Our tutorial on “Click Models for Web Search and their Applications to IR”, with Aleksandr Chuklin and Ilya Markov has been accepted at WSDM 2016, in San Francisco. This will be an updated version of the tutorials we presented at SIGIR 2015, in Santiago, Chile, and at AINL-ISMW 2015 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Month: October 2015
WSDM 2016 paper on Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank online
One of our WSDM 2016 papers is online now: Modern search systems are based on dozens or even hundreds of ranking features. The dueling bandit gradient descent (DBGD) algorithm has been shown to effectively learn combinations of these features solely from user interactions. DBGD explores the search space by comparing a possibly improved ranker to…
NWO grant: Searching research data
Good news from NWO today. Frank van Harmelen (VUA), Sally Wyatt (KNAW), Andrea Scharnhorst (KNAW), Paul Groth (Elsevier), Anita de Waard (Elsevier) and I obtained an NWO Creative Industries grant to work on search technology for research data sets. The project will fund three PhD students and combine search with knowledge representation and user studies…
Daan Odijk wins CIKM 2015 best student paper award
Congratulations to my PhD student Daan Odijk for winning the CIKM 2015 best student paper award for his paper “Struggling and Success in Web Search’. This full paper is the result of Daan’s internship at Microsoft Research in Redmond in 2014. In this joint paper by Daan Odijk, Ryen White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah and Susan…