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On November 24, 2024 our daughter Emma passed away at the age of 27. She had suffered from epilepsy for over 12 years. We have set up a collection box in her memory. Please give generously to help advance research into epilepsy and to help provide support to epilepsy patients and their loved ones. We…

SIGIR 2024 will host a workshop to explore challenges in information retrieval system development to help understand climate impact. The evidence base for observed climate impacts is expanding, and the wider climate literature is growing exponentially. Systematic reviews and systematic maps offer structured ways to collectively identify and describe this evidence while maintaining transparency, attempting…

Since generative AI entered into the public sphere, about a year ago, developments have been rapid on the other side of the ocean – with everything that entails. Can the Netherlands lead the way to develop AI based on European values? Read this opinion piece by Max Welling, Cees Snoek, and Maarten de Rijke in…

Come and join us to work on algorithmic solutions to challenges in conversational intelligence! We invite applications for two fully-funded, four-year PhD positions on conversational AI. One position is aimed at making neural networks for conversational agents more efficient, and the second is aimed at generating synthetic data for training conversational agents. To find out…

Andrew Yates and I are looking for a postdoc or PhD student to join us on the FINDHR project. Algorithmic hiring is on the rise and rapidly becoming necessary in some sectors, yet the systems for algorithmic hiring run the risk of reproducing and amplifying discriminatory biases. FINDHR is an interdisciplinary EU project that seeks…

SIGIR eCom is a full day hybrid workshop taking place on Friday, July 15, 2022 in conjunction with SIGIR 2022. The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce serves as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval and NLP research & their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers…

Here’s an update of recent and upcoming publications: Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, Mohamed Yahya, Edgar Meij, Sebastian Schelter, and Maarten de Rijke. Understanding Financial Information Seeking Behavior from User Interactions with Company Filings. In The 2nd Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web (FinWeb). ACM, April 2022. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{ariannezhad-2022-understanding, author = {Ariannezhad, Mozhdeh and Yahya, Mohamed…

Papers about to be published this month: Wanyu Chen, Pengjie Ren, Fei Cai, Fei Sun, and Maarten de Rijke. Multi-interest Diversification for End-to-end Sequential Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(1):Article 20, January 2022. Bibtex, PDF @article{chen-2022-multi-interest, author = {Chen, Wanyu and Ren, Pengjie and Cai, Fei and Sun, Fei and de Rijke, Maarten}, date-added…