Maik Fröbe

maik-froebe.bsky.social

26 March 2026 11:26

I am happy to share that I defended my PhD thesis this week. I want to thank all the people I collaborated with and met at conferences and workshops over the years! Especially a big thank you to my PhD supervisor, Matthias Hagen, and to Laura Dietz and Udo Kruschwitz for reviewing my thesis.

Alexander Doria

dorialexander.bsky.social

27 October 2025 16:20

Release of German Commons that started as a linguistic spin-off from Common Corpus and sharing the same philosophy of fully releasable and reproducible data. huggingface.co/datasets/cor...

Webis Group

webis.de

27 October 2025 13:22

We just released "German Commons", the largest openly-licensed German text dataset for LLM training: 154B tokens with clear usage rights for research and commercial use. huggingface.co/datasets/coral-nlp/german-commons

Maik Fröbe

maik-froebe.bsky.social

06 August 2025 08:59

Here are some impressions from our ReNeuIR workshop on "Reaching Efficiency in Neural IR" that we had yesterday at #SIGIR2025.

Webis Group

webis.de

17 July 2025 10:06

Happy to share that our paper "The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation" received the Best Paper Honourable Mention at #SIGIR2025! Very grateful to the community for recognizing our work on improving RAG evaluation.  📄 webis.de/publications...