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Learning to transform, combine, and reason in open-domain question answering by Mostafa Dehghani, Hosein Azarbonyad, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke is online now at this location. Users seek direct answers to complex questions from large open-domain knowledge sources like the Web. Open-domain question answering has become a critical task to be solved for building systems…

RepeatNet: A Repeat Aware Neural Recommendation Machine for Session-based Recommendation by Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Jing Li, Zhaochun Ren, Jun Ma, and Maarten de Rijke is online now at this location. Recurrent neural networks for session-based recommendation have attracted a lot of attention recently because of their promising performance. Repeat consumption is a common phenomenon in many recommendation…

Dialogue generation: From imitation learning to inverse reinforcement learning by Ziming Li, Julia Kiseleva, and Maarten de Rijke is online now at this location. The performance of adversarial dialogue generation models relies on the quality of the reward signal produced by the discriminator. The reward signal from a poor discriminator can be very sparse and unstable,…

I’m a professor. My job description is very simple: to create new knowledge and to transfer it. To students, colleagues, and anyone else, really. To academia, industry, governments, and the rest of society. I do my job by working with a large team of very talented PhD students and postdocs from around the planet and…