We have three full papers at WWW this year. They are all online now: Alexey Borisov, Pavel Serdyukov, and Maarten de Rijke. Using metafeatures to increase the effectiveness of latent semantic models in web search. In WWW 2016: 25th International World Wide Web Conference, page 1081–1091. ACM, April 2016. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{borisov-using-2016, author = {Borisov,…
NWO grant on learning to rank for information retrieval
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…
Media coverage in Le Monde
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia, French newspaper Le Monde has devoted a full page to Wikipedia, which includes a discussion of the role of Wikipedia in research, especially around semantic search and the knowledge graph. In this setting our work on semantic analysis of microblogs, entity linking, and linking content for…
Nikos Voskarides wins 2014/2015 STIL Thesis Award
Congratulations to my PhD student Nikos Voskarides for winning the 2014/2015 STIL Thesis Award for his MSc thesis “Explaining relationships between entities.” The prize was awarded on December 18, 2015, at CLIN-26 in Amsterdam. His MSc thesis was supervised by Edgar Meij and Manos Tsagkias.
WSDM 2016 paper on dynamic collective entity representations for entity ranking online
The following WSDM 2016 paper is online now: David Graus, Manos Tsagkias, Wouter Weerkamp, Edgar Meij, and Maarten de Rijke. Learning dynamic collective entity representations for entity ranking. In WSDM 2016: The 9th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, page 595–604. ACM, February 2016. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{graus-dynamic-2016, author = {Graus, David and Tsagkias,…
Three full papers accepted at WWW 2016
Good news. Three full papers were accepted at the 25th Word Wide Web Conference: Alexey Borisov, Pavel Serdyukov and Maarten de Rijke: Using Metafeatures to Increase the Effectiveness of Latent Semantic Models in Web Search Alexey Borisov, Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke and Pavel Serdyukov: A Distributed Representation Approach to Modeling User Browsing Behavior in…
NIPS workshop paper on sources of variability in large-scale machine learning experiments online
Our contribution to the NIPS LearningSys 2015 Workshop on Machine Leaning Systems by Damien Lefortier, Anthony Truchet and Maarten de Rijke is available online now: Damien Lefortier, Anthony Truchet, and Maarten de Rijke. Sources of variability in large-scale machine learning systems. In NIPS LearningSys 2015 Workshop on Machine Learning Systems, December 2015. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{lefortier-sources-2015,…
NIPS paper on Copeland Dueling Bandits online
Our NIPS 2015 paper “Copeland Dueling Bandits” by Masrour Zoghi, Zohar Karnin, Shimon Whiteson and Maarten de Rijke is available online now: Masrour Zoghi, Shimon Whiteson, Zohar Karnin, and Maarten de Rijke. Copeland dueling bandits. In NIPS 2015, page 307–315, December 2015. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{zoghi-copeland-2015, author = {Zoghi, Masrour and Whiteson, Shimon and Karnin, Zohar…
Tutorial on Click Models for Web Search and their Applications accepted at WSDM 2016
Our tutorial on “Click Models for Web Search and their Applications to IR”, with Aleksandr Chuklin and Ilya Markov has been accepted at WSDM 2016, in San Francisco. This will be an updated version of the tutorials we presented at SIGIR 2015, in Santiago, Chile, and at AINL-ISMW 2015 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
WSDM 2016 paper on Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank online
One of our WSDM 2016 papers is online now: Anne Schuth, Harrie Oosterhuis, Shimon Whiteson, and Maarten de Rijke. Multileave gradient descent for fast online learning to rank. In WSDM 2016: The 9th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, page 457–466. ACM, February 2016. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{schuth-multileave-2016, author = {Schuth, Anne and Oosterhuis,…