Invited Talks

Keynote Speeches

  • Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2013 – Valencia, Spain. September 2013. Comparative Evaluation Redux, or: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Variance.

Invited Talks

  • Search Engines Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2015. Reasoning about Entity-centric Events.
  • UNED, Madrid, Spain, February 2015. Simulations for IR Experimentation.
  • IBM Research, New York, USA, August 2014. Simulations for IR Experimentation.
  • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2014. Research in Information Retrieval.
  • University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, January 2014. Simulations for IR Experimentation.
  • Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. November 2013. Incorporating Users Behavior in Search Quality Evaluation.
  • University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland. April 2013. On IR Experimentation.
  • Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. February 2013. Research in Information Retrieval.
  • City University London, London, UK. December 2012. Research in Information Retrieval.
  • University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. May 2012. Information Retrieval Research.
  • Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK. March 2012. Information Retrieval: The Search Engine Development Cycle.
  • Sehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. December 2011. Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems.
  • Google, Zurich, Switzerland. November 2011. Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems.
  • Yandex, Moscow, Russia. August 2011. Evaluating Multi-Query Sessions.
  • Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey. August 2011. Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems.
  • Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. April 2011. Modeling and Evaluating Information Retrieval Results.
  • Microsoft Research, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. April 2011. Modeling and Evaluating Information Retrieval Results.
  • Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. December 2010. Building Effective, Low-Cost Test and Training Collections in IR.
  • Akamai, Boston, USA. November 2010. Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems.
  • Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey. December 2010. Building Effective, Low-Cost Test and Training Collections in IR.
  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. June 2010. Modeling Score Distributions : Assumptions, Intuition and Empirical Justification.
  • University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. February 2010. Modeling Score Distributions : Assumptions, Intuition and Empirical Justification.
  • Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. December 2009. Building Reliable Test and Training Collections in IR.