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User Simulation

SimIIR & UXSim

CIKM 2025

Testing search systems with real users is slow and expensive. These frameworks let you run thousands of search sessions with synthetic users instead, from rule-based models to LLM-powered agents.

CIKM 2025Python
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Open Web Infrastructure

The Open Web Index

ECIR 2024

Web search today depends on indexes owned by a handful of companies. This project builds a transparent, public alternative, from the crawling infrastructure to the dashboard that makes it inspectable.

ECIR 2024StormCrawler
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