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…
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Postdoc/PhD Student Position in Fairness-Aware Learning to Rank for Algorithmic Hiring
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
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…
Publications update
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…
New publications
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…
Materials for tutorial on conversational recommendation
Materials to accompany the RecSys 2021 tutorial on conversational recommendation presented by Chongming Gao, Wenqiang Lei and myself are available now: Slides: Chongming Gao, Wenqiang Lei, Maarten de Rijke. RecSys 2021 Tutorial on Conversational Recommendation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation, Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021). PDF Survey: Chongming Gao, Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He,…
New publications
New publications that are scheduled to appear this month: Wanyu Chen, Pengjie Ren, Fei Cai, Fei Sun, and Maarten de Rijke. Improving End-to-End Sequential Recommendations with Intent-aware Diversification. In CIKM 2020: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, page 175–184. ACM, October 2020. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{chen-2020-improving, author = {Chen, Wanyu and Ren, Pengjie…
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.
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…