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…
Category: Grants
NWO grant: Searching research data
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…
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…
CLARIAH 12M Euro Grant
NWO has awarded 12M Euro to CLARIAH, a project to build a digital infrastructure for software, data, enrichment, search and analytics in the humanities. Frank van Harmelen, Cees Snoek and myself are the computer scientists that are part of the core team of the project. See http://clariah.nl/, http://bit.ly/TERNC0, http://bit.ly/1mWtnje for more details.
HPC grant
My colleague Lars Buitinck and I received a grant from the HPC fund to support the development of a more scalable version of xTAS, our extensible text analysis service. It’s the pipeline that we (and others) use for our text mining work. This is great news as it allows us to port modules to the…
Microsoft PhD Fellowship
For a proposal entitled “Leveraging Data Reuse for Efficient Ranker Evaluation in Information Retrieval”, my colleague Shimon Whiteson and I received funding. The proposal was submitted to the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme. The project is a collaboration with Filip Radlinksi and will run for three years, with a start planned in the fall. We’ll…