Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation. Tutorial at SIGIR’25 (together with N. Bernard, S. Zerhoudi, and CX. Zhai). 2025. [website]
Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web. Tutorial at WWW’24 (together with CX. Zhai). 2024. [website]
User Simulation for Evaluating Interactive Intelligent Systems. Tutorial at AAAI’24 (together with CX. Zhai). 2024. [website]
User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems. Tutorial at CIKM’23 (together with CX. Zhai). 2023. [website]
Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation. Tutorial at SIGIR’19 (together with S. Zhang). 2019. [website]
Entity Linking. Half-day tutorial at RUSSIR’16. 2016.
Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice. Tutorial at ECIR’16 (together with A. Schuth). 2016.
Entity Linking and Retrieval for Semantic Search. Tutorial in Montreal organized by Radialpoint Inc. (together with E. Meij and D. Odijk). 2014.
Entity Linking and Retrieval for Semantic Search. Tutorial at WSDM’14 (together with E. Meij and D. Odijk). 2014.
Entity Linking and Retrieval. Tutorial at SIGIR’13 (together with E. Meij and D. Odijk). 2013.
Entity Linking and Retrieval. Tutorial at WWW’13 (together with E. Meij and D. Odijk). 2013.
Semistructured Data Search. Invited lecture at PROMISE Winter School: Bridging between Information Retrieval and Databases. 2013.
Retrieving Entities. Invited lecture at Advanced SIKS-Course: Probabilistic Methods for Entity Resolution and Entity Ranking. 2009.