Update app.py

app.py

@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ def get_current_share_url():
 # --- Gradio Interface Setup with Tabs ---
 with gr.Blocks(title="SPLADE Demos", css=css) as demo:
     gr.Markdown("# 🌌 Sparse Encoder Playground") # Updated title
-    gr.Markdown("Explore different SPLADE models and their sparse representation types, and calculate similarity between query and document representations.") # Updated description
+    gr.Markdown("Welcome to the official demo for the ECIR 2026 edition of the tutorial: Neural Lexical Search with Learned Sparse Retrieval (LSR). Explore different SPLADE models and their sparse representation types, and calculate similarity between query and document representations. Note that splade-lexical is used here to illustrate the effects of term weighting; the actual end-to-end implemention does in fact do expansion and weighting on the document side.") # Updated description
 
     with gr.Tabs():
         with gr.TabItem("Sparse Representation"):
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ with gr.Blocks(title="SPLADE Demos", css=css) as demo:
                     input_text = gr.Textbox(
                         lines=5,
                         label="Enter your query or document text here:",
-                        placeholder="e.g., Why is Padua the nicest city in Italy?"
+                        placeholder="e.g., what is Delft well-known for?"
                     )
 
                     # Custom Share Button and URL display
@@ -607,12 +607,12 @@ with gr.Blocks(title="SPLADE Demos", css=css) as demo:
             query_text_input = gr.Textbox(
                 lines=3,
                 label="Enter Query Text:",
-                placeholder="e.g., famous dishes of Padua"
+                placeholder="e.g., famous sites of Delft"
             )
             doc_text_input = gr.Textbox(
                 lines=5,
                 label="Enter Document Text:",
-                placeholder="e.g., Padua's cuisine is as famous as its legendary University."
+                placeholder="e.g., Delft's pottery is as famous as its legendary university."
             )
 
             # --- MODIFIED: Output component as a gr.Markdown with scrolling ---