We have three full papers at WWW this year. They are all online now: Alexey Borisov, Pavel Serdyukov, and Maarten de Rijke. Using metafeatures to increase the effectiveness of latent semantic models in web search. In WWW 2016: 25th International World Wide Web Conference, page 1081–1091. ACM, April 2016. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{borisov-using-2016, author = {Borisov,…
Month: January 2016
NWO grant on learning to rank for information retrieval
Good news from NWO today. I received a grant from NWO to support two PhD students and a postdoc to work on learning to rank (LTR) for information retrieval. The goal is to lay the foundations for contextual LTR methods, which automatically construct the right ranking features based on the query context. The project will…
Media coverage in Le Monde
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia, French newspaper Le Monde has devoted a full page to Wikipedia, which includes a discussion of the role of Wikipedia in research, especially around semantic search and the knowledge graph. In this setting our work on semantic analysis of microblogs, entity linking, and linking content for…