf2026 proceedings are now available in the ACM Digital Library:
🔥 Main volume: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/1…
🔥 Companion volume dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/1…
#TheWebConf #WebResearch #ACM #ComputerScience
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Don't miss this uniqie opportunity, submit an abstract before the deadline tomorrow and you will still have a week to polish your submission!
🚨 ACM The Web Conference 2026 deadlines are just around the corner! Don’t miss your chance to submit your work!
📅 Research/Industry: Abs Sept 30, Papers Oct 7
📅 Short Papers: Abs Nov 10, Papers Nov 17
📍 Dubai · Apr 13–17, 2026
👉 www2026.thewebconf.org/impor…
#TheWebConf #CFP
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🚨 Don't miss this amazing opportunity!
The Schmidt Postdoc Award supports Israeli women pursuing postdocs abroad in math, CS, IE, or EE.
💰 $60K/year | 🌍 Top global institutions
📅 Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
🔗 schmidtsciences.org/israeli-…
📝 Apply: easychair.org/conferences/?c…
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📣 📣 The #sigir2025 LiveRAG Challenge is open at:
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/live-…
Prizes:
- First Prize: $5000
- Second Prize: $3000
- Third Prize: $2000
Deadlines:
- Application submission deadline: February 24, 2025
More info? Ask sigir2025-liverag-gen@tii.ae.
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Good luck to all teams and thanks to all the Amazonians involved to facilitate the challenge!
Announced today, ten university teams from around the globe have been selected to participate in the #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge 2—competing for the $500,000 prize by addressing one of the hardest problems in conversational AI.
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Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge announced its top three university teams—which addresses AI challenges through the fusion of multiple AI techniques. Learn more about the winning work from teams' from @UofGlasgow, @FCTNOVA, and @OhioState. #AlexaPrize
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Tune in to #75YearsofACM Panel, “Connecting Everyone Everywhere All the Time” as leaders in the field share their experiences, observations & insights! bit.ly/3NIcmsX
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An honor and true pleasure to join such distinguished panelists today at the ACM 75th anniversary
Join us to learn how Charles Isbell @isbellHFh @GeorgiaTech, @aninddey @UW, @jure Leskovec @Stanford, Yoelle Maarek @Yoellem @amazon, and @duncanjwatts @Penn envision “Connecting Everyone Everywhere All the Time!” bit.ly/3NIcmsX
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In Lyons @lmariaux and I formally sign the legal agreement that reconstitutes IW3C2, the organisation that has managed @TheWebConf for 28 years, so we can hand over the management of the conference to @TheOfficialACM #momentinWebhistory
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Thanks again to Prabhakar Raghavan @WittedNote for an outstanding first keynote address yesterday at @TheWebConf - it was a delight and honor to host you and recognize your unique contributions to the conference series in its first @ACM instance.
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The honor is ours @WittedNote , and having you address this community you helped foster for so many years could not have been at a better time! The year we officially move to ACM. Can't wait to listen to your keynote!
It’s an honor to return to @TheWebConf as a keynote speaker! Looking forward to sharing with and learning from #TheWebConf community… I hope you’ll join us.
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It was a pleasure and privilege @danpelleg what a ride it was!
Well before GDPR, public data dumps from Y!A launched a 1000 research papers. Some of the papers, and some of the data releases, were my team's and mine. And we managed to build+launch several product features
@yuvalpi @alexandernus @elad1 @Yoellem #STGM rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
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