Emine Yilmaz
Professor of Computer Science
Leads the Web Intelligence Group, researching information retrieval, search evaluation and conversational systems.
Emine Yilmaz's lab at UCL works on knowledge, QA & retrieval, interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs and recommendation, search & web. 45 papers since 2023, 24 at top venues, mostly ACL and Findings of ACL. 7 PhD students. 6 alumni, most often to Amazon and Microsoft.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 12/ year
- at T1 venues
- 53%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 6
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 10
- 11 papers2024 · T1 4
- 12 papers2023 · T1 7
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, Findings of ACL, SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval11 papers
- conversational10 papers
- Recommendation, search & web9 papers
- Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs6 papers
- web0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20266 papers
- LaCATODA@AAAIAdaptive Multi-Agent Response Refinement in Conversational Systems (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)AgentSearch: Indexing, Retrieval, and Ranking of AI Agents (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLBeyond Static Toolsets: Self-Evolving LLM Tool Agents via Continual Documentation Adaptation (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Mitigating Context Interference for Reliable and Efficient Search Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLTowards Self-Improving Error Diagnosis in Multi-Agent Systems (opens in a new tab)
202516 papers
- Findings of ACLA Joint Optimization Framework for Enhancing Efficiency of Tool Utilization in LLM Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of NAACLAdaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Conversational Systems (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Bridging the Gap: From Ad-hoc to Proactive Search in Conversations (opens in a new tab)
- CIKM (T1)Empirical Analysis on User Profile in Personalized LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- BioNLP@ACLError Detection in Medical Note through Multi Agent Debate (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)EventRAG: Enhancing LLM Generation with Event Knowledge Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Recomm. Syst.Introduction to the Special Issue on Trustworthy Recommender Systems (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)JudgeBlender: Ensembling Automatic Relevance Judgments (opens in a new tab)
- ECIRKEIR @ ECIR 2025: The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR (opens in a new tab)
- WSDM (T1)LLM4Eval@WSDM 2025: Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Machine-generated text detection prevents language model collapse (opens in a new tab)
202411 papers
- AAAI (T1)A Toolbox for Modelling Engagement with Educational Videos (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Benchmarking LLMs via Uncertainty Quantification (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLClarifying the Path to User Satisfaction: An Investigation into Clarification Usefulness (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Instruction Tuning With Loss Over Instructions (opens in a new tab)
- ECIRKEIR @ ECIR 2024: The First Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- LLM4Eval@SIGIRLLMJudge: LLMs for Relevance Judgments (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR ForumReport on the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) at SIGIR 2024 (opens in a new tab)
- ECIRSimulated Task Oriented Dialogues for Developing Versatile Conversational Agents (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. WebSpecial Issue on Conversational Information Seeking (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Synthetic Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- AIED CompanionTowards Human-Like Educational Question Generation with Small Language Models (opens in a new tab)
202312 papers
- ACL (T1)A Survey on Asking Clarification Questions Datasets in Conversational Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPEnhancing Conversational Search: Large Language Model-Aided Informative Query Rewriting (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPImproving Conversational Recommendation Systems via Bias Analysis and Language-Model-Enhanced Data Augmentation (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Modeling User Satisfaction Dynamics in Dialogue via Hawkes Process (opens in a new tab)
- CIKM (T1)On the Reliability of User Feedback for Evaluating the Quality of Conversational Agents (opens in a new tab)
- TRECOverview of the TREC 2023 Deep Learning Track (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Pre-training with Scientific Text Improves Educational Question Generation (Student Abstract) (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Query-specific Variable Depth Pooling via Query Performance Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLRethinking Semi-supervised Learning with Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- AIEDScalable Educational Question Generation with Pre-trained Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Schema-Guided User Satisfaction Modeling for Task-Oriented Dialogues (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Task2KB: A Public Task-Oriented Knowledge Base (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went6 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 2Academia 2
Most often to
- Amazon
- Microsoft
Also to
- UCL
- Zhejiang University
Apply to UCLFall 2027
Not announced yet
Computer Science MPhil/PhD
- Round
- Main
- Opens
- —
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- See program page
- Fee
- See program page
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
Similar labsnearest by research summary
- CNTsinghua
Juanzi Li
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval
- USGeorgia Tech
Chao Zhang
- Large language models
- CNZhejiang
Ningyu Zhang
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval
- HKCUHK
Kam-Fai Wong
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval
- USNYU
Robert Krueger
- Human-AI collaboration & trust
- USUCSD
Alex Warstadt
- Large language models
Your notes
Save this lab to keep notes.
Data
Checked against the lab homepage.
- Collected
- Verified
- Papers
- DBLP
- Members
- Lab homepage
- Alumni
- Lab homepage
Tiers are venue classifications, not lab rankings.