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…
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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…
CIKM 2015 papers online
Two contributions to CIKM 2015 are online now: Tom Kenter and Maarten de Rijke. Short text similarity with word embeddings. In CIKM 2015: 24th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. ACM, October 2015. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{kenter-short-2015, author = {Kenter, Tom and de Rijke, Maarten}, booktitle = {CIKM 2015: 24th ACM Conference on Information and…
Survey on Click Models for Web Search online
I’m very happy that Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov and I have finished our survey on click models for web search: Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke. Click Models for Web Search. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, August 2015. Bibtex, DOI, URL @book{chuklin-click-2015, Author = {Chuklin, Aleksandr…
CLEF 2015 paper online
Our CLEF 2015 paper on evaluating click models for web search is online now: Artem Grotov, Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov, Luka Stout, Finde Xumara, and Maarten de Rijke. A comparative study of click models for web search. In CLEF 2015. Springer, September 2015. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{grotov-comparative-2015, author = {Grotov, Artem and Chuklin, Aleksandr and Markov,…
WSDM 2017 will be held in Cambridge, UK
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research Cambridge) and I put in a bid to host WSDM 2017 in Cambridge, UK. It is official now: WSDM 2017 will be held in Cambridge, UK, in February 2017. Details on deadlines and committees will follow in due course.
“Copeland Dueling Bandits” on arXiv
We have filed a preprint on Copeland dueling bandits on ArXiv: Masrour Zoghi, Zohar Karnin, Shimon Whiteson, and Maarten de Rijke. Copeland dueling bandits. arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00312, June 2015. Bibtex, PDF, URL @misc{zoghi-copeland-arxiv-2015, author = {Zoghi, Masrour and Karnin, Zohar and Whiteson, Shimon and de Rijke, Maarten}, date-added = {2015-06-02 05:06:52 +0000}, date-modified = {2018-08-07…
ACL 2015 paper online
“Learning to Explain Entity Relationships in Knowledge Graphs,” an upcoming ACL 2015 paper by Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke and Wouter Weerkamp, is available online now. In the paper we study the problem of explaining relationships between pairs of knowledge graph entities with human-readable descriptions. Our method extracts and enriches sentences…
SIGIR 2015 contributions online
Our contributions to SIGIR 2015 are online now: Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke. An introduction to click models for web search. In SIGIR 2015: 38th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, page 1113–1115. ACM, August 2015. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{chuklin-introduction-2015, author = {Chuklin, Aleksandr and Markov, Ilya and…
DESI VI paper on semantic search for e-discovery online
“Who is Involved? Semantic Search for E-Discovery,” a synthesis of some of our recent e-discovery related work, by David van Dijk, David Graus, Zhaochun Ren, Hans Henseler and Maarten de Rijke will be presented at the ICAIL 2015 Workshop on Using Machine Learning and Other Advanced Techniques to Address Legal Problems in E-Discovery and Information…