Saber Zerhoudi

According to our database, Saber Zerhoudi authored at least 52 papers between 2020 and 2026.

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2026

OpenIIR: An Open Simulation Platform for Information Retrieval Research.

Saber Zerhoudi

CoRR, May, 2026

SimEval-IR: A Unified Toolkit and Benchmark Suite for Evaluating User Simulators and Search Sessions.

Saber Zerhoudi

CoRR, April, 2026

NuggetIndex: Governed Atomic Retrieval for Maintainable RAG.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic

CoRR, April, 2026

AgentSim: A Platform for Verifiable Agent-Trace Simulation.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic

CoRR, April, 2026

IIRSim Studio: A Dashboard for User Simulation.

Saber Zerhoudi, Adam Roegiest, Michael Granitzer

CoRR, April, 2026

Form Without Function: Agent Social Behavior in the Moltbook Network.

Saber Zerhoudi, Kanishka Ghosh Dastidar, Felix Klement, Artur Romazanov, Andreas Einwiller, Dang Hai Dang, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Florian Lemmerich, Jelena Mitrovic

CoRR, April, 2026

Behind the Prompt: The Agent-User Problem in Information Retrieval.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Dang Hai Dang, Jelena Mitrovic, Florian Lemmerich, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Kanishka Ghosh Dastidar

CoRR, March, 2026

OwlerLite: Scope- and Freshness-Aware Web Retrieval for LLM Assistants.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, 2026

ReelPeel: Inquiry under Algorithmic Feeds via Hold-to-Enter In-Feed Evidence Inspection.

Alison Durst, Kai Jannsen, Jonas Nils Boerschmann, Johannes Moritz, Rijak Singh Malhotra, Julia von Sommoggy, Jana Rueter, Katharina Sieferle, Saber Zerhoudi, Eva Maria Bitzer

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 2026

Beyond the Click: A Framework for Inferring Cognitive Traces in Search.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2026

Creating Specialized RAG-Based Search Engines Using the Open Web Index.

Alexander Nussbaumer, Michael Dinzinger, Sebastian Heineking, Gijs Hendriksen, Felix Holz, Saber Zerhoudi, Martin Potthast, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2026

The Third International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS).

Laura Caspari, Maik Fröbe, Sebastian Heineking, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Saber Zerhoudi

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2026

The Third Search Futures Workshop at ECIR'26.

Leif Azzopardi, Charles L. A. Clarke, Claudia Hauff, Yubin Kim, Zhaochun Ren, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R. Trippas, Saber Zerhoudi

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2026

Simulation of Interactive Information Retrieval: A Guided Tour.

Saber Zerhoudi, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R. Trippas

Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2026

In-Browser Agents for Search Assistance.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2026

From SERPs to Agents: A Platform for Comparative Studies of Information Interaction.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2026

2025

Report on the Second Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025) at SIGIR 2025.

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

SIGIR Forum, December, 2025

Report on the 2nd Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2025.

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

SIGIR Forum, June, 2025

User Simulation in Interactive Information Retrieval: methods and frameworks for simulating complex search behavior.

Saber Zerhoudi

PhD thesis, 2025

Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Shelf Life of Test Collections.

Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells, Ferdinand Schlatt, Guglielmo Faggioli, Saber Zerhoudi, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025

Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation.

Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard, Saber Zerhoudi, ChengXiang Zhai

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025

The Second International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS).

Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Saber Zerhoudi

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2025

UXSim: Towards a Hybrid User Search Simulation.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2025

SearchLab: Exploring Conversational and Traditional Search Interfaces in Information Retrieval.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2025

2024

Report on the 1st Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024.

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

SIGIR Forum, December, 2024

OWLer URLFrontier.

Michael Dinzinger, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Dataset, September, 2024

OWLer URLFrontier.

Michael Dinzinger, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Dataset, September, 2024

OWLer StormCrawler.

Michael Dinzinger, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Dataset, September, 2024

Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024.

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

SIGIR Forum, June, 2024

Report on the 1st International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS 2024) at ECIR 2024.

Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Saber Zerhoudi

SIGIR Forum, June, 2024

Impact and development of an Open Web Index for open web search.

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

J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., May, 2024

Extracted external domains from Wikipedia dump - 20/03/2024.

Mahmoud Istaiti, Mohammed Al-Maamari, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic

Dataset, April, 2024

A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification (Part 3: Benign 2).

Mohammed Al-Maamari, Mahmoud Istaiti, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic

Dataset, March, 2024

A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification (Part 2: Benign 1).

Mohammed Al-Maamari, Mahmoud Istaiti, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic

Dataset, March, 2024

A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification (Part 1: Adult & Malicious).

Mohammed Al-Maamari, Mahmoud Istaiti, Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer, Jelena Mitrovic

Dataset, March, 2024

Report on the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024.

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

CoRR, 2024

SimIIR 3: A Framework for the Simulation of Interactive and Conversational Information Retrieval.

Leif Azzopardi, Timo Breuer, Björn Engelmann, Christin Kreutz, Sean MacAvaney, David Maxwell, Andrew Parry, Adam Roegiest, Xi Wang, Saber Zerhoudi

Proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, 2024

Cognitive-Aware User Search Behavior Simulation.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2024

PersonaRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems with User-Centric Agents.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the Workshop Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2024) co-located with the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), 2024

Beyond Benchmarks: Evaluating Embedding Model Similarity for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems.

Laura Caspari, Kanishka Ghosh Dastidar, Saber Zerhoudi, Jelena Mitrovic, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the Workshop Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2024) co-located with the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), 2024

Beyond Conventional Metrics: Assessing User Simulators in Information Retrieval.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the 14th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, 2024

Generative Agents Navigating Digital Libraries.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the Sustainability and Empowerment in the Context of Digital Libraries, 2024

Comparative Analysis: User Interactions in Public and Private Digital Libraries Datasets.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 2024

The Open Web Index - Crawling and Indexing the Web for Public Use.

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

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

The First International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS).

Sheikh Mastura Farzana, Maik Fröbe, Michael Granitzer, Gijs Hendriksen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Martin Potthast, Saber Zerhoudi

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

2023

The Open Web Search Crawler (OWLer).

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Dinzinger, Michael Granitzer

Dataset, August, 2023

2022

Simulating User Interaction and Search Behaviour in Digital Libraries.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Christin Seifert, Jörg Schlötterer

Proceedings of the 18th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, 2022

Simulating User Querying Behavior Using Embedding Space Alignment.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 2022

Evaluating Simulated User Interaction and Search Behaviour.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Christin Seifert, Joerg Schloetterer

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2022

The SimIIR 2.0 Framework: User Types, Markov Model-Based Interaction Simulation, and Advanced Query Generation.

Saber Zerhoudi, Sebastian Günther, Kim Plassmeier, Timo Borst, Christin Seifert, Matthias Hagen, Michael Granitzer

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2022

2021

Query Change as a Contextual Markov Model for Simulating User Search Behaviour.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Jörg Schlötterer, Christin Seifert

Proceedings of the FIRE 2021: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Virtual Event, India, December 13, 2021

2020

Improving Intrusion Detection Systems using Zero-Shot Recognition via Graph Embeddings.

Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer, Mathieu Garchery

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, 2020