We’ve published a web site devoted to our upcoming SIGIR 2015 tutorials on click models for web search. Please see http://clickmodels.weebly.com/sigir-2015-tutorials.html for details and the key topics covered in each of the two tutorials.
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SIGIR 2015 tutorials on click models
Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov and I will be teaching an introductory and advanced tutorial on click models for web search at SIGIR 2015, on August 10, 2015. The tutorial is based on a forthcoming book on click models for web search. Participants will have access to the book, slides, as well as code used for…
ICWSM 2015 paper on determining the presence of political parties in social circles online
“Determining the Presence of Political Parties in Social Circles” by Christophe Van Gysel, Bart Goethals and Maarten de Rijke is available online. In the paper, we derive the political climate of the social circles of Twitter users using a weakly-supervised approach. By applying random walks over a sub-sample of Twitter’s social graph we infer a…
CfP: 1st Workshop on User Modeling in Heterogeneous Search Environments (HetUM 2015) in conjunction with CIKM 2015
1st Workshop on User Modeling in Heterogeneous Search Environments (HetUM 2015) in conjunction with CIKM 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS https://sites.google.com/site/hetum2015/ 19 October 2015, Melbourne, Australia IMPORTANT DATES Regular paper submission: 19 June 2015 Special track for re-submissions of CIKM papers: 8 July 2015 Notification of acceptance: 23 July 2015 Camera ready: 7 August 2015 Workshop:…
We’re hiring: 14 vacancies for postdocs/PhD students
We’re hiring: Amsterdam Data Science has 14 vacancies for postdoctoral researchers/PhD candidates. See http://bit.ly/1FHRNof.
We’re hiring: Fully funded PhD student and two postdocs
We’re looking for three strong candidates for a fully funded PhD student position in information retrieval, a three-year postdoc position in information retrieval, and a three-year postdoc position in media studies. This is a collaborative project, called MediaNow, between the Informatics Institute and Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands…
Fully funded PhD position in machine learning for information retrieval
We’re looking for a strong candidate for a fully funded four-year PhD position on a collaborative project with Microsoft Research Cambridge. The research will focus on the development of new algorithms for leveraging data reuse in order to efficiently evaluate and optimize the behavior of information retrieval systems. See this page for the advertisement, further requirements, and…
NWO grant: MediaNow project on narrative search engines
José van Dijck, Johan Oomen and I obtained an NWO Creative Industries grant to work on next generation search engine technologies for for exploring large multimedia archives. The target users are media-professionals. The proposed innovations at the interface of computer science and media studies come in three kinds. First, we will develop, test and release…
ACM TOIS paper on a comparative analysis of interleaving methods for aggregated search online
Our ACM Transactions on Information Systems paper called “A comparative analysis of interleaving methods for aggregated search” by Aleksandr Chuklin, Anne Schuth, Ke Zhou and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. A result page of a modern search engine often goes beyond a simple list of “ten blue links.” Many specific user needs (e.g., News, Image,…
IPM paper on burst-aware data fusion for microblog search online
An Information Processing & Management paper on burst-aware data fusion for microblog search by Shangsong Liang and Maarten de Rijke is online now. We consider the problem of searching posts in microblog environments. We frame this microblog post search problem as a late data fusion problem. Previous work on data fusion has mainly focused on aggregating…