We’re looking for a strong candidate for a fully funded four-year PhD position on a collaborative project with Microsoft Research Cambridge. The research will focus on the development of new algorithms for leveraging data reuse in order to efficiently evaluate and optimize the behavior of information retrieval systems. See this page for the advertisement, further requirements, and…
Month: February 2015
NWO grant: MediaNow project on narrative search engines
José van Dijck, Johan Oomen and I obtained an NWO Creative Industries grant to work on next generation search engine technologies for for exploring large multimedia archives. The target users are media-professionals. The proposed innovations at the interface of computer science and media studies come in three kinds. First, we will develop, test and release…
ACM TOIS paper on a comparative analysis of interleaving methods for aggregated search online
Our ACM Transactions on Information Systems paper called “A comparative analysis of interleaving methods for aggregated search” by Aleksandr Chuklin, Anne Schuth, Ke Zhou and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. A result page of a modern search engine often goes beyond a simple list of “ten blue links.” Many specific user needs (e.g., News, Image,…