Month: March 2019

SIGIR 2019 will host a workshop to explore challenges in responsible information retrieval system development and deployment. The focus will be on determining actionable research agendas on five key dimensions of responsible information retrieval: fairness, accountability, confidentiality, transparency, and safety. Rather than just a mini-conference, this workshop will be an event during which participants will…

Harrie Oosterhuis has written an accessible summary of our recent work on pairwise differentiable gradient descent (PDGD), an online learning to rank method that he published at CIKM 2018, with a follow-up paper to come at ECIR 2019 in April. With the introduction of the PDGD algorithm, ranking systems can now be optimized from user…