Saber Zerhoudi

46 papers A* 2A 2B 6Journal 17Unranked 17
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Behind the Prompt: The Agent-User Problem in Information Retrieval.
CoRR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Dang Hai Dang, Jelena Mitrovic, Florian Lemmerich, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Kanishka Ghosh Dastidar
2026 — conf
Beyond the Click: A Framework for Inferring Cognitive Traces in Search.
ECIR (4)
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2026 J jnl
Beyond the Click: A Framework for Inferring Cognitive Traces in Search.
CoRR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2026 — conf
Creating Specialized RAG-Based Search Engines Using the Open Web Index.
ECIR (4)
Alexander Nussbaumer, Michael Dinzinger, Sebastian Heineking, Gijs Hendriksen, Felix Holz, Saber Zerhoudi, Martin Potthast, Michael Granitzer
2026 B conf
From SERPs to Agents: A Platform for Comparative Studies of Information Interaction.
CHIIR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2026 J jnl
From SERPs to Agents: A Platform for Comparative Studies of Information Interaction.
CoRR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2026 J jnl
Generative Agents Navigating Digital Libraries.
CoRR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2026 B conf
In-Browser Agents for Search Assistance.
CHIIR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2026 J jnl
In-Browser Agents for Search Assistance.
CoRR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2026 J jnl
OwlerLite: Scope- and Freshness-Aware Web Retrieval for LLM Assistants.
CoRR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic
2026 B conf
Simulation of Interactive Information Retrieval: A Guided Tour.
CHIIR
Saber Zerhoudi, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R. Trippas
2026 — conf
The Third International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS).
ECIR (3)
Laura Caspari, Maik Fröbe, Sebastian Heineking, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Saber Zerhoudi
2026 — conf
The Third Search Futures Workshop at ECIR'26.
ECIR (3)
Leif Azzopardi, Charles L. A. Clarke, Claudia Hauff, Yubin Kim, Zhaochun Ren, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R. Trippas, Saber Zerhoudi
2026 J jnl
UXSim: Towards a Hybrid User Search Simulation.
CoRR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2025 — ed.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Open Web Search co-located with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, April 10, 2025.
WOWS
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Saber Zerhoudi
2025 J jnl
Report on the 2nd Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2025.
SIGIR Forum
Charles L. A. Clarke, Paul B. Kantor, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R. Trippas, Zhaochun Ren, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Xiao Fu, Yixing Fan, Michael Granitzer, David Graus, Maria Heuss, Jaap Kamps, Yibin Lei, Andrew Parry, Damiaan Reijnaers, Maarten de Rijke, Siddharth A. K. Singh, Yubao Tang, Suzan Verberne, Jonas Wallat, Yumeng Wang, Chen Xu, Andrew Yates, Saber Zerhoudi, Jujia Zhao
2025 J jnl
Report on the Second Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025) at SIGIR 2025.
SIGIR Forum
Philipp Schaer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Krisztian Balog, Timo Breuer, Andreas Kruff, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Christine Bauer, Nolwenn Bernard, Nicola Ferro, Marcel Gohsen, Nurul Lubis, Saber Zerhoudi
2025 B conf
SearchLab: Exploring Conversational and Traditional Search Interfaces in Information Retrieval.
CHIIR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2025 — conf
The Second International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS).
ECIR (5)
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Saber Zerhoudi
2025 A* conf
Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation.
SIGIR
Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard, Saber Zerhoudi, ChengXiang Zhai
2025 A conf
UXSim: Towards a Hybrid User Search Simulation.
CIKM
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2025 A* conf
Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections.
SIGIR
Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Saber Zerhoudi, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang
2025 J jnl
Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections.
CoRR
Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Saber Zerhoudi, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang
2024 — conf
Beyond Benchmarks: Evaluating Embedding Model Similarity for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems.
IR-RAG@SIGIR
Laura Caspari, Kanishka Ghosh Dastidar, Saber Zerhoudi, Jelena Mitrovic, Michael Granitzer
2024 J jnl
Beyond Benchmarks: Evaluating Embedding Model Similarity for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems.
CoRR
Laura Caspari, Kanishka Ghosh Dastidar, Saber Zerhoudi, Jelena Mitrovic, Michael Granitzer
2024 — conf
Beyond Conventional Metrics: Assessing User Simulators in Information Retrieval.
IIR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2024 — conf
Cognitive-Aware User Search Behavior Simulation.
JCDL
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2024 — conf
Comparative Analysis: User Interactions in Public and Private Digital Libraries Datasets.
TPDL (2)
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2024 — conf
Generative Agents Navigating Digital Libraries.
ICADL (1)
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2024 J jnl
Impact and development of an Open Web Index for open web search.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Michael Granitzer, Stefan Voigt, Noor Afshan Fathima, Martin Golasowski, Christian Guetl, Tobias Hecking, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Jan Martinovic, Jelena Mitrovic, Izidor Mlakar, Stavros Moiras, Alexander Nussbaumer, Per Öster, Martin Potthast, Marjana Sencar Srdic, Sharikadze Megi, Katerina Slaninová, Benno Stein, Arjen P. de Vries, Vít Vondrák, Andreas Wagner, Saber Zerhoudi
2024 — conf
PersonaRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems with User-Centric Agents.
IR-RAG@SIGIR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2024 J jnl
PersonaRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems with User-Centric Agents.
CoRR
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2024 — ed.
Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Open Web Search co-located with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 28, 2024.
WOWS@ECIR
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Gijs Hendriksen, Michael Granitzer, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Saber Zerhoudi
2024 J jnl
Report on the 1st International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS 2024) at ECIR 2024.
SIGIR Forum
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Saber Zerhoudi
2024 J jnl
Report on the 1st Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024.
SIGIR Forum
Timo Breuer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Norbert Fuhr, Krisztian Balog, Philipp Schaer, Nolwenn Bernard, Ingo Frommholz, Marcel Gohsen, Kaixin Ji, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jüri Keller, Jiqun Liu, Martin Mladenov, Gabriella Pasi, Johanne R. Trippas, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi, ChengXiang Zhai
2024 J jnl
Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024.
SIGIR Forum
Sean MacAvaney, Adam Roegiest, Aldo Lipani, Andrew Parry, Björn Engelmann, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Chuan Meng, Erlend Frayling, Eugene Yang, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Harrisen Scells, Iana Atanassova, Jana Friese, Janek Bevendorff, Javier Sanz-Cruzado, Johanne R. Trippas, Kanaad Pathak, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Leif Azzopardi, Maik Fröbe, Marc Bertin, Nishchal Prasad, Saber Zerhoudi, Shuai Wang, Shubham Chatterjee, Thomas Jänich, Udo Kruschwitz, Xi Wang, Zijun Long
2024 J jnl
Report on the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024.
CoRR
Timo Breuer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Norbert Fuhr, Krisztian Balog, Philipp Schaer, Nolwenn Bernard, Ingo Frommholz, Marcel Gohsen, Kaixin Ji, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jüri Keller, Jiqun Liu, Martin Mladenov, Gabriella Pasi, Johanne R. Trippas, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi, ChengXiang Zhai
2024 — conf
SimIIR 3: A Framework for the Simulation of Interactive and Conversational Information Retrieval.
SIGIR-AP
Leif Azzopardi, Timo Breuer, Björn Engelmann, Christin Kreutz, Sean MacAvaney, David Maxwell, Andrew Parry, Adam Roegiest, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi
2024 — conf
The First International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS).
ECIR (5)
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Saber Zerhoudi
2024 — conf
The Open Web Index - Crawling and Indexing the Web for Public Use.
ECIR (5)
Gijs Hendriksen, Michael Dinzinger, Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Noor Afshan Fathima, Maik Fröbe, Sebastian Schmidt, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Matthias Hagen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein
2022 — conf
Evaluating Simulated User Interaction and Search Behaviour.
ECIR (2)
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Christin Seifert, Joerg Schloetterer
2022 — conf
Simulating User Interaction and Search Behaviour in Digital Libraries.
IRCDL
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Christin Seifert, Jörg Schlötterer
2022 B conf
Simulating User Querying Behavior Using Embedding Space Alignment.
TPDL
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer
2022 A conf
The SimIIR 2.0 Framework: User Types, Markov Model-Based Interaction Simulation, and Advanced Query Generation.
CIKM
Saber Zerhoudi, Sebastian Günther, Kim Plassmeier, Timo Borst, Christin Seifert, Matthias Hagen, Michael Granitzer
2021 — conf
Query Change as a Contextual Markov Model for Simulating User Search Behaviour.
FIRE
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Jörg Schlötterer, Christin Seifert
2020 B conf
Improving Intrusion Detection Systems using Zero-Shot Recognition via Graph Embeddings.
COMPSAC
Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Mathieu Garchery