Our CIKM 2014 paper “Time-Sensitive Personalized Query Auto-Completion” by Fei Cai, Shangsong Liang and Maarten de Rijke is online now. Query auto-completion (QAC) is a prominent feature of modern search engines. It is aimed at saving user’s time and enhancing the search experience. Current QAC models mostly rank matching QAC candidates according to their past popularity, i.e.,…
Month: September 2014
One week to go: AMS Data #1: Coffee and Data Science
A week from today, we’ll see the launch of a new Amsterdam Data Science event series: AMS Data: Coffee and Data Science. What is a better way to start your morning than with data and coffee? Amsterdam Data Science is organizing an event on September 25 (9:00 – 12:00pm) to bring the Amsterdam area data science…
CIKM 2014 paper on vertical aware click model-based effectiveness metrics available online
ur CIKM 2014 short paper “Vertical-aware click model-based effectiveness metrics” by Ilya Markov, Eugene Kharitonov, Vadim Nikulin, Pavel Serdyukov, Maarten de Rijke and Fabio Crestani is available now. You can find it online here. Today’s web search systems present users with heterogeneous information coming from sources of different types, also known as verticals. Evaluating such systems…
CIKM 2014 paper on multileaved comparisons for fast online evaluation online
Our CIKM 2014 paper “Multileaved comparisons for fast online evaluation” by Anne Schuth, Floor Sietsma, Shimon Whiteson, Damien Lefortier and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. Evaluation methods for information retrieval systems come in three types: offline evaluation, using static data sets annotated for relevance by human judges; user studies, usually conducted in a lab-based setting;…
Opening Academisch Jaar Ad de Jonge Centrum
Op 17 september open het Ad de Jong Centrum voor Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsstudies het academisch jaar met een openbaar hoorcollege over CONTRA SOCMINT. Zie hier voor de agenda.