“Inside the world’s playlist” by Wouter Weerkamp, Manos Tsagkias and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. In the paper we describe Streamwatchr, a real-time system for analyzing the music listening behavior of people around the world. Streamwatchr collects music-related tweets, extracts artists and songs, and visualizes the results in three ways: (i) currently trending songs and…
Month: August 2013
Living Labs’13 paper on Lerot, an online learning to rank framework, online
“Lerot: An online learning to rank framework” by Anne Schuth, Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research), Shimon Whiteson and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. Online learning to rank methods for IR allow retrieval systems to optimize their own performance directly from interactions with users via click feedback. In the software package Lerot, presented in this paper, we…
CIKM 2013 paper on evaluating search using interleaving online
“Evaluating aggregated search using interleaving” by Aleksandr Chuklin (Google), Anne Schuth, Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research), Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex) and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. A result page of a modern web search engine is often much more complicated than a simple list of “ten blue links.” In particular, a search engine may combine results from…