Congratulations to my PhD student Nikos Voskarides for winning the 2014/2015 STIL Thesis Award for his MSc thesis “Explaining relationships between entities.” The prize was awarded on December 18, 2015, at CLIN-26 in Amsterdam. His MSc thesis was supervised by Edgar Meij and Manos Tsagkias.
Month: December 2015
WSDM 2016 paper on dynamic collective entity representations for entity ranking online
The following WSDM 2016 paper is online now: Entity ranking, i.e., successfully positioning a relevant entity at the top of the ranking for a given query, is inherently difficult due to the potential mismatch between the entity’s description in a knowledge base, and the way people refer to the entity when searching for it. To…
Three full papers accepted at WWW 2016
Good news. Three full papers were accepted at the 25th Word Wide Web Conference: Alexey Borisov, Pavel Serdyukov and Maarten de Rijke: Using Metafeatures to Increase the Effectiveness of Latent Semantic Models in Web Search Alexey Borisov, Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke and Pavel Serdyukov: A Distributed Representation Approach to Modeling User Browsing Behavior in…
NIPS workshop paper on sources of variability in large-scale machine learning experiments online
Our contribution to the NIPS LearningSys 2015 Workshop on Machine Leaning Systems by Damien Lefortier, Anthony Truchet and Maarten de Rijke is available online now: We investigate sources of variability of a state-of-the-art distributed machine learning system for learning click and conversion prediction models for display advertising. We focus on three main sources of variability:…