Mert Yazan
PhD candidate / self funded
- Name
- M. Yazan
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- m.yazan@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0004-3866-597X
Mert started as a PhD student in February 2023 under the supervision of Suzan Verberne and Frederik Situmeang (HvA). His research focuses on creating conversational agents that are adaptable to consumer psychology in low-resource domains. Mert has a BSc in Computer Engineering and MSc in Computer Vision.
PhD candidate / self funded
- Faculty of Science
- Leiden Inst of Advanced Computer Science
- Xiao R., Yazan M. & Situmeang F. (2025), Rethinking conversation styles of chatbots from the customer perspective: relationships between conversation styles of chatbots, chatbot acceptance, perceived tie strength, and perceived risk, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 41(2): 1343-1363.
- Yazan M., Verberne S. & Situmeang F. (2025), Improving RAG for Personalization with Author Features and Contrastive Examples. Hauff C., Macdonald C., Jannach D., Kazai G., Nardini F.M., Pinelli F., Silvestri F. & Tonellotto N. (Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2025. 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025 6 April 2025 - 10 April 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 15574. Cham: Springer . 408-416.
- Yazan M. (2025), User-Adaptive Personalized Chatbots for Conversational Information Seeking Tasks. Buchanan G., Liu H., McKay D. & Oard D. (Eds.), CHIIR '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. CHIIR '25: 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval 24 March 2025 - 28 March 2025. New York, U.S.A.: Association for Computing Machinery. 419-423.
- Yazan M., Verberne S. & Situmeang F. (2024), The impact of quantization on retrieval-augmented generation: an analysis of small LLMs. Petroni F., Siciliano F., Silvestri F. & Trappolini G. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2024). Workshop Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2024) 18 July 2024 - 18 July 2024. CEUR Workshop Proceedings no. 3784: CEUR. 77-81.