It’s July, it’s the month of SIGIR, so several publications will come out this month: Mariya Hendriksen, Ernst Kuiper, Pim Nauts, Sebastian Schelter, and Maarten de Rijke. Analyzing and Predicting Purchase Intent in E-commerce: Anonymous vs. Identified Customers. In eCOM 2020: The 2020 SIGIIR Workshop on eCommerce. ACM, July 2020. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{hendriksen-2020-analyzing, author =…
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New publications
Some new papers that are scheduled to come out this month: Maurits Bleeker and Maarten de Rijke. Bidirectional Scene Text Recognition with a Single Decoder. In ECAI 2020: 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 2664–2672. IOS Press, June 2020. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{bleeker-2020-bidirectional, author = {Bleeker, Maurits and de Rijke, Maarten}, booktitle = {ECAI 2020:…
New publications
Some new papers that are scheduled to come out this month: Rolf Jagerman, Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke. Safe Exploration for Optimizing Contextual Bandits. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 38(3):Article 24, June 2020. Bibtex, PDF @article{jagerman-2020-safe, author = {Jagerman, Rolf and Markov, Ilya and de Rijke, Maarten}, date-added = {2019-05-31 20:33:35 +0200}, date-modified =…
A new step
Many short-term actions are needed to help us through the current disruptions. As academics, if we can help to support processes that are important to keep society running, we should all step in. Immediately. But we should also look beyond today and continue to set and pursue long-term goals. Like many of us, I am…
Schiet nou toch eens op. De tijd dringt
Vandaag presenteerde de EU haar “white paper” over AI in Europa. Samenvatting van mijn commentaar: Zet veel duidelijker en veel ambitieuzer in op AI-talent — daar staat of valt alles mee. Waarom geeft de EU de hoop over consumentendata op? Is consumentendata nou niet precies waar je het vertrouwen wint of verliest? Beleidsmakers zijn voor…
Aan de slag!
Morgen, 8 oktober, presenteert VNO-NCW een `Nationale AI Coalitie’. Het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven steekt de komende zeven jaar ruim €1 mrd in kunstmatige intelligentie (AI). Van de overheid wordt ook een flinke bijdrage gevraagd. Het Financieele Dagblad besteedt aandacht aan de verwachte aankondigingen van deze week. Genoeg gepraat. Genoeg gepolderd. Aan de slag.
CIKM 2019 papers online
The papers that my team and I will be presenting at CIKM 2019 are online now:
IJCAI 2019 papers online
Cascading non-stationary bandits: Online learning to rank in the non-stationary cascade model by Chang Li and Maarten de Rijke is online now at this location. In the paper, we argue that non-stationarity appears in many online applications such as web search and advertising. We study the online learning to rank problem in a non-stationary environment where user…
SIGIR 2019 papers online
Here’s our harvest for SIGIR 2019, which is about to get started in less than 24 hours: Joris Baan, Maartje ter Hoeve, Marlies van der Wees, Anne Schuth, and Maarten de Rijke. Do Transformer Attention Heads Provide Transparency in Abstractive Summarization?. In FACTS-IR: SIGIR 2019 Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency and Safety in Information…
UAI 2019 paper on safe online learning to re-rank via implicit click feedback online
BubbleRank: Safe Online Learning to Re-Rank via Implicit Click Feedback by Chang Li, Branislav Kveton, Tor Lattimore, Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke, Csaba Szepesvari, and Masrour Zoghi is online now at this location. In the paper we study the problem of safe on-line learning to re-rank, where user feedback is used to improve the quality of…